Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Strategies to evaluate the structure and organization of various texts.
- Authors choose to write in different genres to support their purpose for writing.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify and evaluate structural and organizational details in texts from multiple genres.
- Determine how the genre of a text supports the author's purpose.
- Identify irony and satire in text.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are a variety of genres of text, and authors choose to write in a particular genre to support their purpose for writing.
- Different genres of text have different structures and organizations.
- Authors may choose to include implicit messages within their text, such as irony or satire.
Vocabulary
- Evaluate
- Structural details
- Organizational details
- Purpose
- Ironic
- Satirical
