ELA 7

Communicating Thoughts and Ideas

CAP: Communicating Thoughts

Enduring Understandings

• Audience helps determine level of formality.
• Purpose helps determine mode of communication.
• Authors can justify their thoughts with evidence.

Learning Targets

• Determine topics for writing.
• Use the writing process to write correspondence.  
• Recognize and use appropriate punctuation. 
• Use various resources to determine and check spelling.

Essential Questions

• What is the author’s purpose? 
• How does purpose affect the mode of communication?
• Why is it important to justify your thoughts with evidence?

Use your rough draft to create a final copy. Make sure you use the checklist below.

Checklist:

Blue = thesis statement (ONE sentence)

Orange = evidence (quote with page number) 

Green = reasoning  ( details that support your quote)

Pink = closing statement/conclusion

Remember to-

• clearly state your thesis 
• organize your writing 
• develop your ideas in detail 
• use evidence from the selection in your response 
• use correct spelling, capitalization, punctation, and grammar 

Manage your time carefully so that you can-

• review the selection
• plan your response
• write your response
• revise and edit your response