In this lesson, students will decide and write the claim for their essay and the reasons they will use to support their claim.
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In this lesson, students finish the draft of their essay about Lyddie signing the petition.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will synthesize the evidence they have gathered and begin forming their argument of whether Lyddie should or should not sign the petition.
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In this lesson, students begin the writing process for the End of Unit 1 Assessment, an argument essay on Lyddie.
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In this lesson, students will continue to analyze working conditions in the mill and how they affect Lyddie. This lesson adds a focus on word choice and figurative language, as students discuss how author Katherine Paterson’s choice of language helps the readers better understand Lyddie’s working conditions and how they affected her.
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In this lesson, students reread selected passages carefully to gather and analyze textual evidence about why Lyddie should or should not sign the petition.
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In this lesson, students are introduced to and discuss the question about which they will be writing their essay: Should Lyddie sign the petition? They gather and analyze evidence using the Odell Forming Evidence-Based Claims materials.
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A study guide - great for readers who are below grade level - to allow students to dig deeply into A Midsummer Night's Dream and find additionally resources to better dive deeply into the text.
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In this lesson, students receive strategies that will help them understand whichever Shakespeare play they're about to begin reading.
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Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time and still speak today.
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