1. Welcome!
Language Arts
Ms. Marek
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

2. Independent Reading
Retrieve your library book
READ READ READ READ
READ READ READ

3. Schedule
Monday Half day
Tuesday Bias and Causal Chain
Wednesday Causal Chain and Persuasive
Language
Thursday Rubric and Review
Friday Test!
• WEDNESDAY: Make up work due!
• FRIDAY: Drop and Write final draft due!
• TUESDAY: Begin MSA review
• ALL WEEK: Meetings during reading

4. OBJECTIVE
SWBAT analyze
organizational patterns
such as causal chain in
their own writing
SWBAT identify and
analyze bias in
persuasive writing

5. Review …
 Author’s purpose is as easy as pie …
– Persuade
– Inform
– Entertain

6. Review …
 Three types of evidence …
1. Facts
2. Reliable Sources
3. First Hand Accounts

7. Review …
 Organizational structures …
1. Chronological Order
2. Cause and Effect
3. Compare and Contrast
4. Main Idea and Details
5. Logical / Spatial Order
6. Concession / Rebuttal

8. REVIEW …
 Bias occurs on a spectrum …
– Unbiased: authors explains both points of view
– Somewhat biased: author explains both points of
view but shows how one side is better than the
other
– Biased: author only shows one side of an
argument
 The best writing is somewhat biased
– addresses both sides of an argument but uses
evidence to show that one side is valid (or right)

9. REMINDERS
READ READ READ!
Start thinking about a book you
want to read.
READ READ READ!