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Unraveling Disease Patterns in Nonfiction: Understanding Cause & Effect

Explore the impact of diseases like the Black Death, grasp patterns of organization, interpret graphic aids, and enhance your vocabulary and writing skills. Learn to discern facts, opinions, and persuasive techniques in nonfiction readings.

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Unraveling Disease Patterns in Nonfiction: Understanding Cause & Effect

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  1. The Elements of NonfictionGrade 7

  2. Objectives • • explore the key idea of disease • • identify and compare patterns of organization • (cause-and-effect, chronological order) • • interpret graphic aids (map, bar graph) • • read magazine articles • Reading • • set a purpose for reading • Vocabulary • • build vocabulary for reading and writing • • understand and use specialized vocabulary • Grammar and Writing • • write a compare-contrast essay

  3. Take Out • Binder with Paper • Use Cornell Note-taking method.

  4. NONFICTION Part 4

  5. NONFICTION • LEARNING GOAL – READ NONFICTION WITH INCREASED COMPREHENSION AND A CRITICAL, ANALYTICAL POINT OF VIEW.

  6. Nonfiction Unit • We will read selections that use facts for the purposes of informing, argument, and persuasion. • You will discover how to determine what is true, what is false, and what is open to debate.

  7. Nonfiction - Academic Vocabulary • • fact • • argument • • opinion • • persuasive techniques • • text features • • reasoning

  8. Nonfiction • summary • “Like Black Smoke” tells how the bubonic • plague spread from wild rodents in Asia to • human populations in western Europe, moving • along trade routes via fleas and ships. • “A World Turned Upside Down” tells how • depopulation brought far-reaching social and • economic change, especially by contributing to • the decline of the feudal system.

  9. Nonfiction • Patterns of Organization • Nonfiction writers use a pattern of organization to help • them explain key points. Here are two common patterns: • 1 • Cause-and-effect organization points out the relationship • between an event and its cause or effect. Signal words and • phrases, such as caused, because, and led to, may indicate a • cause or an effect. • 2 • Chronological order organizes events according to when • they happened. Signal words include afterand the • followingand phrases that give specific times or dates. • As you read, decide how each article’s pattern of organization • helps the author explain her main points.

  10. Nonfiction • Tasting cookie dough or cake batter can lead to infection by Salmonella enteritidisbecause this bacterium may be present in uncooked eggs. • How is the information organized? • Signal words?

  11. Reading Strategy • reading strategy: set a purpose for reading • As you read these two articles, look for similarities and • differences in the information the articles contain and the • ways they are organized. A chart like the one shown in the textbook can help • you identify these similarities and differences.

  12. Reading Strategy • CHECK UNDERSTANDING • How is reading for information different from reading just for fun?

  13. Nonfiction • • Disease • http://youtu.be/Gs5Uh0Fah_k - Black Death • Text Pages 894-905

  14. Closing

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