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Home > INSTRUCTION > State Standards and Frameworks > English Language Arts > Seed04

 Seed 4: Gr. 10 Unit: The Journey for Social Justice


Essential Question:

What is the basis for the belief that justice will ultimately prevail in American society?


Lesson Calendar

DAY 1 - SEED 1

DAY 2–3 - SEED 2

DAY 4–8 - PLAN 1

DAY 9–10 - SEED 3

DAY 11–15 - PLAN 2

DAY 16 - SEED 4

DAY 17–22 - SEED 5

DAY 23–25 - SEED 6

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Unit Overview

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Lesson seeds are ideas that can be used to build a lesson aligned to the CCSS. Lesson seeds are not meant to be all-inclusive, nor are they substitutes for instruction. When developing lessons from these seeds, teachers must consider the needs of all learners. It is also important to build checkpoints into the lessons where appropriate formative assessment will inform a teachers instructional pacing and delivery.

Lesson Seed 4 - Day 16


Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English when using semicolons, colons, parallel structure, and various types of phrases. Demonstrate understanding of the appropriateness and effectiveness of the use of parallel structure and various types of phrases and clauses for stylistic purposes.


TEXT MODEL*

Letter from a Birmingham Jail and/or President Obama's speech at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial


BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEED


STUDENT OUTCOMES

Students will:

  1. Examine texts to understand the conventions of colon and semicolon use
  2. Examine texts to understand the conventions of the use of parallel structure
  3. Examine texts to understand the conventions of the use of various types of phrases and clauses
  4. Examine texts to analyze the effectiveness of the use parallel structure and various types of phrases and clauses for stylistic purposes
  5. Write texts that demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, and punctuation

*PLEASE NOTE: Consider the need for Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) and/or captioned/described video when selecting texts, novels, videos and/or other media for this lesson. See "Sources for Accessible Media" for suggestions. See also Maryland Learning Links: http://marylandlearninglinks.org http://marylandlearninglinks.org.


CCSS STANDARDS ALIGNMENT

Language

L.9-10.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.9-10.1a Use parallel structure.*
L.9-10.1b Use various types of phrases (noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial, prepositional, absolute) and clauses (independent, dependent; noun, relative, adverbial) to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing or presentations.
L.9-10.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
L.9-10.2a Use a semicolon (and perhaps a conjunctive adverb) to link two or more closely related independent clauses.
L.9-10.2b Use a colon to introduce a list or quotation.
L.9-10.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.

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  Last Updated 3/17/2020 11:56 AM