11th Grade ELA
(14 Units, 147 Lessons)
Unit 13 - Transcendentalism(13 Lessons)
Introduction To Transcendentalism11th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:Exposing students to the set of ideas of a literary movement helps them make sense of a text from that period.
A Process To Help Students Access "Self-Reliance", Day 111th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:Looking closely at every single important part of a complex text is time consuming but necessary for students to make sense of it.
A Process To Help Students Access "Self-Reliance," Day 2 of 211th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:Students take one small step towards independence by relying more on each other than on me for help making sense of this challenging text.
Addressing An Additional Challenge In "Self-Reliance": Complex Sentence Structure11th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:Multiple forms of support are necessary to help students access a text beyond their reach.
Analyzing Evidence In "Self-Reliance"11th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:Highly scaffolded writing lessons to avoid the wild, wild west of writing.
Organizing Evidence Selected From “Self-Reliance” Around Central Ideas11th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:We spend a lot of time on a single skill, developing topic sentences that communicate large ideas, because it is a very important skill.
Scaffolding Writing To Establish More Complex Ideas In Their Claims11th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:Hoping that scaffolding them to death brings life to student writing.
Helping Students Establish A Central, Controlling Idea In Writing11th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:Stepping into the abstract is new territory for both of us.
Tracking the Development of Central Ideas In "Self-Reliance," Day 1 of 2 11th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:Multiple central ideas: A big push for a Common Core task with which students need support.
Tracking the Development of Central Ideas in "Self-Reliance," Day 2 of 211th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:The type of thinking required to struggle through a complex task is worth the time, even when the work product indicates otherwise.
Introduction To Thoreau's Walden11th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:Making inexperienced readers face challenging language, even though what they want to do is run away.
A Nature Walk to Wrap Up the Transcendentalist Unit11th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:A nature walk in Los Angeles? We get creative with our definition of nature as we spend some time reflecting on the natural elements in the immediate surrounding.
Setting Goals11th Grade ELA» Unit:Transcendentalism
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Big Idea:Setting goals is important regardless of the time of the year.
