At the end of this assignment, you will be able to summarize or prepare a list of changes that have taken place in North Carolina since it became a state.
The 12th grade learning experience consists of 7 mostly month-long units aligned to the Common Core State Standards, with available course material for teachers and students easily accessible online. Over the course of the year there is a steady progression in text complexity levels, sophistication of writing tasks, speaking and listening activities, and increased opportunities for independent and collaborative work. Rubrics and student models accompany many writing assignments.Throughout the 12th grade year, in addition to the Common Read texts that the whole class reads together, students each select an Independent Reading book and engage with peers in group Book Talks. Language study is embedded in every 12th grade unit as students use annotation to closely review aspects of each text. Teacher resources provide additional materials to support each unit.
Who decides who among us is civilized? What rules should govern immigration into the United States? Whom should we let in? Keep out? What should we do about political refugees or children without papers? What if they would be a drain on our economy?
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Students read William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest and write a short argument about who in the play is truly civilized.
Students participate in a mock trial in which they argue for or against granting asylum to a teenage refugee, and then they write arguments in favor of granting asylum to one refugee and against granting it to another.
Students read an Independent Reading text and write an informational essay about a global issue and how that relates to their book.
GUIDING QUESTIONS
These questions are a guide to stimulate thinking, discussion, and writing on the themes and ideas in the unit. For complete and thoughtful answers and for meaningful discussions, students must use evidence based on careful reading of the texts.
What role do national identity, custom, religion, and other locally held beliefs play in a world increasingly characterized by globalization?
How does Shakespeare’s view of human rights compare with that in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Who is civilized? Who decides what civilization is or how it’s defined?
How do we behave toward and acknowledge those whose culture is different from our own?
In this lesson, you'll join a small group to share your report and receive more feedback. Group members will choose one report to be presented in Lesson 28 to the whole class. You'll revise, proofread, and prepare the final draft of your report.In this lesson, students will join small groups to share their reports and receive more feedback. Group members will choose one report to be presented in Lesson 28 to the whole class. Students will revise, proofread, and prepare the final draft of their report.
This project unit—a multimedia self-portrait published in digital form—is the capstone of your students' high school careers. It is a chance for them to pause and reflect on where they've been, where they're going, and who they are as a person. Students will reflect on what they want others to know about them: what they want their message to be and what types of media they might use to convey that message. Students will have the opportunity to express themselves in many different formats—through writing, of course, but also through other media of their choosing. Students will be able to convey your message through visual art, photography, a graphic novel, audio, poetry, or video—practically any type of media they want!
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Students will complete a multimedia self-portrait, capturing important aspects of the essence of themselves.
Students will contribute one chapter from their multimedia self-portrait to a class anthology.
Students will present one chapter from their multimedia self-portrait to the class.
GUIDING QUESTIONS
These questions are a guide to stimulate thinking, discussion, and writing on the themes and ideas in the unit. For complete and thoughtful answers and for meaningful discussions, students must use evidence based on careful reading of the texts.
How is late adolescence a moment of internal and external change?
What are the most important qualities of your character—past, present, and future?
How can you portray these key aspects of yourself using multimedia?
BENCHMARK ASSESSMENT: Cold Read
During this unit, on a day of your choosing, we recommend you administer a Cold Read to assess students’ reading comprehension. For this assessment, students read a text they have never seen before and then respond to multiple-choice and constructed-response questions. The assessment is not included in this course materials.
What is an artist’s responsibility to truth? What is the role of truth and facts in poetry, nonfiction, and fiction? Students will explore these questions as they consider the truths they want to convey in their self-portraits. They’ll also start interviewing people who know them well.
This Blended Learning Unit about how we learn about the past is designed to intentionally integrate technology into each lesson while maintaining the integrity of a Social Studies unit created by Oakland Schools, Unit 4: How Do We Learn About the Past. The 30-45 minute lessons are structured so the classroom teacher can balance whole group instruction (Face to Face) with technology (Online) to enhance or provide new learning. Academic Vocabulary is a school initiative in the district this unit was created for, so this is also integrated throughout the unit. This blended unit was also designed for students to use individual iPads, but other devices could be used as well.
Kindergarten students are encouraged to gain an increased awareness of themselves and the world around them in our entry level text in the series.
This module describes different ways to address questions about personality stability across the lifespan. Definitions of the major types of personality stability are provided, and evidence concerning the different kinds of stability and change are reviewed. The mechanisms thought to produce personality stability and personality change are identified and explained.
This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers. This is a set of nine (9) tasks, which may be used for instruction or assessment. Each attachment contains a separate task, rubric, and student recording sheet. The word problems in these tasks involve 'adding to' or 'taking from' a quantity. In these specific problems, the change is unknown. For example:There were 17 ducks in the pond. Some flew away, and now there are 8 ducks in the pond. How many ducks flew away?Remix this resource to include student work samples or addtional tasks.
This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers.
In this lesson, students use their understanding of word problems to sort problems based on type. The focus for students in this lesson shifts from solving word problems to analyzing word problem structures in order to group like problems. The purpose is to help students understand and visualize problems so they will know how to write equations that match and know what operation is needed to solve. This lesson focuses on sorting addition and subtraction word problems with a specific focus on Take Apart and Put Together types. The lesson, however, can be adjusted to use with any problem types you notice students need more experience with. You could also adjust the number size in the problems to use this lesson at different times in the year.
This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.In this lesson, students use their understanding of word problems to sort problems based on type. The focus for students in this lesson shifts from solving word problems to analyzing word problem structures in order to group like problems. The purpose is to help students understand and visualize problems so they will know how to write equations that match and know what operation is needed to solve. This lesson focuses on sorting addition and subtraction word problems with a specific focus on Take Apart and Put Together types. The lesson, however, can be adjusted to use with any problem types you notice students need more experience with. You could also adjust the number size in the problems to use this lesson at different times in the year.
Information on "Feedbacks from the terrestrial carbon cycle signifcantly affect future climate change," is discussed in this article.
A summative model of the processes involved in trees taking carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it as wood and in the soil and a scientific explanation to explain how trees can reverse climate chage.
We know that planting trees can make a positive impact, but will planting a tree a day actually reduce climate change?
There are a variety of proposed solutions for reducing the impacts of climate change. Students research one of their choosing and compare it to the planting trees.
What have we figured out so far about how planting trees can reduce the impacts of climate change?
What are some ideas you have heard of for reducing climate change? What criteria makes a good solution for climate change?