Students share individual interpretations of a text with others. Students write to inform. Students identify, analyze, and interpret structural elements appropriate to informative writing. Students integrate references correctly and responsibly.
Students summarize text and draw conclusions.
Students synthesize content from multiple disciplines in order to make connections, see patterns, and formulate principles and generalizations. Students identify specific textual evidence from primary sources to support a personal response from a text. Students will need 2 class periods to read the biographies and take notes. Students will need approximately one week on their own to complete the prompt and revise it. Identify and locate biographies of authors on the Internet.