Organizational Patterns & Outlines

Aims:
1. IWBAT identify and use a variety of effective and coherent organizational patterns, including:

• chronological order (time order: first to last)
• comparison and contrast (similarities and differences)
• order of importance (most important thing comes first)
• climactic order (most important thing comes last)
• organization by categories (information given by group, category, or classification)
• arrangement by spatial order (information given by space, location, or place)

2. IWBAT clarify my understanding of texts by creating outlines.

Tasks:
1. Do Now:

• Place your homework and organizational patterns mini-book on your desk.
• In the following form, read the passage and then select the organizational pattern.
• When you finish, you have three options:
• read silently
• start or continue an activity on TeenBiz3000
• decorate or color your organizational patterns mini-book

2. Identifying Organizational Patterns:

• You will read a selection of short passages: Click Here
• After reading each passage, you will select which organizational pattern you think the author has used in the writing.
• You will submit your answers on an online quiz platform: Click Here
• For each question, you have up to two attempts to correctly identify the organizational pattern.

3. Outlines: Watch a BrainPop video about Outlines.

4. Create an Outline: Read an informational text called "Food to Go." As you read, create an outline to clarify your understanding of the passage. You will type in a document in the Writing Portfolio of your Google Drive called My Outline for "Food to Go."


If you finish early, begin or continue an activity on TeenBiz3000.


Homework: "Food to Go"

• Part 1: Finish your outline in Google Drive (if you didn't finish in class)
• Part 2: Answer the 8 multiple-choice questions and write 1-2 complete sentences to explain why you have given the best answer