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1. The Course Organizer Teacher(s): Student: Time: Course Dates: Essential Skills Progression (use PARCC to locate in CCSS) This Course: is about Course Questions: forming new perspectives, beliefs, and opinions through reading, analyzing, and evaluating structures, patterns, and contributions. • cite text evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as draw inferences (R1) • analyze content for central themes and central ideas (R2) • study and apply grammar (L) • study and apply vocabulary (L) • conduct collaborative discussions building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly (SL1) • report findings in an effort to develop an understanding of the subject and to support claims (W7,8,9) How do parts or elements of the structure contribute to the development of the big idea? What conclusions can you draw about the author’s purpose by analyzing the text structure? How can a change within the structure impact its effectiveness? How are patterns identified across multiple texts? How can analyzing patterns contribute to the identification of trends? How can changes to a pattern or a trend create new outcomes? How do patterns and trends impact people, cultures, and/or societies? What defines a contribution and how does it impact people, cultures, and/or societies? Why is it important to evaluate and summarize contributions leading to conclusions? How are new perspectives formed after summarizing the patterns and trends? What contributes to the forming of a perspective? In what ways does an author develop perspectives in text? (e.g., word choice, POV, literary devices, text structure, etc.) How do contributions, patterns, and structures affect a person’s perspectives? How can the evolution of a person’s perspective affect future changes?

2. Course Map This Course: Student: includes Performance Options Community Principles Learning Rituals Critical Concepts Learned in these Units Perspective Development • Motivating Warm-Up • Cooperative Learning • Literature Circles • Touchstones • Essential Questions • Closure/Exit Slip • Course/Unit Organizer Routine • Univ. of Kansas Writing Program • Univ. of Kansas Paraphrase & Summary Program • Close Reading • UDL based • Structured notebooks • Color-coded assignments • Choice of assignments • Differentiated assignments micro concepts summarizing text features text structures theme tone universal theme word choice word study arguments author’s purpose bias context clues drawing conclusions elements of style figurative language foreshadowing inferences mood paraphrasing point of view Perspectives Structures macro concepts Contributions Patterns