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What Influences My choIces?: evaluating and creating
Visual Prompt: How do you use different sources of information to help you make decisions about what to buy or to do?
Unit Overview
People choose to do something, or buy something for many reasons. Often, it’s because they have seen something promoting it. In this unit, you will investigate how advertising influences the lives of youth by critically reading informational text. You will also analyze an argument by reading an argumentative essay and a news article. By the end of the unit, you will become a skilled reader and writer of a variety of nonfiction texts, an engaged collaborator in discussion groups, and an effective argumentative writer.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Informational texts
Informational Text:
$211 Billion and So Much to Buy .........................48
News Article:
Marketing to Kids Gets More Savvy with New Technologies.....................................................................60
Essay:
America the Not-So-Beautiful....................................74 Embedded Assessment ....................................................................................84 Unit 2 • Overview 47
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