PowerPoint Presentations and questionnaires for this unit where students engage with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, building skills for close reading and analysis of nonfiction. Throughout 11.1.3, students learn to approach informational texts by analyzing an author’s use of evidence and rhetoric to support her point of view. Students read an excerpt from A Room of One’s Own that considers what would have happened to a woman of Shakespeare’s genius during Shakespeare’s time. PDF: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/chapter3.html

Power Points Presentation/lesson plans for ELA Module 1.1. In this first unit, students will explore the question: How do culture, time, and place influence the development of identity? Through a study of the development of character in the novel A Long Walk to Water, students will immerse themselves in the experiences of the people of Southern Sudan during the Sudanese Civil War.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Questions for the novel and video<br />Aligned to Common Core State Standards: RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.5, RL.11-12.1, RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.5

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald with evidence-based claims lessons. Students use Evidence-Based Claims and textual exploration to interpret character, choices and consequences. Small group work emphasized. Fitzgerald's use of symbolism and motif are also explored and developed.

This unit focuses on the historical era of industrializing America, and builds students’ background knowledge about what working conditions are and how they affect workers. The unit begins with a lesson that engages students in the guiding questions about working conditions that connect all three units in the module. Students then read the novel Lyddie, about a girl who goes to work in the Lowell mills, with an emphasis on CCLS RL.7.3, which is about how plot, character, and setting interact in literature.

Spring Board curriculum converted to Powerpoint presentation anoted with lesson plans. Lessons double as presentation to guide class activities. Aligned to Common Core State Standards: RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2 , RL.9-10.3 , RL.9-10.4 , RL.9-10.6

SpringBoard lesson plans and presentation.<br />Aligned to Common Core State Standard: RL.8.10

Four Week Lesson Plan for examining "ism"s found in To Kill A Mockingbird. Lesson plans and handouts designed to increase literacy, comprehension and other language related skills across the core curriculum. Aligned to Common Core State Standard: RL.9-10.10

Invisible Man My Past Is Present (Historical Events Having Current Impact on Cultural Events) The Invisible Man serves as the foundation for the exploration of how events of the past continue to have impact on today’s society. The students will write three to five page report about a cultural event that had directly, or indirectly, influenced their lives or write a on a legal case that has direct, or indirect influence on their lives (e.g. Brown Vs. The Board of Education). Aligned to Common Core State Standards: RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2 , RL.9-10.3 , RL.9-10.4 , RL.9-10.5

PowerPoint Presentation/Lesson Plans for the 3rd unit of Module 10.1; students develop and continue to solidify the skills and practices of close reading, vocabulary acquisition, participation in diverse discussions, and evidence collection and organization. Students continue to engage with the development of central ideas and characters in their analysis of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and expand their understanding of informational standards as they work through the complex questions raised by H. G. Bissinger’s literary non-fiction text, Friday Night Lights. RL.9.1

Lesson plans and handouts designed to increase literacy, comprehension and other language related skills across the core curriculum.

PowerPoint presentation/lesson plans for teaching and exploring various editorials via EBC.

SpringBoard lesson plans/presentation for Coming of Age. Aligned to Common Core State Standards: RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.10

To Kill A Mockingbird serves as the touchstone for the exploration of various forms of prejudices: sexism, ageism, racism and elitism. The students will explore and develop these issues through the use of evidence-based claims and close reading. The students will cite examples and quotations from the text. The unit emphasizes partner and small group work. Quizzes and other projects can be found under http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/To-Kill-A-Mockingbird-50009642/

Spring Board curriculum converted to Powerpoint presentation anoted with lesson plans. Lessons double as presentation to guide class activities. Aligned to Common Core State Standards: RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2 , RL.9-10.3 , RL.9-10.4 , RL.9-10.6

The Count of Monte Cristo serves as the touchstone for exploring personal choice and the cost of those choices. Themes of Justice,revenge, attitude and other themes are explored. The students will explore and develop these issues through the use of evidence-based claims and close reading. The students will cite examples and quotations from the text. The unit emphasizes partner and small group work. For remediation - plot and plot line elements included.

Power Point Presentations/Lesson Plans for Riot, a novel (in play format) by Walter Dean Myers with various short essay assignments. (The story is about a young bi-racial girl who lives through the New York riots during the Civil War.) Included a supplemental film, An Imitation of Life, for further development of the exploration of being bi-racial in America. (A study guide can be found under the same title.)

PowerPoint presentations for reading the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; also works with video presentation. Aligned to Common Core State Standards: RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.5, RL.11-12.1, RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.5

What Is An American? (Who Am I? Issue of Identity and Culture) Down These Mean Streets serves as the foundation for the exploration of identity and culture.The students will explore how their cultural heritage influences their identities. Each student will identify, at least one, cultural lineage with which he identifies (e.g., I identify myself as an American Jew). The students will explore and develop historical and cultural highlights of their heritages. The report, three to five pages in length will include food,biographies,myths and folktales historical benchmarks.

The Joy Luck Club serves as the foundation for the exploration of how mothers influence our lives. The students will complete an I Search Project (a variation on the standard autobiography). The students will also research the mean or origins of their given and surnames. The research will be blended into a ten page I Search report and presentation. Aligned to Common Core State Standards: RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2 , RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5

Lesson Plans/Presentations dealing with "Choices and Influences". <br> SpringBoard 7th Grade Unit 2 (Advertising)<br />Aligned to Common Core State Standard: W.7.2