Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson is the End-of-Unit Assessment for Unit 3. In this lesson, students craft a multi-paragraph response analyzing the relationship between Woolf’s text and the character of Ophelia from...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students engage with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, continuing to build skills for close reading and analysis of nonfiction as well developing their ability to identify and...
Jan 26, 2016 - "In this lesson, students analyze William Carlos Williams’s poem “Raleigh Was Right” and explore how this contemporary voice transforms the conversation begun by Marlowe and Raleigh. Students...
Jan 26, 2016 - In the first unit of Module 1, students are introduced to many of the foundational skills, practices, and routines that they build upon and strengthen throughout the unit: close reading, annotating...
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 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 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 read paragraph 14 through the end of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” in which the narrator finally admits his murderous deed to the police. Students will analyze how Poe drives the...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read paragraphs 8–13 of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and analyze the text through an evidence-based discussion. In this excerpt, the tension builds as the narrator finally murders...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students closely read paragraphs 4 through 7 of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and respond to questions about the text. In this excerpt, the actions of the eighth night are slowly revealed as...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students reread and analyze paragraphs 1 and 2 of the “The Tell-Tale Heart,” in which Poe introduces the narrator’s reason for killing the old man.Students will explore how Poe begins...
Jan 26, 2016 - "In this first lesson of the unit and the module, students will begin an exploration of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” They will listen to a masterful reading of the text and begin to...
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 unit, students continue to develop habits and skills related to close reading, annotation, using evidence, building vocabulary, and participating in structured discussion, and they do so with...
Sep 30, 2014 - In Module 10.1, students engage with literature and nonfiction texts and explore how complex characters develop through their interactions with each other, and how these interactions develop central...
Nov 13, 2014 - In this module, students will read, discuss, and analyze contemporary and classic texts, focusing on how complex characters develop through interactions with one another and how authors structure...
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,...
