Aug 26, 2015 - Myths: Not Just Long Ago
In this module, students are involved in a deep study of mythology, its purposes, and elements. Students will read Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief (780L), a high-interest...
Aug 26, 2015 - Finding Home: Refugees
In this module, students will develop their ability to read and understand complex text as they consider the challenges of fictional and real refugees. In the first unit,...
Aug 26, 2015 - In this 8 eight-week module, students explore the experiences of people of Southern Sudan during and after the Second Sudanese Civil War. They build proficiency in using textual evidence to support...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson students engage in a peer critiique of their literary analysis then learn about the use of pronouns and incorporate both the feedback and lesson into their revisions.
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson students finish their end of unit assessment by incorporating revisions from the previous lessons to create a final literary analysis.
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson introduces students to Module 4A: This Is Your Brain—Plugged In. Students consider a short video and then participate in a modified Gallery Walk to preview and connect the learning that...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson introduces students to two important classroom routines: Thinking Logs and the Brain Development anchor chart. They also continue to add to the Domain-Specific Vocabulary anchor chart.
Jan 26, 2016 - "Students return to the article “Teens and Decision Making” for the final time in this lesson. This lesson opens with students self-assessing their ability to analyze the main idea and supporting...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson focuses on SL.7.2, a standard that students have not worked with in other modules. Although analyzing the main idea and supporting details is not a new skill, applying it to the video...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson is the Mid-Unit 1 Assessment, which centers on SL.7.2 and RI. 7.7. Students are given an opportunity to practice with a partner before the assessment begins.
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue to read excerpts of the “The Digital Revolution and the Adolescent Brain Evolution.” Taking enough time to add to the anchor chart will support students in using...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue to read excerpts from “The Digital Revolution and the Adolescent Brain Evolution.” Because students will be reading several texts in Unit 2; today’s learning will be...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue to read excerpts from “The Digital Revolution and the Adolescent Brain Evolution.” Students should work more independantly today with the ability to practice making...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read and analyze an informational text that acts as a bridge between the building background on neuroscience texts in this unit and the argument texts about the effects of...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students take the End of Unit 1 Assessment and they analyze the main idea of an informational text. The text today is “You Trouble” by Justin O’Neill.
Jan 26, 2016 - This is the first lesson in a full unit arc that scaffolds background knowledge, research skills, and note-taking toward a final written argument in which students will present a position on whether...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson draws on students’ understanding of main idea and supporting details from the previous unit but marks a shift in genre that students are reading.
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read an argument text which links neuroscience and digital media. This lesson continues the implementation of the Tracing an Argument note-catcher, which students will use...
Jan 26, 2016 - Today’s lesson is students’ formal introduction to the overarching research question of the unit: “What are the potential benefits and risks of entertainment screen time, particularly to the...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson offers a quick review of the skill of paraphrasing, which is taught in Module 2. Students who have not done Module 2 will have plenty of review to catch up. This lesson also continues the...
Jan 26, 2016 - The purpose of this lesson is to give students a sense of how differing arguments can support the same claim. In categorizing the types of evidence the researchers use, the students will begin to see...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson completes the arc of pro-screen time argument texts and begins the arc of anti-screen time argument texts. This balance of argumentative texts ensures that students have a wide and...
Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson ties in with the concept of cascading consequences, which will be introduced in Lesson 13. Students should discuss how the consequences in Question 3 are “cascading consequences”—that is...
