Description
- Overview:
- "Homeless," by Anna Quindlen, allows the student to understand homelessness as it affects many people on a broader scale. She emphasizes the individuality of homelessness, the fact that they not only lack possessions but have no place to keep them."The First" (also titled "Eviction") is a short poem by Lucille Clifton that provides the opportunity to compare and contrast the approach to the same issue through another genre.Final Assessment: How do Anna Quindlen and Lucille Clifton use language to convince the reader that their arguments have value? (focus on use of specific language, word choice, mood, tone, etc.)
- Subject:
- Literature, Education, English Language Arts
- Level:
- Middle School
- Grades:
- Grade 8
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Jessica Wlotzka, MSDE Admin
- Date Added:
- 08/15/2018
- License:
-
Creative Commons Attribution
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Downloadable docs, Interactive
Standards
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.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Standard: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 8 on page 53.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards English Language Arts
Grade 8,Reading for LiteratureCluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards English Language Arts
Grade 8,Reading for Informational TextCluster: 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.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards English Language Arts
Grade 8,Reading for Informational TextCluster: 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.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards English Language Arts
Grade 8,Reading for Informational TextCluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards English Language Arts
Grade 8,Reading for Informational TextCluster: 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.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Range of Writing.
Standard: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards English Language Arts
Grade 8,Reading for LiteratureCluster: 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.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards English Language Arts
Grade 8,Reading for LiteratureCluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards English Language Arts
Grade 8,Reading for LiteratureCluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Conventions of Standard English.
Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Standard: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Standard: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Standard: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards English Language Arts
Grade 8,Reading for Informational TextCluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: 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)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Indicator: 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.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Indicator: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1���3 up to and including grade 8 on page 53.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Range of Writing.
Indicator: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Indicator: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Indicator: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Indicator: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Craft and Structure.
Indicator: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: 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: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: 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: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Indicator: 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)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 8Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Indicator: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6���8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Conventions of Standard English.
Indicator: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Range of Writing.
Indicator: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Indicator: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Indicator: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Indicator: 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 Literature
Standard: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Indicator: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Craft and Structure.
Indicator: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Conventions of Standard English.
Indicator: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: 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)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: 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: Key Ideas and Details.
Indicator: 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)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Indicator: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Indicator: 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.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Indicator: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 8 on page 53.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
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