Apr 22, 2019 - The lesson exemplars for English Language Learners (ELLs)/Multilingual Language Learners (MLLs) in Grades 3-9 demonstrate ways to support these students in mastering the English language arts lessons...

Apr 02, 2019 - In this End-of-Unit Summative Assessment, students will demonstrate their ability to describe complex characters and analyze paired texts. Using their notes, worksheets, and rubrics from previous...

Apr 02, 2019 - This lesson concludes the first close reading of “Solarium” in Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, from “One moment we were watching the twitch ...” to “… the English have an irresistible urge to...

Apr 02, 2019 - In this lesson, students begin their study of “Solarium,” a chapter from the novel Black Swan Green with thematic connections to Rilke’s Letter One. Over the next several lessons, students will...

Apr 02, 2019 - In the next two lessons, students will read closely and discuss an excerpt from Chapter 2,“Hangman,” from the novel Black Swan Green. Students will read from “So anyway, Mum dropped me at Malvern …”...

Apr 02, 2019 - In this lesson, students will consider one of the key ideas in Letter One of Rilke’s Advice to a Young Poet. Students will read and analyze from “Then come close to Nature” to “to whom his whole life...

Apr 02, 2019 - Lesson 17 is the final lesson of Unit 1. Students have finished their close reading of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (pp. 225-246) and will write a formal evidence-based essay about the...

Apr 02, 2019 - This lesson is a continuation of Lesson 13. Student groups will participate in a presentation that shows their group’s analysis of a stage of development from St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by...

Apr 02, 2019 - Lesson 12 has two goals; the first half of the lesson focuses on revisiting the Mid-Unit Assessment, and the second half focuses on close reading the remainder of the short story, St. Lucy’s Home for...

Apr 02, 2019 - Lesson 10 is the mid-unit assessment for this unit. Students will individually write responses to an assessment prompt based on the close reading completed thus far of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls...

Apr 02, 2019 - Lesson 8 focuses on close reading through annotation and answering text-dependent questions in a class discussion using St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. This lesson is focused on the Stage...