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Grades 11-12 ELA, Reading Closely for Textual Details: Lay Down All My Joys

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Overview
This English Language Arts /Literacy Unit empowers students with a critical reading and writing skill at the heart of the Common Core: Reading complex texts closely to analyze textual details and deepen understanding.

This unit develops students’ abilities to read closely for textual details and compare authors’ perspectives through an examination of a series of texts about the Civil War.

Unit Components
The unit components are divided into separate PDF files for ease of use. The files may be downloaded individually or in a single zip file.

UNIT PLAN AND TEXTS HANDOUTS
RC Unit Plan – G11-12 Lay Down All My Joys
RC Unit Texts – G11-12 Lay Down All My Joys		 Guiding Questions Handout
Reading Closely Checklist
TCD Checklist
MODEL TOOLS TOOLS
Questioning Texts – Whitman
Analyzing Details – Whitman		 Questioning Texts
Analyzing Details

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Zip File: This file contains ALL unit components pre-organized into folders:
Reading Closely CCSS Unit – Zip File of All Documents

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Reading Closely Unit Plan – Grades 11-12: Lay Down All My Joys (1.58 MB)
Reading Closely Unit Texts – Grades 11-12: Lay Down All My Joys (759.95 KB)
Questioning Texts – Whitman (64.46 KB)
Analyzing Details – Whitman (65.08 KB)
Reading Closely CCSS Unit Grades 11-12: “Lay Down All My Joys” – Zip File of All Documents (3.27 MB)

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Created On:
Fri 07/05/2013 -
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Subject(s):
English Language Arts
Grade(s):
High School / Commencement Level
Grade 11
Grade 12
Topic(s):
Common Core Learning Standards
CCLS ELA:
RI.11-12.1
RI.11-12.2
RI.11-12.6
RI.11-12.9
RI.11-12.10
W.11-12.2
W.11-12.4
W.11-12.9
SL.11-12.1
Resource Type:
Lesson Plan
Module Unit
Creative Commons License:
Creative Commons Licence

Common Core Learning Standards

CCLS State Standard
RI.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as...
RI.11-12.2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the...
RI.11-12.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly...

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