Grade 9, Unit 1 Whole-Class Learning Title and Author Genre Analyze Craft and Concept / Media Word Study Conventions Writing to Speaking and Structure Vocabulary or Author’s Sources Listening Style A of a Country Essay Author’s Purpose: Words expressing unity Prefixes: Author’s Anna Quindlen Purpose and and fragmentation: dis- Style: Rhetoric disparate Word Choice discordant Vivid Rhetoric pluralistic language Analogy interwoven diversity coalescing Standards RI.9–10.10 L.9–10.4.b RI.9-10.4 RI.9–10.5 RI.9–10.6 The Immigrant Contribution Essay Author’s Purpose: Words related to Latin Root -nat- Conventions: from A Nation of Immigrants Purpose and populations and group Sentence John F. Kennedy Persuasion identities: Structure descendants Persuasive stock appeals naturalization minority faction assimilation clause Standards RI.9–10.1 L.9–10.4.b L.9–10.1.b RI.9–10.5 RI.9–10.6 Writing to Compare Essay
Grade 9, Unit 1 Whole-Class Learning Title and Author Genre Analyze Craft and Structure Concept / Media Vocabulary Word Study Conventions or Author’s Style Writing to Sources Speaking and Listening A of a Country Anna Quindlen Essay Author’s Purpose: Purpose and Rhetoric Rhetoric Analogy Words expressing unity and fragmentation: disparate discordant pluralistic interwoven diversity coalescing Prefixes: dis- Author’s Style: Word Choice Vivid language Standards RI.9–10.10 RI.9–10.5 RI.9–10.6 L.9–10.4.b RI.9-10.4 The Immigrant Contribution from A Nation of Immigrants John F. Kennedy Essay Author’s Purpose: Purpose and Persuasion Persuasive appeals Words related to populations and group identities: descendants stock naturalization minority faction assimilation Latin Root -nat- Conventions: Sentence Structure clause Standards RI.9–10.1 RI.9–10.5 RI.9–10.6 L.9–10.4.b L.9–10.1.b Writing to Compare Essay