Functional Texts

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Unit Title
Major Work
Diary of Anne Frank
Literary Texts
Functional Texts
Informational Texts
Literary Texts Play The Diary of Anne
Frank Number the Stars Alatas Diary
Reference Materials see 222.historyplace.com
for maps and timelines Gangs A Guide to
Understanding Street Gangs
Maps of countries conquered by Hitler during
World War II
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Identify Desired Results
Why are rules and laws essential to life?
Understand rules, laws, and justice.
Why we have rules and laws and why we follow them.
Why are there school and class rules?
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Cross-Curricular Connections
What are they learning in History?
What are they learning in language arts?
World War II
Diary of Anne Frank takes place during World War
II
Diary of Anne Frank
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Read the play.
Present a project.
Look at the play and discuss how to preview, skim
and perform other essentials.
Core Curriculum
Write an essay analyzing how the Nazis used rules
to repress the Jews.
Listen to the play as others read.
Have volunteers read their new rules and discuss
them with the class.
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An EXPOSITORY Writing Assignment With a Six Trait
Component
How did the Germans use rules to break down
freedoms? Compare the Germans use of rules to
the treatment of slaves in the early U.S., and
how they were kept from reading and gaining an
education.
Prompt
Revision Activities
Composing Activities
Prewriting Activities
Peer feedback Teacher fedback Read out loud for
fluency
First draft Small group discussions Parent input
Capitalization rules Completing sentences,
subject and predicate Brainstorming
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Strand
Listening

• Establish purpose of listening
• Focus on the play
• Summarize key ideas
• Organize ideas

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Detailed Revision of Activity Ideas,
Organization, Voice, Word Choice, or Sentence
Fluency (Choose One)
Trait

• Does it sound like you talking? If not, why not?
  Use peer and teacher feedback to work on
  fluency.
• Take a boring narrative and insert voice.
• Write a note to your friend about your day so
  far.
• Do you give details?
• Are there true emotions?
• Are you using your own words?

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Reading Activity to Teach Text Structure Other
Than Narrative
Text Type
Expository