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 - 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 - This lesson continues the Mid-Unit 2 Assessment begun in Lesson 11. Students will complete Mid-Unit 2 Assessment, Part II. In this assessment, students compare two texts. One of the texts is “Can You...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson students continue to build background knowledge through close reading of the excerpt of informational text first read in the previous lesson, this time focusing on vocabulary and using...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue to develop their ability to cite evidence in their writing. They practice gathering and using evidence in a full response to a constructed response question. In...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson students practice discussion and note-taking routines introduced in the previous lesson.

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson students compare the historical accounts of the Sudanese civil war in informational text to accounts in the novel.

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 - 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.