What Influences My Choices?

Lesson 2.1

Learning Targets (p.88)

Today in class, I will…

◦Preview the main ideas and vocabulary for Unit 2.

◦Identify a Wow (excited about) and an Oh No (worried about) within Unit 2.

◦Identify text features in informational texts.

Essential QuestionsUse the Think-Pair-Share strategy to

answer the essential questions.

◦What role does advertising play in the lives of youth?

◦What makes an effective argument?

Unpacking UnitIndividually, skim and scan Unit 2 on

pages 85-163. What activities/assignments are you excited for in Unit 2? What activities/assignments are you worried about in Unit 2?

Each student will receive two post-its. Title one post-it: Wow and the other post-it: Oh No.

Unpacking UnitBased on what you see within the

unit, write one thing you are excited about (Wow) and one thing you are worried about (Oh No).

Stick your post-its in the correct column on the Unit 2 poster, and we will discuss your observations as a class.

Text FeaturesText features are intended to help

you navigate informational texts and understand non-fiction.

Text features can be divided into three categories: organizational, print, and graphics.

ExamplesOrganizational: table of contents,

index, glossary, atlas, appendix.

Print: titles, headings, subheadings, bold, italics, underlined, highlighted words, bullets, captions.

Graphics: illustrations, maps, charts, graphs, timelines.

Review & PracticeText Features Clip

Article 1- without Text Features

Article 2- with Text Features

What is the difference? Which do you prefer?

Text StructureText structures are different ways an

author organizes information in text to communicate ideas.

Text structures can be explained through: compare/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution, main idea/supporting details, sequence or order.

ExamplesCompare/Contrast: to compare is to

find out how they are the same, and to contrast is to find out how they are different.

Cause/Effect: one event causes another to happen. The cause is why it happens, and the effect is what happens.

ExamplesProblem/Solution: tells about a

problem (and sometimes says why there is a problem) then gives one or more possible solutions.

Main Idea/Details: the author offers a main idea statement and then supports that statement with several details.

ExamplesSequence: items or events in order

or tells the steps to follow to do something or make something.

Chronological Order: to explain how things happen in order from beginning to end.

Review & PracticePassage #1-Passage #2-Passage #3-Passage #4-Passage #5-Passage #6-

What text structures are these provided passages?