In this lesson, students will select key sources, read them closely, work on creating a series of evidence based claims, and use their notes and annotations to expand their EBCs.

In this lesson, students will watch an excerpt from the HBO film, Temple Grandin, comparing the film and the text of Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior.

In this lesson, students will use their research and analysis to communicate an evidence based perspective, using their research portfolios to guide them.

In this lesson, students will analyze examples of contemporary youth poetry and the poetry of Langston Hughes to determine how a writer's environment influences his or her writing. Students will then work in groups to conduct research on how events in the world shaped Hughes's work. In a group presentation to the class, students will cite specific examples that link their interpretation of the poem to the sociohistorical context in which it was written. The lesson culminates with each student creating an original poem that communicates a personal view on a current world issue.

In this resource, students will focus on comparing and analyzing a text, "How Bernard Madoff Did It," with a video in order to deepen their understanding.

In this lesson students are ask to explore ideas using examples of great writers with a particular focus on William Shakespeare. In the Introductory Activity, students look at several authors to begin identifying ways in which authors' lives are reflected in their writing. In the Learning Activity, students watch videos segments from the PBS series and explore the question of whether or not events in Shakespeare's life influenced his plays. Finally, in the Culminating Activity, students examine text from The Tempest to assert whether or not Prospero's speech from Act V, Scene 1 was in fact Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre.

Students will view this slideshow online as the first activity in a blended unit. The activity is meant to introduce the author and some of his works, including several that the students will read as part of the unit. It is primarily intended to spark student interest in the unit. However, it will also aid the students in that they will be better poristioned to read the author's works if they have some sense of what to expect in terms of themes.

     The choice to include such as introductory tool into the unit was based upon prior observations regarding the difficulty of getting students engaged in any lesson when nothing had been done to sprak their interest beforehand.

This guide provides a framework for student literacy analysis of the Essential Principles of Energy--the Energy Literacy video series and the 7 Energy Literacy Principles.

This resource provides a lesson designed to help students understand the use of satire and the myriad technicques that authors may use to add it to their writing. Students use the film Shrek to examine the four techniques of exaggeration, incongruity, reversal and parody. Students prove their understanding by using satire to rewrite a fairly tale.

This resource is a collection of discussion questions and resoures to supplement the film, Finding Antwone Fisher.

This is my PBL that will require students to come together to figure out different ways Northern California officials could have communicated with residents better about the evacuation notice as well as updates about the flood.

In this lesson, students will learn about the 1965 marches from Selma to Montgomery during the Civil Rights Movement. They will examine the Voting Rights of 1965 and watch clips from the movie Selma. Most importantly, students will think critically about sources of information.

This lesson is designed to accompany a reading of a text that has a film version. Students will create visions of a given text and compare them to the film version.

Students will go "inside" the NY Times Best Sellers List to explore recent best sellers across categories, then use those lists as models to create their own in categories of their choosing. They will write one-sentence summaries for each book on their lists, then analyze and explain their choices by writing "Inside the List" articles. Ultimately, students will answer the question, "What do best-seller lists tell us about our culture?"

Students will read scientific text about top predators in Arctic marine ecosystems and how they may be affected by global climate change. Students will work individually or collaboratively to write a report based on the scientific text they have read and participate in a large-group discussion session based on their analysis.

Students will determine central ideas on the concept of illiteracy and will cite several pieces of textual evidence to support their analysis. This lesson was developed by Kimm Murfitt as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.   It has been adapted to have a cultural lens using the lesson from Facing History and Ourselves to help set the stage for students to access the material and set the stage for why different cultures may approach literacy differently.      

George Orwell's experiences as a policemen for the British Empire in India formed the basis for his early writings, including this essay. After receiving some background information on British rule in Burma as well as on Orwell, students will read the essay in order to analyze its use of metaphors, symbolism and irony.

This prereading activity has students explore aspects of the Roaring Twenties to build foundations and make predictions before reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Students read about what it"™s like to be a Muslim teenager growing up in America at this moment, then consider ideas for countering stereotypes and Islamophobia. Lessons include guided informational readings, research and writing suggestions, videos, and resources to continue the discussion.

Learn about the Hiroshima explosion and how the height of the explosion and its effects are linked. Book: Hiroshima by John Hersey