Current Unit: Opinion Writing (Reviews, Persuasive Speeches)
Students are learning:
- How to Evaluate and Rank things
- Judging items/things fairly, categorizing, stating an opinion, providing details and reasons, paragraphs, conventions
- Writing Reviews
- Persuade others, hooking the reader, writing convincing reasons, telling stories in reviews, interviewing, sharing
- Persuasive Speeches
- Planning, revising, sharing claims and reasons, flash-drafting, studying mentor texts