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CCLS - ELA: SL.9-10.1.b

Category
Speaking & Listening
Sub-Category
Comprehension and Collaboration
State Standard:
Work with peers to set rules for collegial discussions and decision-making (e.g., informal consensus, taking votes on key issues, presentation of alternate views), clear goals and deadlines, and individual roles as needed.
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4

    May 13, 2015 - In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze nonfiction and dramatic texts, focusing on how the authors convey and develop central ideas concerning imbalance, disorder, tragedy, mortality, and...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 2

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students develop these close reading skills as they examine Shakespeare’s Macbeth. They also continue to develop their oral presentation and argument writing skills through a series of activities...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 1

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students read Martin Luther King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” alongside three short poems, focusing on how King develops his argument for direct action on civil rights. Students...
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    Work Group

    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 2

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students engage with Julia Alvarez’s autobiographical essay, “A Genetics of Justice,” continuing to build skills for close reading and analysis as well developing their understanding of...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 3

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students encounter three documents focusing on human rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948; Eleanor Roosevelt’s “On the Adoption of...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 3, Lesson 5

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students work in small groups to consider whether or not Machiavelli would deem the fictional character of Macbeth a successful prince. After providing evidence and reasoning to support their...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 1

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students read E. B. White’s personal essay “Death of a Pig.” Students analyze how White unfolds and draws connections between key events and ideas in the text while developing and refining his...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 3

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students read excerpts from Niccolò Machiavelli’s political treatise, The Prince. Students use the skills, practices, and routines that they have developed throughout the year to identify central...
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    Work Group

    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 3, Lesson 1

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this first lesson of the unit, students read and analyze the Preamble and Articles 1–10 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights to identify the document’s purpose and the basic human rights...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 2, Lesson 7

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth Act 2.3, in which a drunken Porter opens the gates of the castle to Lennox and Macduff, prompting the discovery of Duncan’s murder and the flight of his sons Malcolm...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 2, Lesson 5

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth Act 2.1, in which Macbeth and Banquo agree to discuss their encounter with the witches at a later date and Macbeth prepares to kill Duncan. 
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 3, Lesson 7

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this End-of-Unit Assessment, students demonstrate their cumulative understanding of the arguments presented in all three of the unit texts. Students first delineate the argument of each text and...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 1, Lesson 19

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read “Women,” a poem by the contemporary writer, Alice Walker. Students work in pairs to analyze Walker’s poem before working in small groups to consider how the poem...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 3, Lesson 4

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students read the final three paragraphs of Chapter 18 of The Prince. Students collaboratively identify quotes to analyze how specific phrases refine and develop claims and central ideas that are...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 1, Lesson 17

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students carefully read and analyze the final five paragraphs of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” As students read, they determine King’s purpose for writing...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 1, Lesson 15

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students reread and analyze paragraphs 26–33 of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail.” Students review these paragraphs in order to analyze how King develops and...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 3, Lesson 3

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read paragraphs 3–9 of Roosevelt’s speech, participating in an evidence-based jigsaw discussion to analyze how Roosevelt develops and refines her claim that the United...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 2, Lesson 25

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students view and analyze the 2011 Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of Macbeth (00:00-14:55) in order to compare the film version of Acts 1.1 through 1.3 to the original text. 
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 2, Lesson 19

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth, Act 5.7 and 5.8, in which Macbeth engages in battle with Malcolm and his thanes and is defeated and killed by Macduff, who, Macbeth learns, was not born of woman...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 2, Lesson 20

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students use choral reading techniques to interpret self-selected scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 3

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students analyze the third section of E. B. White’s “Death of a Pig,” in which White moves between ruminating on the deterioration of his pig and his own state of mind and recounting a humorous...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 2, Lesson 24

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students view and analyze Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film adaptation of Macbeth, in order to compare Kurosawa’s presentation of the opening scenes (the first 20:09 minutes of the film) to...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 2, Lesson 17

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth Act 5.2 and 5.3, in which the thanes desert Macbeth, who seeks assurances in the Witches’ prophecy and who receives updates from the Doctor on Lady Macbeth’s illness...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 2, Lesson 23a

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this optional lesson students present their arguments from the previous lesson as oral presentations to small groups of peers.