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- Overview:
- This lesson is intended to be taught over multiple days, focusing on Chapter XIII: Two Thousand Miles for A Five-Minute Speech from Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington. The students will also complete a close read of The Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington. Through the two texts, students will read about the events that led Booker T. Washington to deliver a speech at the Atlanta Exposition. Students will write and deliver their own speech, supporting their arguments with claims and evidence. Image source: "Booker T. Washington" by skeeze on Pixabay.com
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Level:
- Middle School
- Grades:
- Grade 8
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Laura Knapp, MSDE Admin, Kathleen Maher-Baker
- Date Added:
- 06/27/2018
- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
- Language:
- English
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
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Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
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Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
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Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Establish and maintain a formal style.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 8Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1���3 above.)
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Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
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Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
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Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
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Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
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Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Establish and maintain a formal style.
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Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
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Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
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Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
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Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
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Cluster: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
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Cluster: Conventions of Standard English.
Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
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Cluster: Conventions of Standard English.
Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
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