Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Authors make specific rhetorical choices in their writing to convey meaning.
- Rhetorical devices include point of view, purpose, personal anecdotes, and word choice.
- Authors develop the main idea of the text by including supporting details to further elaborate on the text's central meaning.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify an author's rhetorical choices related to point of view, purpose, anecdotes, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings.
- Explain why an author made particular rhetorical choices related to point of view, purpose, anecdotes, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings.
- Explain how an author's rhetorical choices developed the central and supporting ideas of the text.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- When writing a text, authors make specific decisions about the structure, format, and vocabulary to accurately convey their central idea.
Vocabulary
- Rhetorical choices
- Point of view
- Purpose
- Anecdotes
- Figurative word meaning
- Connotative word meaning
- Technical word meaning
- Central idea
- Supporting idea
