Mar 10, 2016 - Over the course of Module 12.2, students practice and refine their informative writing and speaking and listening skills through formative assessments, and apply these skills in the Mid-Unit and End-...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this final lesson of the unit, the End-of-Unit Assessment, students compose a multi-paragraph response to the following prompt: Analyze the effectiveness of the structure Silko uses in her...

Jan 26, 2016 - In the first unit of Module 12.1, students are introduced to the skills, practices, and routines of close reading and evidence-based writing and discussion, and engage regularly in the critical...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students analyze the closing section of text from chapter 19 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, pages 385–389 (from “Anything I do today, I regard as urgent” to “Only the mistakes...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue their analysis of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, focusing on how events, individuals, and ideas interact and develop over the course of the text. In class, students...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students analyze a section from chapter 14 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, pages 268–270 (from “In 1961, our Nation flourished” to “Nothing that Mr. Muhammad ever said to me was...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, the Mid-Unit Assessment, students use textual evidence from chapters 1–11 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X to craft a formal, multi-paragraph response to the following prompt:...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, chapters 8–9, pages 148–153 (from “Early evenings when we were laying low” to “the religion of Islam and it completely...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue their analysis of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by reading three brief excerpts from chapter 6. In these passages, Malcolm X describes a his brother’s visit from...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students begin to draft their personal narratives. Students examine the opening structure of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, paying close attention to the ways in which this...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read and analyze a section from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, chapter 3, pages 42–46 (from “So I went gawking around the neighborhood” to “find a friend as hip as he...