Standards RL.9-10.5 – Common Core State Standards Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. L.9-10.5 – Common Core State Standards Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in
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Welcome back to midweek, everyone! So close to summer break I can taste it! Standard: RL.9-10.7. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus). Learning
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Welcome back to midweek, everyone! So close to winter break I can taste it! Standard: RL.9-10.7. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus). Learning
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Standard: RL.9-10.1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Learning Target: Students will finish reading Oedipus and write an impromptu essay about the play. Activator: Weezer – In The Garage Welcome back to class, everyone! I hope your week has
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Welcome to Tuesday! Only 17 days left until the end of the semester! Standard: RL.9-10.10. By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9–10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Learning Target: Students will begin readingOedipus
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