Jan 26, 2016 - Building Background Knowledge: Jigsaw to Build and Share Expertise about the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Part 1

Jan 26, 2016 - Mid-Unit Assessment: Text-Dependent Short-Answer Quiz—The Effects of Natural Disasters

Jan 26, 2016 - Relationships between Key Scientific Concepts: What Causes Earthquakes?

Jan 26, 2016 - Students will create and use an Author’s Opinion, Reasons, and Evidence graphic organizer to record the opinion, reasons, and evidence they identify during a close read of pages 38–45 of Promises to...

Jan 26, 2016 - Mid-Unit Assessment: Identifying Author’s Opinion, Reasons, and Supporting Evidence: “Courage on the Field”

Jan 26, 2016 - Students once again practice the skill of paraphrasing and recording the opinion they identify from a new page of the text in Promises to Keep.

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students deepen their understanding of Jackie Robinson’s life by examining a key period in American history that affected him and his family: the Great Migration.

Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson introduces Promises to Keep, the central text the class will read throughout Unit 2.

Jan 26, 2016 - Mid-Unit Assessment: Identifying Author’s Opinion and Supporting Evidence: Sports in American Culture

Jan 26, 2016 - Identifying Author's Opinion and Evidence: The Value of Sports in People's Lives, Part I

Jan 26, 2016 - Synthesizing Text Details to Explain Relationships: “Medicine and Healing”