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Curriculum

Overview

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Unit 1 Overview

Cycle 0

Cycle 1

Cycle 2

Cycle 3

Unit Questions: How are humans and nature interdependent? How do humans affect nature?

Writing Prompt: Should humans be responsible for solving problems such as animal extinction and environmental issues?

Argumentative Essay

Cycle Question: Should wolves be reintroduced into national parks?

Cycle Question: Should bodies of water, like rivers and lakes, have the same rights as humans?

Is It Time to Reassess our Relationship with Nature?

Unit 2 Overview

Cycle 0

Cycle 1

Cycle 2

Cycle 3

Unit Questions: What does fair treatment look like? HOw can people stand up for their rights and the rights of others? What can people do to change things that are unfair?

Cycle Question: Do you agree with Joelito’s decision? Why? What would you have done?

Cycle Question: Which environment(s) do you think projects animals’ rights the best: the wilderness, zoos, or our homes?

Writing Prompts: Whether animals should be held in captivity? Whether we should protest the unfair treatment of workers? Or an opinion on another important issue.

Op-Ed

Unit Questions: What does fair treatment look like? How can people stand up for their rights and the rights of others? What can people do to change things that are unfair?

Unit 3 Overview

Unit Questions: How do language, race, and identity impact people’s daily lives?

Cycle Question:How would you persuade lawmakers to support the Crown Act in order to protect people's right to

express their identity through their hair?

Cycle question: How could you convince someone that people can keep a connection to a culture when they don’t speak all the languages of that culture?

Writing Prompts: Write a testimonio about your identity and why it is important in your life.

Testimonio

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Cycle 1

Cycle 2

Cycle 3

Unit Questions: How do language, race, and identify impact people’s daily lives?

CLAVES Unit Structure

CLAVES Units

7

CLAVES Lesson Plan Format, Day 1-5

All lesson plans start with the unit questions, DR question, language targets, lesson objectives, and relevant materials...

CLAVES Lesson Plan Format, Day 1-5

Followed by 10 - 25 minute blocks focused on “Reading and Embedded Language” and “Extended Language Work”

CLAVES Lesson Plan Format, Day 6

Day 6 is a dialogic, collaborative discussion day

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Writing Cycle Overview

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Curriculum

Overview