Mar 31, 2019 - This is the first and second lesson in Unit 1. As noted in the introduction, AIR provides scaffolding differentiated for ELL/MLL students at the entering (EN), emerging (EM), transitioning (TR), and...
Mar 31, 2019 - This is the first lesson in the Unit 1. As noted in the introduction, AIR provides scaffolding differentiated for ELL students at the entering (EN), emerging (EM), transitioning (TR), and expanding (...
Dec 20, 2018 - In this Grade 12 Literary Criticism Module, students read and analyze Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon, as they continue to build the skills required to craft strong informative essays and...
Jul 29, 2015 - Coda: What Gives This Story Power? Re-examining Powerful Stories
In Lessons 11 and 12, students return to the guiding question that launched this module: What gives stories and poems their enduring...
Sep 16, 2015 - In this 12th grade module, students read, discuss, and analyze four literary texts, focusing on the development of interrelated central ideas within and across the texts. The mains texts in this...
Dec 20, 2018 - In this 12th grade Extension Module, students can go deeper into analyzing arguments, as they outline, analyze, and evaluate the claims that Michelle Alexander makes in The New Jim Crow: Mass...
Sep 16, 2015 - In Module 12.3, students engage in an inquiry-based, iterative research process that serves as the basis of a culminating research-based argument paper. Building on work with evidence-based analysis...
Mar 10, 2016 - Over the course of Module 12.2, students practice and refine their informative writing and speaking and listening skills through formative assessments, and apply these skills in the Mid-Unit and End-...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students peer review each other’s narrative essays to ensure alignment to W.11-13.3.a-f, and revise their drafts based on the feedback. Students learning is assessed via the...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue to revise their narrative essays. Students review the importance of using precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue revising the drafts of their narrative essays. Students first review the purpose and use of structural techniques. Through discussion and examination of one...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue revising the drafts of their narrative essays. Students first review the purpose and use of narrative techniques. Through discussion and examination of one effective...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students begin to revise the drafts of their narrative essays. Students first review the purpose and components of an effective introduction. Through discussion and examination of an...
Jan 26, 2016 - In the third unit of Module 12.1, students continue the process of drafting a narrative essay drawing on the material they developed during the writing lessons of 12.1.1. Students identify a variety...
Jan 26, 2016 - In the first unit of Module 12.1, students are introduced to the skills, practices, and routines of close reading and evidence-based writing and discussion, and engage regularly in the critical...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students participate in a jigsaw discussion to analyze 4 sections of text from chapter 11 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. In these passages, Malcolm fully embraces the teachings of...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read and analyze chapter 10 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, pages 165–171 (from “‘The true knowledge’ reconstructed much more briefly than I received it” to “into which...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue their analysis of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and continue to explore techniques of narrative writing. Students read the opening section of chapter 4, pages 59–62...
Dec 19, 2018 - In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze literary texts, focusing on the authors’ choices in developing and relating textual elements such as character development, point of view, and...
Jul 28, 2015 - A new resource, called the Empire State Information Fluency Continuum, is now available thanks to the NYC School Library System. This resource emphasizes the importance of inquiry in learning and...
Dec 17, 2018 - Module 12.1 includes a shared focus on text analysis and narrative writing. Students read, discuss, and analyze two nonfiction personal narratives, focusing on how the authors use structure, style,...
Feb 05, 2016 - In Module 11.3, students engage in an inquiry-based, iterative process for research. Building on work with evidence-based analysis in Modules 11.1 and 12.2, students explore topics that have multiple...
Jan 23, 2015 - In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze literary and informational texts, focusing on how authors use word choice and rhetoric to develop ideas, and advance their points of view and...
