Unraveling the Seams: How Authors Unfold Events - Part One

Learn to identify the text structure and its purpose within a nonfiction text. In this two-part tutorial series, you'll read excerpts from Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. You'll examine how the text structure contributes to meaning in the text, and you'll analyze how the order of events and relationships between events add to the meaning as well.

Make sure to complete both parts. Click here to launch PART TWO. 
Resource ID#: 126169 Type: Original Student Tutorial
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Subject(s): English Language Arts
Grade Level(s): 9, 10
Intended Audience: Students
Instructional Time: 25 Minute(s)
Keywords: Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, English Language Arts, text structures, compare and contrast, problem and solution, definition and example, African American author, nonfiction, literary nonfiction, cause and effect, tutorials, interactive, elearning, e-learning, compare/contrast, order of events, autobiography, problem/solution, definition/example, English, Language Arts, ELA, informational text, female author, female writer
Instructional Component Type(s): Original Student Tutorial
Resource Collection: Original Student Tutorials for Language Arts - Grades 6-12

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