Unit 1 – How to Analyze Text Textual Intelligence.

Unit 1 – How to Analyze Text

Textual Intelligence

Textual Intelligence (left)

Directions: Draw the T-chart below. Brainstorm as many types of texts as you can for both categories.

Language Arts Texts Social Studies Texts

Discussion

Quickly share your ideas with a partner. Add any new ideas to your chart.

Be prepared to share with the class. Again, record any new ideas.

Textual Intelligence (right)

Prepare your page for Cornell notes.

Notes

text Latin - to weave (e.g. textiles) the original words of

something written, printed, or spoken

NOT a summary or paraphrase

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textual evidence

quotations from a text, paraphrases, descriptions of the text’s formal aspects (e.g. rhythm, line length, etc.), and sometimes even descriptions of visual aspects

Textual Intelligence

Textual intelligence (TI) is all about how texts are made and how different grammatical structures create meaning for or affect the reader.

Textual Intelligence

Writers use their TI when they decide on everything from the form (poem versus prose versus play) to the purpose (to entertain versus to inform) to the structure (narrative versus expository) to medium (word or image, page or screen). They make TI decisions as they choose the point of view, the tense of the story (past tense, present tense), the use of foreshadowing or flashbacks, the organizational structure (linear or episodic).

Textual Intelligence

All these TI choices come in part from the writer’s understanding of how texts and language work. Therefore, the more a student understands these structures, the more options he or she has when he or she writes.

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textual intelligence

A writer’s decisions about how to structure a text to make meaning

Ex) form, purpose, structure, medium, point of view, or literary elements and devices

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primary source an original document, speech, or other piece of evidence

Ex) The Declaration of Independence (legal document), The Diary of Anne Frank (diary), film footage of the assassination of President Kennedy (news film), or The Death of a Salesman (play script)

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secondary source

an interpretation or analysis of a primary source

Ex) textbooks, a newspaper article about an event, Britannica Online encyclopedia

Cornell Notes Completion

After class, write a summary of the information on this page.

It may start like this:

The main ideas presented on this page are…

Return to Brainstorm (left side)

Get two different colors of highlighters or colored pencils.

Reread the types of texts you generated earlier.

Highlight the primary sources in one color and the secondary sources in another.

With a pen or pencil, box the two or three texts that you feel most comfortable reading or analyzing.

Questions

What questions do you have about being texts, textual evidence, textual intelligence, or sources?

Now, where do you think this unit will be going?

Do you need to have anything clarified or explained in another way?

Are you ready to move on?