Text structures from the masters : 50 lessons and nonfiction mentor texts to help students write their way in and read their way out of every single imaginable genre, grades 6-10
(2016)

Nonfiction

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ESL/TUTOR/372.623/BERNABEI,G

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ESL ESL/TUTOR/372.623/BERNABEI,G Due: 4/29/2024

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PUBLISHED
Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, 2016
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xxv, 221 pages ; 28 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781506311265, 1506311261
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Machine generated contents note: Lesson 1 -- Structure: Stepping Up to a New Role -- Source Document: Hippocratic Oath 400 BCE -- Lesson 2 -- Structure: Can't We Just Get Along? -- Source Document: Speech to Captain John Smith, Chief Powhatan, 1609 -- Lesson 3 -- Structure: Team Promise -- Source Document: Mayflower Compact, 1620 -- Lesson 4 -- Structure: Humble Request for Help -- Source Document: Plymouth Plantation, 1624 -- Lesson 5 -- Structure: No, Thank You -- Source Document: Letter to William and Mary College, The Indians of the Six Nations, 1744 -- Lesson 6 -- Structure: Lighting a Fire Under a Procrastinator -- Source Document: Speech, Patrick Henry, 1775 -- Lesson 7 -- Structure: How Bullying Works -- Source Document: "Journal of a Lady of Quality," Janet Schaw, 1775 -- Structure: Problem-Solution Message -- Source Document: Declaration of Independence, 1776 -- Lesson 9 -- Structure: Time for a Real Solution

Note continued: Source Document: Common Sense (Excerpts), Thomas Paine, 1776 -- Lesson 10 -- Structure: Letter From Home -- Source Document: Letter to Her -- Husband John Adams, Abigail Adams, 1776 -- Lesson 11 -- Structure: How Bad Is It? (A Description) -- Source Document: Letter to George Washington, Benjamin Rush, 1777 -- Lesson 12 -- Structure: Reprimanding a Group -- Source Document: Speech to Angry Officers -- General George Washington, 1783 -- Lesson 13 -- Structure: Purposes of an Action -- Source Document: Preamble to the Constitution, 1787 -- Lesson 14 -- Structure: Charm Check -- Source Document: "The Star Spangled Banner," Francis Scott Key, 1814 -- Lesson 15 -- Structure: S.O.S. -- Source Document: "Victory or Death" Letter From the Alamo, William B. Travis, 1836 -- Lesson 16 -- Structure: Sightseeing -- Source Document: "Observations on a Steamboat Between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati," American Notes, Charles Dickens, 1842 -- Lesson 17

Note continued: Structure: Tour of an Unfamiliar Place -- Source Document: "Factory Life," Labor Reformer, 1846 -- Lesson 18 -- Structure: Breaking Into a Heated Argument -- Source Document: "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech, Sojourner Truth, 1851 -- Lesson 19 -- Structure: Controversial Decision -- Source Document: Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln, 1862 -- Lesson 20 -- Structure: At the Moment of a Milestone -- Source Document: Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, 1863 -- Lesson 21 -- Structure: We're Both Wrong; We're Both Right -- Source Document: Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln, 1865 -- Lesson 22 -- Structure: Letter to an Author -- Source Document: Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, 1868 -- Lesson 23 -- Structure: Fighting Unfairness With Logic -- Source Document: "Women's Rights to the Suffrage" Speech, Susan B. Anthony, 1873 -- Lesson 24 -- Structure: Valuable Advice -- Source Document: "Advice to Youth" Speech, Mark Twain, 1882

Note continued: Lesson 25 -- Structure: Comforting a Friend in Pain -- Source Document: Letter to a Friend, Henry James, 1883 -- Lesson 26 -- Structure: I Want More (While I Have the Chance) -- Source Document: Letter to Professor Baird, William G. Hornaday, 1886 -- Lesson 27 -- Structure: First Earnings -- Source Document: Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls (Excerpt), Bertha Miller, b. 1890 -- Lesson 28 -- Structure: My Symbol -- Source Document: The Pledge of Allegiance, 1892 -- Lesson 29 -- Structure: Narrative: Just the Facts -- Source Document: On Lynchings (Excerpt), Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1895 -- Lesson 30 -- Structure: Letter of Recommendation -- Source Document: Letter to Jessie Gladden, Clara Barton, 1898 -- Lesson 31 -- Structure: Why Something Goes Viral -- Source Document: "A Modern Day Devil Baby" (American Journal of Sociology 20(1), 117-118), Jane Addams, 1914 -- Lesson 32 -- Structure: Understanding the Scars of Our Elders

Note continued: Source Document: "Remembering Slavery" (Excerpt), Tonea Stewart, 1930 -- Lesson 33 -- Structure: Objects of Affection -- Source Document: "The Pleasure of Books," William Lyon Phelps, 1933 -- Lesson 34 -- Structure: True or False? Neither -- Source Document: Letter From Phyllis, Albert Einstein, 1936 -- Lesson 35 -- Structure: How an Experience Changed Me -- Source Document: It's a Great Life, Robert L. Miller, 1937 -- Lesson 36 -- Structure: A Bad Situation a Lot of Us Are In -- Source Document: "I'd Rather Not Be on Relief," Lester Hunter Song, 1938 -- Lesson 37 -- Structure: Picking Up the Pieces -- Source Document: Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1941 -- Lesson 38 -- Structure: Heads Up From Your Wingman -- Source Document: Letter to Her Husband, Eleanor Roosevelt, circa WWII -- Lesson 39 -- Structure: What Do I Mean? Well -- Source Document: "I Love You" Letter, Ayn Rand, 1948 -- Lesson 40

Note continued: Structure: My Advice About Your Strong Feeling -- Source Document: Letter to His Son Thorn, John Steinbeck, 1958 -- Lesson 41 -- Structure: Pep Talk -- Source Document: Inaugural Address, John F. Kennedy, 1961 -- Lesson 42 -- Structure: Memory Reflection -- Source Document: Black Like Me (Excerpt), John Howard Griffin, 1961 -- Lesson 43 -- Structure: Parting Advice to Your Replacement -- Source Document: "Duty, Honor, Country," General Douglas MacArthur, 1962 -- Lesson 44 -- Structure: Bon Voyage -- Source Document: Letter to His Astronaut Son, Scott Carpenter, 1962 -- Lesson 45 -- Structure: I Feel Your Pain -- Source Document: "Ich bin ein Berliner" Speech, John F. Kennedy, 1963 -- Lesson 46 -- Structure: Flashpoint Moment of Truth -- Source Document: "And We Shall Overcome" Special Message to Congress (Excerpt), Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965 -- Lesson 47 -- Structure: Walking the Walk to Make a Difference

Note continued: Source Document: "Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.," Cesar Chavez, 1990 -- Lesson 48 -- Structure: Using a Story to Make a Point -- Source Document: Nobel Lecture (Abridged), Toni Morrison, 1993 -- Lesson 49 -- Structure: New Perspectives From a Photo -- Source Document: "Pale Blue Dot" Speech, Carl Sagan, 1996 -- Lesson 40 -- Structure: So You'll Know Me After I'm Gone -- Source Document: Letter to My Sons (Preface), Lieutenant Colonel Mark Weber 2012 -- Appendices -- 1.Complete Collection of 50 Text Structures -- 2.Text Structures Useful as Promises to Others -- 3.Text Structures of Our Identity -- 4.Text Structures for Travel -- 5.Text Structures for Important Moments -- 6.Text Structures for Desperation -- 7.Text Structures Useful as Persuasion About Some Needed Change -- 8.Text Structures Useful for Bad Times -- 9.Text Structures for Times of Conflict -- 10.More Ways to Use the Lessons in an English Language Arts Classroom

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