Analysis of Text Craft and Structure
Overview
This lesson explores authors craft and sturcture through and event that directly effects students.
Analysis of text craft and structure
For the flipgrid video the teacher should create a flipgrid class for each section and have the studnets login via QR code or the flipcode for the section.
Purpose Statement(s):
Students will understand that writers use structure to create meaning in a text and will do this by reading a recent New York Times article and evaluating the craft of the author’s argument.
Students will understand that comparing our experiences to others can help us gain our own insights.
INSTRUCTION:
Part 1
Cornovirus Is Shutting Schools. Is America Ready for Virtual Learning?
We have taked about what makes your generation unique and some challenges you face. No you will be reading about a new challenge for your generation: unexpected virtual learning.
Read the article "Cornovirus Is Shutting Schools. Is America Ready for Virtual Learning?" by Dana Goldstein
Once you have read the article, highlight/underline these items on the article:
What is Goldstein's argument/main point/focus? What is she trying to convince you to do or believe about vireual learning?
What are her reasons? How does she justify wht she is saying?
Highlight a section where you think what she wrote is especially clear, convincing, and/or engaging.
Rate her effectiveness on a scale of 1 (not effective) to 5 (very effective). How effective doyou think she was in making her point? Explain why.
Part 2
What Students Are Saying About Remote Learning.
Read "What Students Are Saying About Remote Learning" by The New York Times Learning Network. This article is a set of student responses to the article " Coronavirus is Shutting Schools. Is America Ready for Virtual Learning?" by Dana Goldstein, which you read in part one. As you skim these student respones, look for a couple responses that you feel you agree or identify with -- and a couple or responses with which you disagress. Think about why you agree/disagree with those students based on your own experiences with virtual learning so far.
Now write your own response. Aim for 2+ paragraphs. Here are some of the question prompts The New York TImes gave other students in their responses:
How is/was virtual/remote learning? What do you like/dislike about it? What do you miss the most about goin to schoolin person every day? What do you miss the least? Are you anzious to get back to school? Why or why not?
Part 3
Using Flipgrid record a video talking through these things:
Talk to me about the article from part 1: What was goldstein's argument about virtual learning? Read me a quotation from the article that you thought was espacially clear, convincing, and/or engaging -- and briefly explain why?
Read me your own response that you wrote for part 2