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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: What Makes Us Human?
Ninth graders read chapters 18-27 of A Lesson Before Dying and examine how the interactions among the characters and the lessons learned by these characters develops a theme. Students also view the video, "Why Your Worst Deeds Don't...
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: I Stand Here Ironing
Ninth graders are introduced to the concepts of connections between mothers and daughters and how perception influences our understanding of each other by reading "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club
We will read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and a series of related literary and informational texts to explore the question: How does a greater understanding of a person's life experiences change our perception of them? We will express...
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Wrap Up
Ninth graders finish the unit by engaging in a whole-class discussion about what A Lesson Before Dying and the other texts in the unit reveal about being human.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Publish Final Work
Publish our final work to express our understanding of A Lesson Before Dying.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Organize Before Writing
Revise the organization of your writing to a prompt to make sure the structure is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Outlining for Writing
Review the culminating task prompt, your thesis statement, and the evidence you have gathered. Complete the outlining section of the culminating task tool to organize the supporting claims and evidence for your work.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Posing Questions
Prepare to write by posing and answering questions about a prompt. This will help you refine our understanding of the prompt.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Prepare to Write
We will prepare to write by analyzing the culminating task for A Lesson Before Dying guidebook unit. This will help us understand the task and prepare to gather evidence.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Writing Task
For this section, 9th graders prepare to write, develop, and publish the culminating task essay. They also reflect on the understanding they've built through the unit texts by engaging in a discussion about the unit question, and they...
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Invictus: Tone
Read "Invictus" in groups to establish your understanding. When we are done reading, we will locate details that develop the tone.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development
Form claims to prepare for a discussion about how characters Grant and Jefferson have changed throughout the story.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Author's Purpose and Tone
React to chapter thirty from A Lesson Before Dying to explore the author's purpose and tone.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Conflicts
React to chapter twenty-seven from A Lesson Before Dying to establish your initial understanding of the conflict between the characters Grant and the Reverend.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Build your knowledge of what it means to be human by answering questions to help you prepare to read "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs."
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Jim Crow Laws
Read "Jim Crow Laws" to establish your understanding of the text, and to see how they impacted African Americans.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development
Form claims to prepare for a discussion about the lessons Grant and Jefferson have learned about humanity in the first seven chapters.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Relationships
React to chapters 14- 15 from A Lesson Before Dying to establish our initial understanding of the relationship between the characters.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Summarize
Read paragraphs one and two from the prologue of Invisible Man together to establish our understanding, and then summarize the text.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Tone
Read chapter eleven from A Lesson Before Dying independently and examine the development of tone.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Interactions
React to chapter eight from A Lesson Before Dying to establish your initial understanding of how Matthew Antoine influenced Grant.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Isolation
Students will examine how the theme of isolation is developed in chapters 8-17 of A Lesson Before Dying, as well as the song "I Am a Rock," "No Man is an Island," and an excerpt from Invisible Man. Students will also examine the internal...
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying
Ninth graders will be introduced to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and will explore how this hierarchy relates to the needs that humans have. Students will also be introduced to background information about the South during Jim Crow through...
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Writing About the Theme
Draft a response that addresses the theme of isolation in A Lesson Before Dying and the secondary text?