Essential Question:
What is the basis for the belief that justice will ultimately prevail in American society?
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
Download Seeds, Plans, and Resources (zip)
Unit Overview
Send Feedback to MSDE’s Reading Team
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.
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.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail and/or President Obama's speech at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial
Students will:
*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.
Language