Jan 26, 2016 - Students consolidate their understanding of Excerpt 4 by reviewing the answers to the second read questions and then telling a section of the story using the strategies from the Storyteller’s Toolbox...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students begin their work with Excerpt 3 from the Narrative, which they will read several times across Lessons 2–4.

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read the first excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Jan 26, 2016 - Students continue to build their stamina and ability to make meaning of the Narrative through the process of reading each excerpt several times.

Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson offers a quick review of the skill of paraphrasing, which is taught in Module 2; in the event that students did not learn about it in Module 2, there is enough review here to give them a...

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 - 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 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 - Mid-Unit Assessment: Evidence and Inference in Pygmalion

Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson serves as the culminating discussion of Lyddie. This lesson uses the same protocol as in Module 1 (Unit 1, Lesson 9 and Unit 2, Lesson 8). The students should now be familiar with the...

Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson includes the Mid-Unit 1 Assessment. Before students complete the assessment, they have time to review and discuss the reading they did for homework. Their conversation should not focus on...