Sep 30, 2014 - Working with Evidence and Making Claims: How Do Authors Structure Texts and Develop Ideas?
In this module, students engage with literature and nonfiction texts that develop central ideas of guilt,...
Jan 26, 2016 - In Unit 9.2.1, students analyze the development and refinement of common central ideas in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain...
Jan 26, 2016 - "In this lesson, students analyze the entire text of “The Tell-Tale Heart” with a focus on Poe’s choices concerning text structure, time, and order of events. Students will practice identifying and...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students build on discussions from the previous seven lessons and identify and connect textual evidence to write a claim about how a central idea is developed in “The Tell-Tale Heart...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will encounter Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” for the first time. Students will experience two masterful readings of "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain...
Jan 26, 2016 - "In this lesson students will continue their analysis of Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” and explore how Dickinson develops the central idea of madness through the funeral...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson students will complete their reading of “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” considering how Dickinson uses structural choices to develop the central idea of madness through the funeral...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will engage in an evidence-based discussion in which they will analyze how the two unit texts, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” talk to each other....
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will exhibit the literacy skills and habits developed in Unit 1 by writing a formal evidence-based essay addressing the assessment prompt: Identify a central idea shared by...
Jan 26, 2016 - In Unit 9.2.2, students read the Greek tragedy Oedipus the King. The longest text in the module, Oedipus the King allows students to analyze how multiple central ideas are developed and refined...
Jan 26, 2016 - In the first lesson of this unit, students will build their close reading skills as they work carefully through the first two monologues of Oedipus the King. This lesson serves as the initial...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will engage critically with the key details established thus far in the crime of Laius’s murder as described by Creon, and consider how these details develop the central idea...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will analyze textual details relating to both literal and figurative blindness through the figure of the blind prophet Teiresias and his conversation with Oedipus, as they...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will explore the effects created by Sophocles’s decisions to reveal key details that shed light on the identity of Laius’s murderer through riddles. Students will continue to...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson students will consider how Jocasta’s story develops the central idea of the role of fate in the crime of Laius’s murder. Analysis will focus on the influence Jocasta has over Oedipus,...
Jan 26, 2016 - Students will examine Oedipus’s account of a violent event in his past, and will then use the Mid-Unit Evidence Collection Tool to explore the development of central idea in preparation for their Mid...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson comprises the Mid-Unit Assessment in which students develop a three-point claim in response to the following question: What relationship does Sophocles establish between prophecy and...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will consider how Sophocles orders the events of the drama to create the effects of mystery and tension, as well as consider how the news of the death of Polybus, King of...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, student analysis will focus on how the Messenger’s steady revelation of key details in the text develops the central idea of the role of fate in Oedipus’s guilt. This process will...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will use a tool to explore and collect the key details of Oedipus’s final act of self-mutilation, and consider how these details develop the central idea of the role of fate...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will work collaboratively as they explore Oedipus’s account of his tragic situation and consider how the punishment he chooses for himself develops the central idea of the...
Jan 26, 2016 - In the first of two lessons that comprise the End-of-Unit Assessment, students work with the Guilt and Innocence Evidence Collection Tool in preparation for developing an evidence-based claim about...
Jan 26, 2016 - In the second of two lessons that comprise the End-of-Unit Assessment, students will craft a multi-paragraph response exploring how Sophocles develops the central idea Oedipus’s guilt throughout the...
Jan 26, 2016 - In Unit 9.2.3, students read “True Crime: The roots of an American obsession,” an article from Newsweek that examines humanity’s relationship with guilt; “How Bernard Madoff Did It,” a book review of...
