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 this lesson, students will continue reading a section of “Solarium” from Black Swan Green, from “’A young man needs “to” The last drops were the thickest” (pp. 145–148). Students will consider the...
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...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students will be introduced to skills, practices, and routines that will be used on a regular basis in the ELA classroom throughout the year: close reading, annotating text,...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this unit, students will continue to practice and refine routines such as close reading, annotation, identification of evidence, and participation in collaborative discussions. Students will study...
Apr 02, 2019 - In this lesson, students will be introduced to the End-of-Unit Summative Assessment prompts, one of which they will respond to in the next lesson: How might Rilke’s counsel also apply to Jason? Or...
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...
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...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this first lesson of the unit, students will build their close reading skills as they work carefully through the fourteen-line prologue of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This lesson serves as the...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will develop their close reading skills as they begin to work carefully through the short excerpt Act 1.1.206–236. In this passage, Romeo discusses his unrequited love for...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will continue to develop their close reading skills as they resume their exploration of the short excerpt 1.1.206–236 begun in Lesson 2. In this passage, Romeo discusses his...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue to build their close reading skills as they explore the excerpt 1.3.64–100, in which Lady Capulet discusses marriage with Juliet.
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will begin a close reading analysis of Romeo and Juliet’s first encounter at the Capulet Ball (1.5.92–109). Students will focus on Romeo’s initial overture to Juliet in lines...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will continue their close reading analysis of Romeo and Juliet’s first encounter at the Capulet Ball (1.5.92–109). Students will explore how Juliet’s response to Romeo’s...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson is the first in a three-lesson arc that addresses Act 2.2, the balcony scene. Close readings will focus on building student understanding of Romeo and Juliet as they influence each other’...
Jan 26, 2016 - This is the second lesson in a three-lesson arc that focuses on close reading of the iconic balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. The text addressed in this lesson is Act 2.2.52–106.
Dec 14, 2016 - In this lesson, students read and analyze William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 3.1, lines 59–110 (from “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford” to “I have it, and soundly too. Your houses!”)....
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, the first in a two-lesson arc, students will continue their exploration of Romeo’s character development as they begin to work carefully through the Act 3 excerpt 3.1.108–138, in...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students will continue to develop their close reading skills as they resume their analysis of Tybalt’s death scene in Act 3 (3.1.108–138). In conjunction with Lesson 11, Lesson 12...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson is a close reading of Act 3.2.1–31, Juliet’s speech while she waits for Romeo, before she has found out that Romeo killed her cousin Tybalt. The lesson will ask students to draw a...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson is a close reading of Romeo’s reaction to his banishment, in conversation with Friar Laurence. The text for this lesson is Act 3 Scene 3. Students will read lines 1–11 for comprehension...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson is the first in a two-lesson arc that addresses Juliet’s conversation with Friar Laurence, during which Juliet threatens suicide and the Friar proposes the plan that shapes the events of...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson is the second in a two-lesson arc that addresses Juliet’s conversation with Friar Laurence, during which Juliet threatens suicide and the Friar proposes the plan that shapes the events of...
