Qui Docet Discit

This focus of this unit is to equip students with the necessary skills and strategies to write and perform a written product. All literacy strands (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) are included in this unit, beginning with taking note of the necessary components involved in speaking and ending with students independently writing a speech or spoken word, which they will perform. While this unit can be used with any ninth or tenth grader, it has been developed with intentional scaffolds

This is a unit plan. Students will trace how society constructs views about people, specifically women and African-Americans. Students will close read informational texts and then end with the short story Desiree's Baby.

This Powerpoint offers steps that students can take to write a paragraph or analyze a paragraph based on text structure.

Students are taken through the steps of understanding the framework of rhetoric and how to draw conclusions in a rhetorical situation.

Understanding the context and purpose of an argument.

Establishing well-constructed and clearly argued ideas through carefully choosing appropriate evidence.

Using credibility and support to build your argument.

Connecting to the audience by understanding their needs, values, and beliefs.

This powerpoint is an instructional tool that helps students to understand and identify various types of claims.