Welcome!Language Arts

Ms. Marek

Thursday-Friday, February 9-10, 2012

Independent Reading

Retrieve your library book

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Schedule

• Quiz on MONDAY – review vocab

Monday QuizTuesday Data / OrganizationWednesday OrganizationThursday Organization / BiasFriday Bias

OBJECTIVE

SWBAT analyze organizational patterns in their own writing

SWBAT identify and analyze bias in persuasive writing

Bias

Showing a particular tendency or preference towards one idea over another

Bias occurs on a spectrum:– Unbiased: authors explains both points of view– Somewhat biased: author explains both points of

view but shows how one side is better than the other

– Biased: author only shows one side of an argument

The best writing is somewhat biased– addresses both sides of an argument but uses

evidence to show that one side is valid (or right)

REMINDERS

READ READ READ!

Start thinking about a book you

want to read.

READ READ READ!