Nonfiction
A Critical Approach
Nonfiction helps students develop analytical and evaluative techniques to critically approach nonfiction reading. In part 1, Acquiring Critical Tools, students examine the writer’s background, purpose, attitude, and audience; the reader’s background and attitude; questioning as an essential channel of communication; the difference between denotation and connotation; and the use of propaganda devices. Part 2, Journalistic Samples, explores interviews, columns, reviews, articles, editorials, and editorial cartoons. In part 3, Essays, students respond to formal and informal essays, wit and humor, and various rhetorical modes. Part 4, Personal Chronicles, investigates diaries, journals, letters, personal reflections, memoirs, biographies, profiles, portraits, and sketches.
About the Series:
English & Language Arts curriculum units contain complete lesson
plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with background
and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for
student questions. These materials encourage the development of thinking
, reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical
thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Student Activities
Students read nonfiction from each of the genres and assess it. Students participate in exercises that spark thought about their own nonfiction writing and help them realize how language can shape their thinking. Lessons also emphasize how nonfiction is influenced by both the writer’s and the reader’s point of view.
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