Curriculum Unit
Style, Genre and Disaster: Using Disaster to Teach Writing
Melanie Murray
Title Author
KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.
Research skills, critical thinking, summarizing and citation/ creative writing with focus on voice, point of view, descriptive language
ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT
How can students view and write about disaster events both analytically and creatively?
CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C
Recreate or respond to narrative voice
Analyze point of view through disaster writing
Research disaster critically and responsibly
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C
How does sentence structure and style affect the voice of the speaker? How does voice affect the content?
How can disaster events change depending on the perspective of the storyteller?
Why is evidence-based research and learning so important when it comes to true events? How does veracity affect writing?
VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY A
Lens
Lexicon
Empirical
Peer-Reviewed
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES