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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application: Teenage Brain: Prepare for a Class Discussion

For Students 9th
Review the academic conversation reference guide, the conversation stems, the class discussion norms, and the discussion question.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application: Teenage Brain: Review Argumentative Claims

For Students 9th
Review argumentative claims in preparation for a discussion about age-restricted privileges.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Summarizing Research Sources

For Students 9th Standards
We will summarize the sources used in our research to establish our initial understanding.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Answer Questions From Articles

For Students 9th Standards
Answer questions about the information in articles to deepen your understanding of the teenage brain. Review your response to the text-specific question to evaluate the information in your sources.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Reflect on Composing Work

For Students 9th Standards
Reflect on how composing your work contributed to understanding the question "Should parents limit their teen's access to social media?"
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Teen Decision Making and Behavior

For Teachers 9th Standards
Students research an age restricted privilege/right such as driving, drinking, and voting. Students conduct research to answer questions including: Why was the age limit for your privilege determined? When was it determined? Students use...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic. This will help you understand the writing task.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Answer Questions About Ideas and Topics

For Students 9th Standards
Answer questions about ideas and topics shared across texts to extend your understanding of complex texts and build your knowledge of the effect of social media on the brain. This will help us evaluate claims across texts.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Answer Questions About Ideas and Topics

For Students 9th
We will answer questions about ideas and topics shared across texts to extend our understanding of complex texts and build our knowledge of social media's effect on the teen brain . This will help us gain a deeper understanding of the...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Review Claims

For Students 9th
We will review the claims to evaluate the information in "How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers." This will help us deepen our understanding of the text.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Reflect Using a Discussion Tool

For Students 9th
After a discussion, reflect using a discussion tool. Explain how the points, evidence, and explanations shared by your peers during the discussion support or change your thinking. Then revise your claim as needed.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders read three informational texts to understand how social media affects the teen brain
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic to help understand the task.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Girls Playing High Impact Sports

For Students 9th
Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on the author's argument regarding allowing girls to play high impact sports. Then revise and edit your work based on the model. This will help you develop work that is clear and coherent...
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Analyze and Annotate a Model Response

For Students 9th Standards
Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on support for a claim. Then revise and edit your work based on the model. This will help you develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Analyze Sentence Structure

For Students 9th Standards
Analyze the structure of a sentence from "Concussions Affect Teens More Than Kids and Adults, Study Says" to understand how the sentence is constructed and then create our own sentences that use a similar structure.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Analyze and Annotate a Model Response

For Students 9th
Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on the claims made in the model. We will then revise and edit our work based on the model. This will help us develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and...
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Review Claims About Social Media

For Students 9th Standards
Review claims made in "Teens: This Is How Social Media Affects Your Brain."
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Teens' Decision Making and Behavior

For Teachers 9th Standards
Students read two informational texts to understand the immediate and lasting effects that concussions and high impact sports have on the teenage brain.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Review Claims

For Students 9th
Review shared claims developed across three informational texts. Then share your response with the class.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Compare and Connect Ideas Across the Texts

For Students 9th Standards
Compare and connect ideas across the texts about the teenage brain by developing your response to the text-specific questions. Support your response with evidence from the texts.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Compare and Contrast Claims Across Texts

For Students 9th Standards
Compare and contrast claims across texts from the argument understanding tool.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare to Film Adaptations

For Students 9th Standards
Publish your final work to express understanding of Romeo and Juliet compared to film adaptations.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Draft an Essay

For Students 9th Standards
Draft the culminating task essay including the thesis statement. Review the prompt to check your work.