What Influences My Choices? Lesson 2.1

Learning Targets (p.88) Today in class, I will… ◦ Preview the main ideas and vocabulary for Unit 2. ◦ Identify a Wow (excited about) and an Oh No (worried about) within Unit 2. ◦ Identify text features in informational texts.

Essential Questions Use the Think-Pair-Share strategy to answer the essential questions. ◦ What role does advertising play in the lives of youth? ◦ What makes an effective argument?

Unpacking Unit Individually, skim and scan Unit 2 on pages What activities/assignments are you excited for in Unit 2? What activities/assignments are you worried about in Unit 2? Each student will receive two post-its. Title one post-it: Wow and the other post-it: Oh No.

Unpacking Unit Based on what you see within the unit, write one thing you are excited about (Wow) and one thing you are worried about (Oh No). Stick your post-its in the correct column on the Unit 2 poster, and we will discuss your observations as a class.

Text Features Text features are intended to help you navigate informational texts and understand non-fiction. Text features can be divided into three categories: organizational, print, and graphics.

Examples Organizational: table of contents, index, glossary, atlas, appendix. Print: titles, headings, subheadings, bold, italics, underlined, highlighted words, bullets, captions. Graphics: illustrations, maps, charts, graphs, timelines.

Review & Practice Text Features Clip Article 1- without Text Features Article 2- with Text Features  What is the difference?  Which do you prefer?

Text Structure Text structures are different ways an author organizes information in text to communicate ideas. Text structures can be explained through: compare/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution, main idea/supporting details, sequence or order.

Examples Compare/Contrast: to compare is to find out how they are the same, and to contrast is to find out how they are different. Cause/Effect: one event causes another to happen. The cause is why it happens, and the effect is what happens.

Examples Problem/Solution: tells about a problem (and sometimes says why there is a problem) then gives one or more possible solutions. Main Idea/Details: the author offers a main idea statement and then supports that statement with several details.

Examples Sequence: items or events in order or tells the steps to follow to do something or make something. Chronological Order: to explain how things happen in order from beginning to end.

Review & Practice Passage #1- Passage #2- Passage #3- Passage #4- Passage #5- Passage #6-  What text structures are these provided passages?