King LA8
Unit 2: Reading and Writing Non-Fiction
Essays: Descriptive and Persuasive
Weeks 1-3
Essential Questions:
1. How can you use descriptive language to indicate value?
2. To what extent does the intended audience affect a persuasive essay/speech?
Enduring Understandings
1. When you describe a person, place, thing you are not only giving information you are also
making a value judgment.
2. Students will be able to write adjective clauses and be able to identify if it is an essential or
non-essential clause.
3. Students will use a thesaurus, digital and/or physical, to better vary word choice.
4. When persuading someone, your arguments/claims and how you present them should be
dependent on the audience and the occasion.
5. Students will know how to appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos when making a persuasive
argument.
6. Students will know how to use adverbial clauses to describe how, when, or why an action
occurred.
October 22 (Tuesday)
Topic: Pre-Assessments
- 6+1 Writing Prompt
-Essays Pre-Test
- Read “Pickerel Lake”
Homework:
1. “Pickerel Lake” Assignment
Vocabulary: Descriptive Essay
sensory
thesaurus
adjective clause
personification
understatement
hyperbole
October 24 (Thursday)
Topic: Pickerel Lake/Personification
- Review/Practice Personification
- Discuss Pickerel Lake
- Descriptive Essay Preparation Sheet
Homework:
1. Descriptive Essay Preparation Sheet
Vocabulary: Persuasive Essay
ethos
pathos
logos
adverbial clause
October 29 (Tuesday)
Topic: Descriptive Essay/Hyperbole and Understatement
- Description equals Judgment?
- Hyperbole and Understatement
- Descriptive Essay Work Time
Homework:
1. First Draft: Descriptive Essay—MUST EMAIL TO ME BY THURSDAY 8:00 AM
2. WW3K Lesson 5 COMPLETE!
October 31 (Thursday)
Topic: Adjective Clauses
-WW3K
-Adjective Clause: Lecture and Practice
Homework:
1. Adjective Clause Practice
November 1 (Friday)
Topic: Improving your Descriptive Essay
1. Individual Proofreading: Conventions, Organization, Descriptive Language
2. Small Group Proofreading
3. Adverbial Clauses
Homework:
1. Adverbial Clause Practice
November 5 (Tuesday)
Topic: Persuasive Presentations
1. Review Literary Concepts
2. Appealing to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
3. Persuasive Presentations
Homework:
1. Study for Essay Mini-Unit Test
2. WW3K Lesson 6
November 7 (Thursday)
Persuasive Presentations/Final Test
1. Persuasive Presentations Work Time
2. Essay Mini-Unit Final Test
3. WW3K
November 12 (Tuesday)
Persuasive Presentations
1. Persuasive Presentations
2. Memoirs Mini-Unit Pre-assessment
Homework:
1. WW3K Lesson 7
Week 1-2 Assessments
1. Pickerel Lake Assignment (reading/writing) 5 pts.
2. Descriptive Essay (writing) 10 pts. SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
3. WW3K Lesson 5
5 pts. (Lesson 3 pts./Test 2 pts.)
4. Small Group Proofreading: Descriptive Essay (discussion) 5 pts.
5. Adjective Clause Practice (writing) 5 pts.
6. Adverbial Clause Practice (writing) 5 pts.
7. WW3K Lesson 6
8. Essay Mini-Unit Test
5 pts. (Lesson 3 pts./Test 2 pts.)
10 pts.
9. Persuasive Presentation (speaking) 10 pts.