Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson continues the series of lessons that prepare students to write for their End of Unit 1 Assessment. Today, students build on the work from Lessons 10–12 where they gathered evidence to...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students reread selected passages carefully to gather and analyze textual evidence about why Lyddie should or should not sign the petition. They record the textual evidence they find...

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...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students continue to analyze working conditions in the mill and how they affect Lyddie. • This lesson adds a focus on word choice and figurative language, as students discuss how author Katherine...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students thoroughly analyze Lyddie, the central character of the book. Work Time A serves to synthesize the discussion of Lyddie’s character that students have done in Lessons 2, 3,...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this assessment students plan their two-voice poem.

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson students complete the first part of their end of unit assessment by writing their planned body paragraphs.

Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson introduces the essay prompt for the literary analysis essay that will be the assessment at the end of Unit 2.

Jan 26, 2016 - This lesson is a continuation of the work with the theme of survival in A Long Walk to Water and practice for the type of explanation of evidence that students will do for the End of Unit 2...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson students use a text-based discussion protocol to revisit chapters 1-5 in the novel and discuss points of view.

Jan 26, 2016 - Closing Reading and Summarizing: The Epilogue of Pygmalion