Essential Question:
How do our experiences
shape our beliefs?
Reading Objectives
- Students will cite textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly and/or implicitly.
- Students will analyze how an author draws on source material in a specific work.
- Students will analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States.
Writing Objectives
- Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
- Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Language Objectives
- Students will use semicolons correctly.
- Students will use parallel structure correctly.
Performance Assessment
Write a personal essay describing an event in your life that has shaped one of your beliefs. Use narrative devices* to develop your personal essay and to affect your audience, which is your peers and teacher, emotionally. Your essay must be produced and published digitally, adhering to conventions of standard American English (correct spelling, usage, grammar).