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Stage 1 Desired Results

Stage 1 Desired Results

Established Goals:


CCSS:

  • RL. 11.1 - Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. 

  • RL 11.2 - Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. 

  • RL.11.3 - Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

  • RL.11.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. 

  • RI.11.1 - Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

  • RI.11.2 - Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text. 

  • RI.11.3 - Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text. 

  • W.11.2 - Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

  • W.11.4- Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

 

 

Transfer

Students will be able to independently use their learning to….

 

  • Analyze a text in order to understand theme

  • Produce clear and accurate writing in which the formatting, organization, and style are appropriate for the task, purpose, and audience

Meaning

Understandings

Students will understand…

  • The American Dream varies for individuals 

  • Values and beliefs shape who we are

  • Being a stranger in a strange land 

  • How individuals connect to new/unfamiliar places

Essential Questions

Students will keep considering…

  • What does it mean to be an American? 

  • What is the American dream? 

  • What ideas do early American authors value? 

  • What is the importance of cultural diversity in America?

Acquisition

Students will know…

 

  • The immigrant experience changes over time 

  • How literary devices create meaning in a text

  • How clear and cohesive writing conveys understandings

Students will be skilled at…


  • Analyzing literary devices such as imagery, metaphor, allusion, symbolism and allegory 

  • Writing claim statements

  • Paragraph organization 

  • Close reading techniques

Resources

Texts:


“Quilt of a Country” - Anna Quindlen 

“Puritan Laws and Character” - Henry William Elson 

“Young Goodman Brown” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Rules of The Game” - Amy Tan 

“To His Excellency, General Washington” - Phillis Wheatley

Videos:

Crash Courses - John Green

  • Foundation of American society



Supplemental Resources:

 

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