how do you analyze effectively?

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For this final Connect module, we'll be breaking down ideas and analyzing deeply. Analysis means, by definition, to break something down into its constituent parts - and that's just what we'll be practicing this week!

Module summary:

• be exposed: learn about marginalia annotation
• practice: read an article to practice marginalia and analysis
• create: analyze a long form article in a blog post
• reflect: conference with Christine about your process and progress

Marginalia: the art of intense note-taking!

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essential questions

1. How do we adapt our communication skills to fulfill an intended purpose?
2. How does the revision process strengthen our writing?
3. How can electronic publishing change the way we share ideas?
4. Why does close reading matter?

goals

1. Students will understand that we adapt our communication based on purpose or context through our word choice, voice, and sentence and paragraph structure.
2. ​Students will understand that revision strengthens writing by being critical, looking for holes in the story, and ensuring ideas are expressed clearly.
3. Students will understand that electronic publishing gives us a plethora of sources to link to our work, allowing us to make deeper and more creative connections between ideas - but that it also opens us to an uncontrolled audience, so we must be careful in how we present our ideas.
4. Students will understand that close reading hones our critical thinking skills and helps us comprehend ideas better and make deeper connections.

activities

INTRODUCE

• Complete warm up: watch and discuss news summary
• Review syllabus and module expectations

EXPOSE

• Read "On Marginalia" article
• Re-read article and annotate with marginalia
• Discuss: how were your two reading experiences different?
  • Completing module independently? Write this up as an informative paragraph instead
• Read "Supreme Court supports children's rights to put warming climate on trial" together
  • Annotate with marginalia 
  • Complete quiz questions together and discuss

PRACTICE

• Read "Weight Watchers is targeting teens" article
  • Take quiz
  • Discuss article and your reflection on its assertions
    • Completing module independently? Write up a persuasive paragraph in response, instead (include specific references to the article)

CREATE

• Choose an article from www.longform.org that interests you
  • Run your choice by Christine before you start reading
  • Read and annotate with marginalia

• Analyze article with a blog post [draft in Docs first!], including this content: 
  • Introduction
    • Hook (please make it thought-provoking, not droll)
    • Context - summary of article (include title, as a hyperlink, and author)
    • Thesis statement
  • Support
    • Analyze 3-4 points from the article, referencing specific elements and quotes. What do you think about these points? what do they mean to you? how do they contribute to your thesis? why are these points important to you? 
    • Make a connection between each point and another topic in your life or in society - one that is either similar or provides a contrast
  • Counterargument
    • Once again referencing the article, discuss the opposing viewpoint. In what ways is this viewpoint valid to consider? how can you ultimately bring the argument back to your thesis/perspective?
  • Conclusion
    • What are you taking away from this article? What have you learned - or what new perspectives have you gained?
    • Why should we care about this topic?
  • Add two photos and/or videos to supplement your writing
• Submit draft

REFLECT

• Conference with Christine about DOK draft
• Finish revisions of DOK
  • Review with Christine

c-tachs

Writing

• Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through effective selection, organization, and analysis of content
• Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
• Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach
• Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in flexible and dynamic ways (open to feedback, link to other information)
• Gather relevant information for multiple print and digital sources; assessing the credibility and accuracy of each source; quote and paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism; use a standard form for citation

Reading

• Read and comprehend complex literature and informational text independently, accurately and for deep understanding 

Language

• Demonstrate command of conventions of standard English grammar when speaking and writing
• Demonstrate command of standard capitalization and punctuation
• Spell correctly
• Determine meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases 
• Acquire and use content specific vocabulary   

​Speaking and Listening

• Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
• Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning and style used
• Present information, findings and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective
• Make strategic use of digital media in oral presentations
• Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English

resources

Senior Analysis syllabus