Understanding by Design

Identify Desired Results (Stage 1)
Content Standards
Compose and Create - Students will extend their abilities to speak, write, and use other forms of representation to explore and present thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a variety of forms for a variety of purposes and audiences.
CC B10.4 Create a variety of written informational (including a business letter, biographical profile, problem-solution essay) and literary (including fictionalized journal entries and a short script) communications.
Create → written informational communications
Create → written literary communications
(business letter, biographical profile, problem-solution essay, fictionalized journal entries, short script)
Essential Questions / Enduring Understandings
Open-ended questions that stimulate thought and inquiry linked to the content of the enduring understanding. / What do you want students to understand & be able to use several years from now?
How do we create written informational and literary communications? / Students will understand that . . .
Written informational and literary communications can be created in a variety of different ways.
Knowledge
Students will know… / Skills
Students will be able to…
·  Types of texts (Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, Descriptive)
·  A variety of BDA strategies
·  Language cues and conventions (Imprecision, Jargon, Slang, Euphemism, Cliché, Gobbledygook, Abusages, Sentence structures, Misplaced and dangling qualifiers, Subject-verb agreement, Pronoun agreement, Pronoun reference, Punctuation, Prepositions, Homonyms, Plurals, Possessives, Canadian spelling conventions, Pronunciation, Font size, Type face, Formatting)
·  Elements of a business letter (Semi-block/full block style, Heading, Inside address, Salutation, Body, Complimentary closing, Signature)
·  Elements of a script (Stage directions, Setting, Dialogue, Action, Conflict, Character)
·  Figurative language
·  Literary devices / ·  Select and use a variety of BDA strategies.
·  Apply language cues and conventions.
·  Write an explanation and defence of personal point of view
·  Write a biographical profile.
·  Write a problem-solution essay.
·  Write a business letter.
·  Write fictionalized journal entries.
·  Write a short script.
·  Experiment with and explore a variety of text forms and techniques.