Informational Writing Unit: Central Idea and Group Reading + Writing

Description

Authors:

Andrea Chorney, K–12 Educator

Elisa M Yzaguirre, K–12 Educator

Learning Goals:

Learners will:

• preview texts to identify repeated subtopics
• continue to build background knowledge around activism
• examine implicit and explicit ways systems oppress groups of people.
• know how past and present movements and people have challenged systems of oppression.
• determine possible central ideas

Learners will do this by:

watching and reflecting on a short video

• reading, annotating, discussing and taking notes on a nonfiction text using reading roles
  writing a paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting details, analysis and elaboration around activism.