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Topic: Common Core Learning Standards

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    Students Studying

    Grade 12 ELA Module 1, Unit 3

    Jan 26, 2016 - In the third unit of Module 12.1, students continue the process of drafting a narrative essay drawing on the material they developed during the writing lessons of 12.1.1. Students identify a variety...
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    Graduating students

    Grade 12 ELA Module 1, Unit 1

    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...
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    Quilts made by students from General Brown CSD

    Grade 4 ELA Module 1A, Unit 3

    Jan 26, 2016 - Unit 3 expands on the conversation around symbolism and culture begun in Unit 1 to incorporate global perspectives. Students listen to, view, and close read informational texts regarding the...
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    helping with homework

    Grade 4 ELA Module 1A, Unit 2

    Jan 26, 2016 - In the second unit, students read an informational text to deepen their knowledge of the Haudenosaunee with a focus on determining main ideas and supporting details, notetaking, using context clues...
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    high school students working together

    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 2

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students develop these close reading skills as they examine Shakespeare’s Macbeth. They also continue to develop their oral presentation and argument writing skills through a series of activities...
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    Boy asking question

    Grade 10 ELA Module 4, Unit 1

    Jan 26, 2016 - Students read E. B. White’s personal essay “Death of a Pig.” Students analyze how White unfolds and draws connections between key events and ideas in the text while developing and refining his...
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    Students working in library

    Grade 11 ELA Module 1, Unit 3

    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...
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    Boy Graduating

    Grade 11 ELA Module 1, Unit 2

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students continue to develop skills, practices, and routines that will be used on a regular basis in the English Language Arts classroom throughout the year: close reading, annotating...
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    Student studying

    Grade 11 ELA Module 1, Unit 1

    Jan 26, 2016 - In the first unit of Module 1, students are introduced to the skills, practices, and routines of close reading, annotating text, and evidence-based discussion and writing, especially through text-...
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    Students working in library

    Grade 10 ELA Module 3, Unit 3

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students engage in the writing process with the goal of synthesizing and articulating their research into argument writing. The end product of this unit is a final draft of a research-...
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    Student

    Grade 10 ELA Module 3, Unit 2

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students continue the research process begun in Unit 1. Students begin to deeply engage in this iterative, non-linear process with the goal of deepening students’ understanding of...
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    Student reading

    Grade 10 ELA Module 3, Unit 1

    Jan 26, 2016 - "In the first unit of Module 10.3, students continue to work on skills, practices, and routines introduced in Modules 10.1 and Module 10.2: reading closely, annotating text, and evidence-based...
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    Students in class

    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 3

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students encounter three documents focusing on human rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948; Eleanor Roosevelt’s “On the Adoption of...
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    Work Group

    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 2

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students engage with Julia Alvarez’s autobiographical essay, “A Genetics of Justice,” continuing to build skills for close reading and analysis as well developing their understanding of...
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    Students working in library

    Grade 10 ELA Module 2, Unit 1

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students read Martin Luther King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” alongside three short poems, focusing on how King develops his argument for direct action on civil rights. Students...
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    Student

    Grade 10 ELA Module 1, Unit 3

    Jan 26, 2016 - In the third unit of Module 1, students develop and continue to solidify the skills and practices of close reading, vocabulary acquisition, participation in diverse discussions, and evidence...
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    Students working in library

    Grade 10 ELA Module 1, Unit 2

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students revisit and further develop many of the foundational skills, practices, and routines that they explored in Unit 1: close reading, annotating text, vocabulary acquisition, and...
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    Grade 10 ELA Module 1, Unit 1

    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...
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    Students working on computers

    Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1

    Feb 05, 2016 - Grade 9 ELA Module 4 is a one-unit module. Please refer to the Grade 9 ELA Module 4 overview page.
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    Student in library

    Grade 9 ELA Module 3, Unit 3

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students engage in the writing process with the goal of synthesizing and articulating their evidence-based research perspective in writing. The end product of this unit is a final draft...
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    Students working on computer

    Grade 9 ELA Module 3, Unit 2

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students continue the research process begun in Unit 1. Students begin to deeply engage in this iterative, non-linear process with the goal of deepening students’ understanding of...
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    Graduation

    Grade 9 ELA Module 3, Unit 1

    Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students read Chapter 1 of Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson’s, Animals in Translation. The text serves two primary functions: first, students analyze how Temple Grandin develops and...
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    Student in class

    Grade 9 ELA Module 2, Unit 3

    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...
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    Student

    Grade 9 ELA Module 2, Unit 2

    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...