GRADE: 11 SIX WEEKS: 1st
EARLY AMERICAN/REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD
Essential Question(s)
How do I craft an argument that convinces my audience?
Writing TEKS
16A
Students write an argumentative essay to the appropriate audience that :
 has a clear thesis or position
 provides specific and relevant evidence from sources and/or statements of commonly
accepted beliefs
 is organized in a way that achieves its purpose, addresses its audience, and conveys its
message
 incorporates information from valid and reliable sources (primary and secondary)
 uses persuasive language and rhetorical devices to reach an unreceptive or opposed audience
Writing Product(s)
Researched argumentative essay based on civil liberties/First Amendment rights
Reading TEKS
8A, 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, 10A
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Key Terms/Content
Knowledge
Vocabulary
1A-E
Grammar/Conventions
Top Twenty Errors 17A,
17C, 18A, 18B
Formative Assessments
Analyze how style, tone, and word choice advance the
author’s purpose and point of view or position
Create a summary that explains an author’s viewpoint,
includes the main points and elements, and remains
objective
Tell the difference between inductive and deductive
reasoning
Make inferences and conclusions about the ideas and
organization of an expository text and defend those
inferences and conclusions with evidence from the text
Evaluate how an author’s purpose and audience
influence the tone of a persuasive work
Texts
--Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the
Virginia Convention”
--Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in
the Hands of an Angry God”
--Martin Luther King’s “I Have a
Dream”
--Lowell Putnam’s “Did I Miss
Something?”
--Henry Wechsler’s “Binge
Drinking Must Be Stopped”
--Various non-fiction articles
pamphlets, propaganda, characteristics of Revolutionary writing, biblical allusions, emotional
appeals, opposing view, claim/position/thesis, support, evidence, inductive reasoning, deductive
reasoning, relevant and reliable sources, primary source, secondary source, tone, style, diction,
author’s purpose/perspective, grounds, warrants
Aberration, abstinence, abstract, acclaim, acquiesce, admonish, advocate, aesthetic, affinity,
aggrandizement, Alienate, Alleviate, Aloof, Altruistic, Ambiguous, Ambivalence, Ameliorate,
Analogous, Animosity, Anonymity, Antagonism, Antithesis, Apocryphal, Arduous, Articulate,
Assuage, Atrophy, Augment, Austere, Authoritarian
3 Incomplete or missing documentation
Annotations/Dialectical Journal, Pre-writing/Graphic Organizers (Jim Burke’s Tools & Texts: Main
Idea Organizer p. 50, Rhetorical Notes p. 69, Summary Notes p. 77, Summary Response Notes p.
79, Drawing Conclusions p. 28, Main Inferences Organizer p. 53) Reading Comprehension Checks,
Grammar Practice, Vocabulary Practice
Summative
Assessments
Writing Product, Documentation Assessment &Vocabulary Assessment, Reading Assessment (Short
Answer)