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A Thematic Unit

Presented by:Ms. Borcuch, 

Ms. Faughnan,  Ms. Scardino, and Ms. Slavin

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NYS ELA Reading Standard 5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g. the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

Objective:• Identification of

components of storytelling

•  Ability to analyze components of story 

NYS Common Core Reading Standard 6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.

Objective:• Understand the visual

components of stage presence.

• Apply this understanding to create a scene with only visual cues

NYS ELA Writing Standard 3.d: Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.Objective:

• Students will be able to analyze why authors use certain language

• Students will be able to select words to evoke feeling in their audience

  NYS ELA Standard 3 for Speaking and Listening: requires that students at this grade level be able to evaluate a speaker’s point of view, tone, and word choice.

Objectives:• Students will be able to identify examples of imagery while focusing on listening skills. • Students will evaluate the choices of a speaker by listening to peer presentations.

NYS ELA Standard 6 for Speaking and Listening: Adapt a speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating a command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

Objective: •  Students will be able to

apply their understanding of speaking and audience in order to create their own audience within their toast.