February
Weekly Objectives / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Academic Vocabulary
-Analyze a text, identify explicit textual evidence
-Draw inferences
-Support inference using pieces from the text
-Provide varying degrees of support
CCSS: RI1
-Identify point of view in a text
-Identify purpose in a text
-Understand, identify, and analyze the use of rhetorical devices
-Understand author’s purpose
CCSS: RI 6 / 2
Supporting Details
Citing Textual Evidence
Close Reading
Introduction to Verbs: Definitions and Identification
Action Verbs / 3
Supporting Details
Citing Textual Evidence
Close Reading
Linking Verbs / 4
Supporting Details
Citing Textual Evidence
Close Reading
Verb Phrases / 5
Author’s POV
Author’s Purpose
Close Reading
Verb Quiz / 6
Author’s POV
Author’s Purpose
Close Reading
Introduction to Subjects: Definition and Identification / ●  Analyze
●  Cite
●  Explicit
●  Textual evidence
●  Conclude
●  Inference
●  Thoroughly
CCSS: RI1
●  point of view
●  purpose
●  analyze
CCSS: RI 6
-Identify point of view in a text
-Identify purpose in a text
-Understand, identify, and analyze the use of rhetorical devices
-Understand author’s purpose
-Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs. or larger portions of a text
-Analyze the impact of word choices on meaning and tone
CCSS: RI 4 RI 5, RI 6 / 9
Author’s Purpose / 10
Tone
Details
Adjectives & Adverbs / 11
Tone
Diction and Imagery
Adjectives & Adverbs / 12
Tone
Sentence Patterns/ Syntax
Adjectives & Adverbs / 13
Workday / ●  point of view
●  purpose
●  analyze
CCSS: RI 6
●  tone
●  meaning
●  impact
●  specific
CCSS: RI 4

-Outline or trace the arguments and claims in text.
-Determine if sufficient evidence is presented to support an argument or claim.
-Understand cummulative impact of word choice.
-Assess credibility and accuracy of sources.
-Identify ideas and claims in text in successive stages.
CCSS: W9.8; RI9.8; RI9.4; RI9.5 / 16
Workday

/ 17
Tone
Adjectives/
Adverbs / 18
Primary/
Secondary Sources
Adjectives/
Adverbs / 19
Primary/
Secondary Sources
DO/IO/PN/PA / 20
Appeals/ Bias
DO/IO/PN/PA / *Tone
*Sources
*Information
*Primary Source
*Secondary Source
*Credibility
*Information
*Denotation
*Connotation
*Argument
*Claim
-Understand the rhetoric of an argument.
-Provide reason and evidence to support claims.
-Identify and distinguish counterclaims.
-Understand, identify and analyze the use of rhetoric devices.
-Identify point of view and purpose.
-Identify how point of view and purpose shape an author’s style.
CCSS: RI9.6; RI9.5; RI9.8 / 23
Appeals/Bias
DO/IO/PN/PA / 24
Counter-
Arguments
DO/IO/PN/PA / 25
Counter-
Arguments
DO/IO/PN/PA / 26
Style
DO/IO/PN/PA / 27
Style
DO/IO/PN/PA / RI9.5
*Analyze
*Claim
*Develop
*Text Structure
RI9.6
*Determine
*Purpose
*Analyze
*Rhetoric
*Point of View
RI9.8
*Counter-Argument