English Language Arts Grade 9-10
Lesson Plans

Reading: Informational Text Standard 1

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

• "Just the Facts, Ma'am": Evaluating Sources
  

  In the Library Learning Center, students will learn searching strategies to find valid and relevant articles in EBSCO, Gale and Google Scholar.

  • Using the 5 Ws of website evaluation (Who, What, When, Where and Why), students will evaluate 7 websites and complete a Website Evaluation graphic organizer.
  • Students will be given 8 resources about a common current event topic (in our case, the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union), and are required to evaluate and rank the websites according to credibility and write a short defense of the ranking. (The sources used are from Wikipedia, EBSCO, Google Scholar, Gale, Newspapers, Blog Posts).

  Note: This assignment is part of a weekly exercise done every Friday in an AP class.

• Analyzing Informational Text
  Students use the Informational Text Analysis Tool to deconstruct the essential elements of informational text.
• Analyzing Visual Text
  Students individually consider a visual text and draw conclusions based on what they see. They write about their conclusions and explain the evidence used to make that determination.
• Incorporating Informational Text: Article of the Week
  Students build their knowledge base and learn to read and summarize informational texts.
• SOAPSTone Analysis
  Students use a simple SOAPSTone form (College Board resource) to analyze six aspects of informational texts: subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, and tone.

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