Description
Includes 5 Activities
Students apply their close reading skills to understand a societal issue as a context for various perspectives, positions, and arguments.
• The teacher presents an overview of the unit and its societal issue.
• Students read and analyze a background text to develop an initial understanding of the issue.
• Students read and analyze a second background text to expand and deepen their understanding of the issue.
• Students develop text-dependent questions and use them to deepen their analysis.
• Students develop and write an evidence-based claim about the nature of the issue.
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 Part 1
Checklists
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 EBA Criteria Checklist
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 TCD Checklist
Handouts
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 Connecting Ideas Handout
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 EBA Terms
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 Evidence-Based Writing Rubric
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 Guiding Questions Handout
Texts
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 Text Sets
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 What is a PED
Tools
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 Delineating Arguments Tool 3C Student Version
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 Delineating Arguments Tool 4C Student Version
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 Forming EBC Tool Student Version
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 Model Argument, Baseball Sharks
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ELA 7 Developing Core Proficiencies, Unit 4 Model Argument, Course Scheduling
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Credits
From EngageNY.org of the New York State Education Department. Developing Core Proficiencies Program: Units in ELA Literacy.
Available from engageny.org/resource/developing-core-proficiencies-program-units-in-ela-literacy; accessed 2015-05-29.
Newer versions may exist from Expeditionary Learning.
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