ELA 7
Communicating Thoughts and Ideas
CAP: Communicating Thoughts
Enduring Understandings
- Audience helps determine level of formality.
- Purpose helps determine mode of communication.
- Authors can justify their thoughts with evidence.
Learning Targets
- Determine topics for writing.
- Use the writing process to write correspondence.
- Recognize and use appropriate punctuation.
- Use various resources to determine and check spelling.
Essential Questions
- What is the author’s purpose?
- How does purpose affect the mode of communication?
- Why is it important to justify your thoughts with evidence?
Use your rough draft to create a final copy. Make sure you use the checklist below.
Checklist:
Blue = thesis statement (ONE sentence)
Orange = evidence (quote with page number)
Green = reasoning ( details that support your quote)
Pink = closing statement/conclusion
Remember to-
- clearly state your thesis
- organize your writing
- develop your ideas in detail
- use evidence from the selection in your response
- use correct spelling, capitalization, punctation, and grammar
Manage your time carefully so that you can-
- review the selection
- plan your response
- write your response
- revise and edit your response