New Site

We're making a change to the way that we release work for our classes. The main lessons (the things that we'll do in class each day) will now be found at the site "Optimal Beneficial Moreover Detrimental: Classroom." We're keeping this site, with a slightly different name, in order to release a reading a day for students to practice their reading at home. Each post will contain a link to a reading, along with a list of assignments that can be completed for that reading.

Monday, September 3, 2012

1.1. "Charles" and Citing Evidence as Proof RL1./RI1.


Sorry for the awkward title, if you can think of a catchier way to say that, I am all ears*.

The Lesson: Here's the mastery list, meaning the list of information that you need to do one of the jobs that we're supposed to master together.




The Text: "Charles" by Shirley Jackson (Note: This copy was sent to my email by the Library of America's killer "Story of the Week" email. I highly recommend both subscribing to the lists and buying some of the beautiful books that they put out, or at least asking that your library buy them.)

Independent Practice: Given seven sentences that posit ideas about the story, write a text citation sentence.

Assessment: I will spot assess this and label your work emerging, proficient, or expert.



* Note on Compositional Method: That expression, where you take a part, "ears" and have it stand in for the whole "me, listening" is called metonymy, like saying "We cold use another bat on the bench" to mean "We should get another baseball player for our team that is good at hitting." Look, I'm off topic already. Also, you should know that things in parentheses are, by definition, not that important. You use parentheses to say, "Here's something I think interesting, but it's not part of my main idea." So, in the future, you can skip this stuff if you want.

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