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Common Core: ELA
CCLS - ELA: RL.5.2
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- Reading Literature
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- Key Ideas and Details
- State Standard:
- Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
24 Results
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- We have two videos for small groups of educators to learn from the Common Core in practice. The first video does not include captions of evidence of Common Core alignment. The second video includes...
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- End of Unit Assessment: Perspectives on Natural Disasters
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- Mid-Unit Assessment: Analyzing a New Narrative about a Natural Disaster, Part II
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- Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Analyzing a New Narrative about a Natural Disaster, Part I
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- Analyzing Point of View: Inferring about the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on People Living in New Orleans
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- Reading Literature about Natural Disasters: Inferring about the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on People Living in New Orleans
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- Analyzing Images and Language: Inferring about the Natural Disaster in Eight Days
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- Reading Literature about Natural Disasters: Inferring about Human Impact through an Analysis of Eight Days: A Story of Haiti
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- This English Language Arts Common Core video features fifth grade students from John F. Kennedy Intermediate School located in Deer Park, New York. This lesson features: Focus Standard RL.5.1: Quote...
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- A RAINFOREST FOLKTALE: DETERMINING THE MESSAGE OF “THE WINGS OF THE BUTTERFLY,” A TUKUNA PEOPLE TALE The folk tale is read aloud in order for students to enjoy the flow of the story. This lesson...
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- Researching to Build Knowledge and Teaching Others: Biodiversity in Rainforests of the Western Hemisphere This module—intended to be used in conjunction with a Social Studies unit about Latin America...
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- DRAFTING INDIVIDUAL READERS THEATER SCRIPTS FOR A SPECIFIC SCENE: NARROWING TEXT FOR OUR READERS THEATER SCRIPTS In advance: Have students’ UDHR category cards and Esperanza Rising novels, with...
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- LAUNCHING READERS THEATER GROUPS: IDENTIFYING PASSAGES FROM ESPERANZA RISING FOR READERS THEATER THAT CONNECT TO THE UDHR Prepare for Teacher Model (use pages 46-47 from Esperanza Rising) Note that...
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- IDENTIFYING THEME: CONNECTING PASSAGES FROM ESPERANZA RISING TO HUMAN RIGHTS This lesson begins the first series of writing lessons in this module. Emphasize to students that writing is more than...
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- END-OF-UNIT 2 ASSESSMENT: ON-DEMAND ANALYTICAL ESSAY ABOUT HOW ESPERANZA CHANGES OVER TIME Note, because this is an on-demand assessment students will need to complete their essays independently,...
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- PARAGRAPH WRITING, PART II For this writing assignment, students are not given a formal rubric. Rather, they work with the teacher to create “criteria for success.” The rationale behind this is to...
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- PARAGRAPH WRITING, PART I: HOW ESPERANZA RESPONDS ON THE TRAIN (REVISITING CHAPTER 5: “LAS GUAYABAS/GUAVAS”) In this lesson, students revisit Chapter 5: “Las Guayavas/Guavas.” In advance, reread...
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- REVISITING BIG METAPHORS AND THEMES; REVISING AND BEGINNING TO PERFORM TWO VOICE POEMS This lesson includes time for a few groups to perform their Two-Voice Poems. There is more time in Lessons 16–18...
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- CHARACTERS CHANGING OVER TIME (CHAPTER 10: “LAS PAPAS/POTATOES”) This lesson begins to lay the foundation for students’ End of Unit 2 Assessment, in which they write an essay about how Esperanza...
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- MID-UNIT 2 ASSESSMENT AND DISCUSSING THEMES IN ESPERANZA RISING: (CHAPTER 9: “LAS CIRUELAS/PLUMS”) Review Chapter 9, “Las Papas/Plums” from Esperanza Rising, and the answers to Mid-Unit 2 Assessment...
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- UNDERSTANDING THEMES IN ESPERANZA RISING This lesson goes into more depth on the concept of theme, which was briefly touched on in Lesson 6. Students may not have time in Part B of work time to...
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- BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: LEARNING ABOUT THE HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING OF ESPERANZA RISING (CHAPTER 1: “AGUASCALIENTES, MEXICO, 1924”)
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- CASE STUDY: ESPERANZA’S STORY In this second unit, students will apply their new learning about human rights through a case study of how a fictional character responds to human rights challenges....
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- Becoming a Close Reader and Writing to Learn: Stories of Human Rights What are human rights, and how do real people and fictional characters respond when those rights are challenged? Students will...