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Commentary

Commentary. How do I make a difference in the world?. Units of Study: A Genre Study. Based on inquiry Process Best guess Immersion 1 to study the genre Immersion 2 to continue studying the genre Having a go. Genre. Genre: a recognizable form of writing

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Commentary

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  1. Commentary How do I make a difference in the world?

  2. Units of Study: A Genre Study • Based on inquiry • Process • Best guess • Immersion 1 to study the genre • Immersion 2 to continue studying the genre • Having a go

  3. Genre • Genre: a recognizable form of writing • It passes the Barnes and Noble test • Travel writing, romance novel, commentary, memoir, white paper, literary nonfiction, feature • Mode: a general statement about what the work is doing • To persuade, to narrate, to describe, to explain • Expository, persuasion, narration, description

  4. Let’s have a go at inquiring…. about commentary • Best guesses: What is it?

  5. Let’s do more exploring…. [Immersion #1] • Immerse yourself in commentaries • Think about these questions: • What is commentary? How is it different from other genres? What makes it unique? What makes a commentary a commentary? • What topics are appropriate for commentary? • And just see what you notice about the genre.

  6. Katie Wood Ray on commentary When Leonard Pitts won the Pulitzer prize for commentary in 2004, it caused me to learn something new about the label – editorial– that I’d been using for his writing. I learned that technically, the label editorial refers quite specifically to the official opinion of the newspaper itself on an issue.

  7. All the other writing by columnists on the op-ed pages is referred to as commentary and it is the work of this writing to comment on what’s going on in the world of politics, culture, and society. In other words, anything that’s current and happening and people are talking about might be the subject of commentary.

  8. There is also a rich tradition of sports commentary about what’s happening in the sports world, but it’s typically found in the sports section, not on the op-ed page.

  9. Penny Kittle…. Commentary is driven by ideas that are important to the writer and the piece can simply comment on a situation without the need to convince you with evidence.

  10. The writer is writing to be heard, not to change your mind. When you read Leonard Pitts, you’ll see structures like this: did you hear what Obama said about the achievement gap?

  11. Another common structure is that commentary will end with a question: what are you going to do about that rather than a suggested solution like editorials. • -- Penny Kittle

  12. What’s else? Commentary • One writer’s opinion • Writer’s name and sometimes photo is displayed • The newspaper’s opinion • Without a byline Op-Ed

  13. Quilt of concerns

  14. Control of education Texting Grandkids and grandparents Running red lights Formulaic writing

  15. Immersion #2 • Inquiry question: • How is commentary crafted in ways that make it compelling for the readers to read?

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