May 16, 2014 - Building Background Knowledge on Human Rights: Close Reading of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
This lesson includes many simple protocols or “routines” that support...
May 17, 2014 - Building Background: A Short History of Human Rights
Display learning targets on board, chart paper, or document camera
Cut one copy of The Short History of Human Rights handout into 8 sentence...
May 30, 2014 - Vocabulary Introduction: Human Rights
Review Vocabulary strategies and Think Pair Share and Write- Pair-Share protocols (see Appendix 1)
For Work Time 2B (flash cards), the focus is on how to make...
May 17, 2014 - Close Reading: The Introduction to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This lesson reinforces the vocabulary work from Lesson 3, and introduces a new vocabulary strategy: using morphology (word...
May 30, 2014 - Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Explaining Human Rights
Review Quiz-Quiz-Trade in Vocabulary Strategies (Appendix 1)
Review Write-Pair-Share and Fist to Five protocols (Appendix 1)
If students finish the Mid-...
May 30, 2014 - Close Reading: “Unpacking” Specific Articles of the UDHR
In this lesson and Lesson 7, students will become “experts” on 11 specific Articles from the UDHR. These Articles were chosen specifically...
May 30, 2014 - Close Reading: Becoming Experts on Specific Articles of the UDHR
This lesson builds directly on Lesson 6. Students use the Close Reading protocol with increasing independence to build and share...
May 17, 2014 - Summarizing Complex Ideas: Comparing the Original UDHR and the “Plain Language” Version
Review Vocabulary strategies and Write-Pair-Share protocols (see Appendix 1)
May 30, 2014 - Main Ideas in Informational Text: Analyzing a Firsthand Human Rights Account for Connections to Specific Articles of the UDHR
In this lesson students continue to work with the firsthand account they...
May 17, 2014 - End of Unit 1 Assessment: On-Demand Analysis of a Human Rights Account
"From Kosovo to the United States” is a challenging text. Consider having ELLs or struggling readers read through section 1 (...
May 30, 2014 - BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: LEARNING ABOUT THE HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING OF ESPERANZA RISING (CHAPTER 1: “AGUASCALIENTES, MEXICO, 1924”)
May 30, 2014 - GETTING TO KNOW ESPERANZA (CHAPTER 2: “LAS UVAS/GRAPES”)
This lesson introduces a new small group structure: Triad Talk. These reading and discussion groups will be used throughout the study of...
May 30, 2014 - INFERRING ABOUT CHARACTERS BASED ON HOW THEY RESPOND TO CHALLENGES (CHAPTER 3: “LAS PAPAYAS/PAPAYAS”)
This lesson draws directly on the knowledge students built during Unit 1 about human rights....
May 30, 2014 - INFERRING ABOUT CHARACTERS BASED ON HOW THEY RESPOND TO CHALLENGES (CHAPTER 4: “LOS HIGOS/FIGS”)
This lesson builds directly on Lesson 3, and reinforces a pattern of analysis that students will use...
May 30, 2014 - CONNECTING INFORMATIONAL TEXT WITH LITERATURE: BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MEXICAN IMMIGRATION, CALIFORNIA, AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION
May 17, 2014 - CONTRASTING TWO SETTINGS (CHAPTER 6: “LOS MELONES/CANTALOUPES”)
This lesson begins to introduce students to the idea of central metaphors (or symbols) in the novel. This purpose links directly to RL....
May 17, 2014 - POINT OF VIEW: COMPARING ESPERANZA’S AND ISABEL’S PERSPECTIVES ABOUT LIFE IN THE CAMP (CHAPTER 7: “LAS CEBOLLAS/ONIONS”)
This lesson includes a close reading of pages 116–117, which is done as a full...
May 17, 2014 - 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...
May 17, 2014 - 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...
May 17, 2014 - 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...
May 30, 2014 - BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: WHY DO WORKERS STRIKE? (CHAPTER 11: “LOS AGUACATES/AVOCADOS”)
This lesson refocuses students on the direct connections between the themes in Esperanza Rising and the...
May 30, 2014 - CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: SHOULD THE FARMWORKERS IN ESPERANZA RISING GO ON STRIKE? (CHAPTER 12: “LOS ESPÁRRAGOS/ASPARAGUS”)
This lesson repeats the Jigsaw structure students have used several times,...
May 17, 2014 - GATHERING EVIDENCE AND DRAFTING A TWO-VOICE POEM (CHAPTER 13: “LOS DURAZNOS/PEACHES”)
During Lessons 13 and 14, students work with the last two chapters of the novel, but with less teacher support....
May 17, 2014 - WRITING, CRITIQUE, AND REVISING: TWO-VOICE POEMS (CHAPTER 14: “LAS UVAS/GRAPES”)
In Advance: Review Chapter 14 assigned for homework the night before in order to lead the oral chapter review.
Review...
