Grades 9 & 10
Language Arts
Reading
Standard 2

READING COMPREHENSION
(FOCUS ON INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS)


 
Resources
Lesson Plans
Assessments
2.1
Pg. 625 Learning for Life.
2.2
Library, internet, local health organizations, television
2.3
Pg. 3 Making meanings:  Active reading and questioning.
Pg. 4-6 What Happened During the Ice Storm
Pg. 5-6 Teaching Resources A for Elements of Literature Fourth Course
2.4
Pg. 410 - 413 No News From Auschwitz,  Pg. 414 The Butterfly,  Night, By Elie Wiesel.
2.5
Pg. 210-220
2.6
This skill is addressed in Freshman Keyboarding class presented by the business department.
2.7
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2.8
Pg. 328-333 Persuasive writing: Evaluation
2.1
Students form committees to plan a festival celebrating one or more of the arts (poetry, painting, drawing, photography, music, dance, drama).
2.2
Students will write a 700 word research paper on any non-communicable disease to include at least three different sources.  This may also cover Health Education requirements.  Students may also be required to make oral presentations from these research papers see Standard 1 Listening and speaking strategies.
2.3
See Mini-Lesson:  Making Meanings Pg. 3 ATE
Students respond to a group of questions that identify meaning-making strategies.  Students then read What Happened During The Ice Storm  (Pg. 4-6) and fill out the double entry response form on worksheet page 6.  Students classify peer responses and a short review of the story using responses as a basis for the review.  Partners then evaluate reviews.
2.4
Students will compare images, the functions of nature, and paraphrase the ideas that connect these three works together.  Students will discuss which genre, essay, poem, or novel is most effective in conveying the the authors message.
2.5
Students reflect on a quotation from The Bet, by Anton Chekhov.  Students Write a dialogue for the lawyer's first conversation as a free man.  Students take a stand on the issue of life imprisonment vs. the death penalty.  Read the lawyer's letter to his jailer and discuss the lawyer's views.  See Page 220 for complete lesson.
2.6
This skill is addressed in Freshman Keyboarding class presented by the business department.
2.7
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2.8
Students write an evaluation of a story, novel, play, or movie.  See complete lesson plan on page 329 in ATE.
Previously Published Data

1.) As students read a literary work, they record on a chart, issues and problems its characters face and relate them to issues and problems similar to the type people face today. Some example issues and problems for comparison in Romeo and Juliet:

  • Being with a person their parents don't like
  • Secretly getting married
  • Lied to parents 
  • Disobeying the law 
  • Using drugs 

    • Committing suicide
    2.1
    Page 154 in Portfolio Management System for Elements of Literature Fourth Course.  Procedure and Presentation rubric
    2.2
    District rubrics for research papers or teacher created rubric
    2.3
    Answer key for Teaching Resources A pg. 5-6
    2.4
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    2.5
    Pg. 90 in the Portfolio Management System.
    2.6
    This skill is addressed in Freshman Keyboarding class presented by the business department.
    2.7
    Currently Unavailable
    2.8
    See page 103 (Evaluating and revising: Peer review) and 104 (Assessment Rubric) in Portfolio Management System.
    Previously Published Data

    1.) From their chart, students select a current problem to research and write an expository essay using at least three sources, one source being the Internet. Their essay must include the following:
     

  • What experts say about the reasons, causes, and consequences of this problem.

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  • A survey: Poll at least 15 teens about this issue. Create your survey with a minimum of five key questions you developed from your research.

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  • Include your poll results with your research in your paper.

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  • At the end of the report, draw some meaningful conclusions about possible solutions needed to solve this problem.

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    Cite sources and include a bibliography.