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Previewing embedded assessment 2 and expository Writing
aCTIvITy 2.13
Learning Targets
• Analyze and summarize the components of Embedded Assessment 2.
• Explore the positive and negative connotations of change, and write a paragraph about different types of changes.
Making Connections
In the first half of the unit, you saw how people sometimes turn to nature for comfort when going through a significant change in life, just as Sal relied on a tree for comfort in Walk Two Moons. Similarly, in this half of the unit, you will discover how animals, a part of nature, can also play a significant role in creating positive change in a person’s everyday life.
Essential Questions
Now that you have participated in a Literature Circle, would you change your answer to the first Essential Question on how talking and working with others can help one analyze a novel? If so, how would you change your answer? If not, why not?
Developing Vocabulary
Look in your Reader/Writer Notebook at the new Academic Vocabulary words and Literary Terms you learned in the first half of this unit. Which words do you now know well, and which do you still need to learn more about?
Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Read the assignment for Embedded Assessment 2: Writing an Expository Essay.
Your assignment is to write a multiparagraph expository essay explaining how people can enhance their lives through observing and interacting with animals. What can human beings learn from animals? In what ways can they help us? In your essay, give examples from your own life, from texts you have studied in this unit, from your independent reading, or from society that help support your explanation.
In your own words, summarize what you will need to know to complete this assessment successfully. With your class, create a graphic organizer to represent the skills and knowledge you will need to complete the tasks identified in the Embedded Assessment.
my Notes
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LearNING STraTeGIeS:
Graphic Organizer, Drafting, Adding, Looping
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