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Close Reading Exemplar: Gettysburg Address (Grades 9-10)9 & 10ELA.RH.9-10.2, ELA.RH.9-10.10, ELA.RH.9-10.3This exemplar has been developed to guide high school students and instructors in a close reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The activities and actions described below follow a carefully developed set of steps that assist students in increasing their familiarity and understanding of Lincoln's speech through a series of text dependent tasks and questions that ultimately develop college and career ready skills identified in the Common Core State Standards. This unit can be broken down into three sections of instruction and reflection on the part of students and their teachers, which is followed by additional activities, some designed for history/social studies and some for ELA classrooms.his close reading exemplar is intended to model how teachers can support their students as they undergo the kind of careful reading the Common Core State Standards require. Teachers are encouraged to take these exemplars and modify them to suit the needs of their students.322
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Revising and Editing an Essay9 & 10ELA.W.9-10.5Students will learn how to revise and edit an essay. In particular, they will focus on pronoun agreement. This is the third lesson in a series of three based upon LEARN NC's 9th grade writing exemplars.122
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Analyzing Visual Texts9 & 10ELA.W.9-10.10In this lesson Students individually consider a visual text and draw conclusions based on what they see. They write about their conclusions and explain the evidence used to make that determination. Students will be able to analyze a visual text. Students will be able to develop and support a claim about the visual text based on evidence found in the text.222
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Cornell Notes9 & 10ELA. W.9-10.10, ELA.RI.9-10.10In this lesson Students use the Cornell notes tool (developed by Walter Pauk from Cornell University) to do close reading of informational text. Students will be able to read closely and analyze the key details of what they read. Students will be able to summarize informational text.222
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Reading Closely: Brain Gain9 & 10ELA.RI.9-10.1, ELA.RI.9-10.2, ELA.RI.9-10.6, ELA.RI.9-10.4This unit develops students' abilities to read closely for textual details and compare authors' perspectives through an examination of a series of texts about US education. Authors of the short readings include Hellen Keller, Ken Robinson, Colin Powell, Maria Montessori, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Arne Duncan, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Horace Mann.333
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Making EBC About Literacy Technique: Grade 10: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost9 & 10ELA.RL.9-10.1, ELA.W.9-10.4, ELA.SL.9-10.1, ELA.W.9-10.9b, ELA,RL.9-10.2, ELA.RL.9-10.4, ELA.RL.9-10.5, ELA.W.9-10.2This unit develops students'� abilities to make evidence-based claims about literary technique through activities based on a close reading of Emily Dickinson�'s "Because I could not stop for Death�"� and Robert Frost�'s "Home Burial.�"�333
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Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor9, 10, 11, & 12ELA.W.11-12.5, ELA.W.9-10.4, ELA.W.9-10.5, ELS.W.11-12.4Students use persuasive writing and an understanding of the characteristics of letters to the editor to compose effective letters to the editor on topics of interest to them.333
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Stephen Colbert and the Role of Political Satire11 & 12ELA,W.11-12.2, ELA.RI.11-12.5This lesson begins with students viewing a Colbert Report program about his Super PAC. Then students read and discuss a profile of Colbert's political satire. A second reading examines some of the responses to it, positive and negative, and encourages students to discuss their own views. Readings include embedded links to Colbert's Super PAC ads. A homework assignment asks students to read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," view additional clips of Stephen Colbert's program, and then compare and contrast these forms of satire.322
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