Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Life Without Go-Go Boots
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate a personal essay
■ Examine chronological order
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Subject and
Predicate
Pages 236–242
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.1, I-C.1, I-C.1d, I-C.2, I-D.1, I-D.2,
I-D.5, I-D.6, II-A.2, II-B.3, II-C.2, III-A.2,
III-A.3
TerraNova Objectives
Vocabulary
■ Using Synonyms
R.02a, R.03f, R.04d, R.05a, R.05b, R.05c,
R.05d, R.05g, V.35a
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Synonyms
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Personal Essay
Active Reading: Chronological Order
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 7
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 6
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 5
❑ PE pp. 236–242
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Summary, p. 4
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Personal Essay
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T11, T49
Choices and Challenges
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Writing Options
Personal Essay
Activities and Explorations
Fashion Survey
Inquiry and Research
Yesterday’s Fashions
Vocabulary in Action
Synonyms
Author Activity
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
Life Without Go-Go Boots
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Synonyms
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C35
Grammar
Subject and Predicate
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T42, C98
Cross Curricular Link
Social Studies
Hats
Informal Assessment
Predict Probable Future Actions
and Outcomes
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 8
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 41–42
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UNIT 2, PART 1 LIFE WITHOUT GO -GO BOOTS
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
from Angela’s Ashes
Pages 243–257
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate a memoir
■ Make inferences about events and people depicted in a memoir
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Nouns and Verbs
■ Compound
Predicates
Vocabulary
■ Using Context Clues
■ Context Clues with Dialect
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.1, I-A.3, I-B.1c, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1d,
I-C.2, I-D.1, I-D.2, I-D.5, I-D.6, II-A.1,
II-A.2, II-A.3, II-A.4, II-B.2, II-C.3, III-A.2,
III-A.3
TerraNova Objectives
L.38a, R.02a, R.03e, R.03f, R.04d, R.05a,
R.05b, R.05d, R.05g, R.05h, V.37a
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Context Clues
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Memoir
Active Reading: Making Inferences
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 12
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 11
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 10
❑ PE pp. 243–257
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Summary, p. 9
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Memoir
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T7
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T8
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Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Personal Memoir
Caregivers Comparison
Letter to the Editor
Activities and Explorations
Dramatic Reading
Stage Set
Inquiry and Research
The Great Famine
Disease Carriers
Vocabulary in Action
Context Clues
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
from Angela’s Ashes
Choices and Challenges (continued)
Grammar in Context
Compound Predicates
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 13
Author Activity
A Pulitzer Prize
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Real World Links
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
Vocabulary Strategy
Using Context Clues to Understand
Dialect
Grammar
Nouns and Verbs
Compound Predicates
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C36
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C37
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T42, C96
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C101
Speaking and Listening
Poetry Reading
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Cross Curricular Links
Geography
The Counties of Ireland
History
Irish Immigration and Culture
Arranging Events in Sequential Order
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Homework Assignments
38
UNIT 2, PART 1 from ANGELA’S ASHES
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 14
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 43–44
Other Teaching Materials
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Informal Assessment
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Unfinished Business
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate an interview
■ Identify the main idea
Integrating Skills
Grammar
Vocabulary
■ Coordinating and
■ Using Context Clues
Correlative
Conjunctions
■ Simple, Compound,
and Complex Sentences
Date
Pages 260–271
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.3a, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1d, I-C.2, I-D.1,
I-D.2, I-D.3, I-D.5, I-D.6, II-A.1, II-A.2,
II-B.2, II-B.3, II-C.2, III-A.3
TerraNova Objectives
L.38a, R.02a, R.03e, R.03f, R.04d, R.05a,
R.05b, R.05d, R.05g, R.05h, V.37a
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Context Clues
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Interview
Active Reading: Identifying the Main Idea
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 18
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 17
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 16
❑ PE pp. 260–271
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Summary, p. 15
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Interview
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T12
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Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Interview Questions
Character Sketch
Activities and Explorations
Artistic Rendering
Video Interviews
Vocabulary in Action
Meaning Clues
Grammar in Context
Simple Sentences
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 19
Author Activity
On Telling the Truth
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
Unfinished Business
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
Grammar
Coordinating and Correlative
Conjunctions
Simple, Compound, and Complex
Sentences
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T43, C87
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T58, C131
Speaking and Listening
Video Interview Instruction
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Cross Curricular Link
Science
Jungian Psychology
Informal Assessment
Recognizing the Author’s Point of View
and Purpose
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 20
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 45–46
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UNIT 2, PART 1 UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
A Christmas Memory
Pages 272–287
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate autobiographical fiction
■ Note sensory details in a short story
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Kinds of Sentences
■ Imperative
Sentences
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.1, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1d, I-C.2, I-D.1,
I-D.1c, I-D.2, I-D.5, I-D.6, II-A.2, II-B.2,
II-B.3, II-C.2, III-A.2, III-A.3, III-B.2, III-B.3
TerraNova Objectives
Vocabulary
■ Using a Dictionary
■ Using Context to Determine
Meanings of Idioms
R.04d, R.05a, R.05b, R.05f, R.05g
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using a Dictionary
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Autobiographical Fiction
Active Reading: Noting Sensory Details
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 24
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 23
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 22
❑ PE pp. 272–287
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Summary, p. 21
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Autobiographical Fiction
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T16, T39, T46
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Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Friendly Letter
Respectful Epitaph
Personal Narrative
Activities and Explorations
Panel Discussion
Sensory Collage
Inquiry and Research
Winter Celebrations
Vocabulary in Action
Word Meaning
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
A Christmas Memory
Choices and Challenges (continued)
Grammar in Context
Imperative Sentences
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 25
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using a Dictionary
Vocabulary Strategy
Using Context to Determine the Meaning
of Idioms
Grammar
Kinds of Sentences
Imperative Sentences
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C39
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C40
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C93
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C94
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Cook Stove by Hubert Shuptrine
Anna Kuerner by Andrew Wyeth
Cross Curricular Links
Mathematics
The Profitable Enterprise
Multicultural
December Celebrations
Informal Assessment
Summarizing
Arranging Events in Sequential Order
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Homework Assignments
42
UNIT 2, PART 1 A CHRISTMAS MEMORY
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 26
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 47–48
Other Teaching Materials
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Assessment
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Song of the Open Road / The Road Not Taken
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate two classic poems
■ Examine rhyme scheme and free verse
■ Understand poems through paraphrasing
Pages 288–292
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.2, I-C.1, I-C.2, I-D.2, I-D.5, I-D.6,
II-A.2, II-C.2, III-A.3, III-B.1, III-B.3
TerraNova Objectives
R.03e, R.05e, R.05f
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Rhyme Scheme/Free Verse
Active Reading: Paraphrasing
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 28
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 27
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ PE pp. 288–292
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Rhyme Scheme
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T41, T45
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T5
Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Path Description
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Activities and Explorations
Board Game
Inquiry and Research
Quotation Anthology
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
Song of the Open Road / The Road Not Taken
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Speaking and Listening
Dramatic Reading
Assessment
Selection Test
Test Generator
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 49–50
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
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UNIT 2, PART 1 SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD / THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
American History
Core Objectives
■ Appreciate a contemporary short story
■ Examine plot
■ Identify the sequence of events in a short story
Pages 293–304
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.1, I-A.3, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.2, I-D.2, I-D.5,
I-D.6, II-A.2, II-A.3, II-A.4, II-B.1, II-B.2,
II-B.3, II-C.2, III-A.3
TerraNova Objectives
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Subordinating
Conjunctions
■ Complex Sentences
Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
R.02a, R.03d, R.03e, R.04d, R.05a, R.05b,
R.05c, R.05d, R.05g, V.37a
■
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Context Clues
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Plot
Active Reading: Identifying Sequence of Events
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 32
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 31
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 30
❑ PE pp. 293–304
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Summary, p. 29
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Plot
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T13, T32
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T1
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Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Thoughtful Poem
Different Ending
Speculative Essay
Activities and Explorations
Story Illustration
Mood Music
Inquiry and Research
Arriving Immigrants
Vocabulary in Action
Context Clues
Grammar in Context
Complex Sentences
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 33
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
45
Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
American History
Choices and Challenges (continued)
Author Activity
Two Cultures
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C41
Grammar
Subordinating Conjunctions
Complex Sentences
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T42, C88
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C129
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
In the Province by Charles Demuth
Little Girl Reading by Simon Samsonian
Informal Assessment
Perceiving Relationships
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Part Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 34
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 51–52
❑ Formal Assessment: Unit Two, Part 1 Test, pp. 53–54
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UNIT 2, PART 1 AMERICAN HISTORY
Writing Workshop Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Reflective Essay
Writing Prompt
Write an essay in which you reflect on
an experience that is important to you.
Pages 314–319
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-C.1, I-C.2, I-D.2, I-D.5, II-B.3, II-C.2
TerraNova Objectives
R.07b, R.08b, R.08c, R.08d, R.08f, R.08h,
R.09a, R.09b
Preparing to Read
Introduction
Basics in a Box
Using the Graphic
❑ Writing Transparencies and Copymasters, T11, T20, C27
Analyzing the Model
“Running Cross Country”
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Student Models, pp. 41–46
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Writing
Prewriting
Choosing a Subject
Planning the Reflective Essay
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Prewriting, p. 36
Drafting
Organizing the Draft
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Drafting and Elaboration, p. 37
Peer Review
Ask Your Peer Reader
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Peer Response Guide, pp. 38–39
Revising
Adding Details
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading, p. 40
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Rubric for Evaluation, p. 47
Editing and Proofreading
Strong Verbs, Verb Tenses
Reflecting
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Writing Workshop Lesson Plan (continued)
Reflective Essay
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
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UNIT 2, PART 1 WRITING WORKSHOP
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
The Beginning of Something
Pages 324–342
Core Objectives
■ Appreciate a contemporary short story
■ Identify and examine different types of characters
■ Make inferences about character
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.1, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1d, I-C.2, I-D.2,
I-D.5, I-D.6, II-A.1, II-A.2, II-B.2, II-C.4,
III-A.2, III-A.3
TerraNova Objectives
Integrating Skills
Grammar
Vocabulary
■ Compound Subjects
■ Using Context Clues
and Predicates
■ Word Origins
■ Compound Sentences
R.02a, R.03d, R.03e, R.05d, R.05f
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Context Clues
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Character
Active Reading: Making Inferences
about Character
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 51
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 50
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 49
❑ PE pp. 324–342
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Summary, p. 48
Thinking Through the Literature
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Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Character
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T7
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T10
Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
First-Date Notes
Conflicting-Feelings Poem
Activities and Explorations
Mood Concert
Dramatic Reminiscence
Inquiry and Research
Diabetes
Art Connection
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
The Beginning of Something
Choices and Challenges (continued)
Vocabulary in Action
Meaning Clues
Grammar in Context
Compound Sentences
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 52
Author Activity
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C42
Vocabulary Strategy
Researching Word Origins
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C43
Grammar
Compound Subjects and Predicates
Compound Sentences
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C102
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C128
Speaking and Listening
Dramatic Reminiscence
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Katie on Sofa by Fairfield Porter
Isabella and Lois by Warren Brandt
Boy and Car by David Park
Cross Curricular Links
Social Studies
Funeral Customs
Informal Assessment
Making Inferences
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Homework Assignments
50
UNIT 2, PART 2 THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 53
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 55–56
Other Teaching Materials
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Science
Diabetes
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Young / Hanging Fire
Pages 343–347
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate two contemporary poems
■ Examine the speaker in two poems
■ Draw conclusions about speakers
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.3, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.2, I-D.2, I-D.3, I-D.5,
I-D.6, II-A.2, II-A.3, II-A.4, II-B.3, III-A.3,
III-B.4
TerraNova Objectives
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Compound Nouns
R.03b, R.03d, R.04d, R.05a, R.05f
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Speaker
Active Reading: Drawing Conclusions
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 55
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 54
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ PE pp. 343–347
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Speaker
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T4
Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Advice Column
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Activities and Explorations
Dramatic Interpretation
Inquiry and Research
Medical Investigation
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
Young / Hanging Fire
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Grammar
Compound Nouns
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T47, C65
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
By the Gate by Ernest Crichlow
Assessment
Selection Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 57–58
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UNIT 2, PART 2 YOUNG / HANGING FIRE
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
The Seven Ages of Man
Pages 348–350
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate a Shakespearean
dramatic monologue
■ Examine main ideas in poetry
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-C.1, I-C.2, I-D.2, I-D.3, I-D.5, II-A.2,
II-B.1, III-A.3, III-B.3, III-B.4
TerraNova Objectives
R.02b, R.04d, R.05a, R.05b, R.05f
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Conjunctive Adverbs
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Dramatic Monologue
Active Reading: Main Ideas in Poetry
Teaching the Literature
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 57
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 56
❑ PE pp. 348–350
Reading the Selection
Thinking Through the Literature
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T12
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Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Dramatic Monologue
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
The Seven Ages of Man
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Grammar
Conjunctive Adverbs
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T58, T59, C90
Assessment
Selection Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 59–60
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UNIT 2, PART 2 THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Brothers Are the Same
Pages 359–372
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate a short story set in East Africa
■ Examine characters in conflict
■ Recognize cultural influences
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.1, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1d, I-C.2, I-D.2,
I-D.5, II-A.1, II-A.2, II-B.3, II-C.2, III-A.1,
III-A.2, III-A.3, III-B.3
TerraNova Objectives
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Adjectives Versus
Pronouns
■ Modifiers: Pronouns
as Adjectives
Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
■ Antonyms
R.02a, R.03c, R.03d, R.04d, R.05a, R.05b,
R.05c, R.05d, R.05f, R.05g, V.37a, V.35b
■
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Context Clues
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Characters in Conflict
Active Reading: Recognizing Cultural Influences
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 62
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 61
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 60
❑ PE pp. 359–372
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Summary, p. 59
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretation
Literary Analysis: Characters in Conflict
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T9
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Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
A Story of Friendship
Activities and Explorations
Serengeti Ecosystem
Vocabulary in Action
Assessment Practice
Author Activity
Experience and Imagination
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
Brothers Are the Same
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C44
Vocabulary Strategy
Antonyms
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C45
Grammar
Adjectives Versus Pronouns
Modifiers: Pronouns as Adjectives
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C77
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C78
Speaking and Listening
Storytelling
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Photographs by Don Carl Steffen
Cross Curricular Link
Social Sciences
The Masai
Warrior Dress
Coming of Age Rituals
Informal Assessment
Perceiving Cause and Effect
Assessment
Homework Assignments
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❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 63
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 61–62
Other Teaching Materials
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Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Through the Tunnel
Pages 373–386
Core Objectives
■ Appreciate a short story
■ Identify and examine symbol
■ Recognize cultural influences in a short story
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1c, I-C.1d, I-C.2, I-D.2,
I-D.5, I-D.6, II-A.2, II-B.1, II-C.4, III-A.1,
III-A.3, III-B.3
TerraNova Objectives
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Punctuating
Dialogue
Vocabulary
Using Suffixes and Prefixes
■ Analogies
L.38a, L.38b, R.02a, R.04d, R.05a, R.05d,
R.05g, S.42a, S.42d, V.37a
■
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Suffixes and
Prefixes
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Symbol
Active Reading: Recognizing Cultural Influences
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 67
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 66
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 65
❑ PE pp. 373–386
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Summary, p. 64
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Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Symbol
Setting
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T46
Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Risk Comparison
Inquiry and Research
Sink and Swim
Vocabulary in Action
Word Meaning
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
Through the Tunnel
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Suffixes and Prefixes
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C46
Vocabulary Strategy
Analogies
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C47
Grammar
Punctuating Dialogue
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T56, C176
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Balston Beach, Cape Cod by Charles Slovek
Ice Blue by Susan Shatter
Reflections by Ken Danby
Cross Curricular Link
Science
Breathing
Informal Assessment
Completing Sentences
Letter
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Part Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 68
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 63–64
❑ Formal Assessment: Unit Two, Part 2 Test, pp. 65–66
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Writing Workshop Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Comparison-and-Contrast Essay
Writing Prompt
Write a comparison-and-contrast essay in which
you explore the similarities and differences between
two subjects of your choice.
Pages 390–395
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-C.1, I-C.2, I-D.2, I-D.5, II-B.2, II-C.3
TerraNova Objectives
R.05c, R.05f, R.07c, R.08b, R.08c, R.08d,
R.08e, R.08f, R.08h, R.09a, R.09b
Preparing to Read
Introduction
Basics in a Box
Using the Graphic
❑ Writing Transparencies and Copymasters, T11, T20, C28
Analyzing the Model
“Walkabout and Lord of the Flies”
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Student Models, pp. 75–80
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Writing
Prewriting
Choosing a Subject
Planning the Comparison-and-Contrast
Essay
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Prewriting, p. 70
Drafting
Organizing the Draft
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Drafting and Elaboration, p. 71
Peer Review
Ask Your Peer Reader
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Peer Response Guide, pp. 72–73
Revising
Transitions
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading, p. 74
❑ Unit Two Resource Book: Rubric for Evaluation, p. 81
Editing and Proofreading
Parallelism
Reflecting
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Writing Workshop Lesson Plan (continued)
Comparison-and-Contrast Essay
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
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