OSSE CSSS Educator Leader Institute
Secondary English Language Arts
Day 2
July 31st to Aug 3rd, 2012
Facilitated by
Heidi Beeman
Objectives
By the end of this institute, participants will:
• Review the CCSS, its appendices, skills and
understandings
• Examine and promote instructional shifts
• Evaluate, create, practice and provide constructive
feedback on lessons aligned to the CCSS
• Share and discuss assessments of the CCSS
• Hone and discuss leadership strategies to support
others in the implantation of the CCSS
• Establish next steps for ongoing support of the CCSS
Goal
To build capacity, promote and hone
implementation of the Common Core State
Standards to prepare all District of
Columbia students for college and career
readiness.
Day Two - Agenda
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Welcome and Review of Agenda
Complex Text Article
Practice/Demo Lesson – Heidi
Close Reading Video/Handouts
Practice/Demo Lessons - #1 - #4 and Feedback
Break-out session – Teacher Evaluations & the
CCSS
• Exit Ticket
• Closure
Group Norms
• Understand that those who work, learn.
• Phrase questions for the benefit of all.
• Recognize that everyone has expertise.
• Challenge ideas, not people.
• Share talk time.
• Be kind.
Walking the Talk
Practice/Demo Performance Tasks
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The Task
The Standards
Writing Extensions
Reflection
Feedback
Heidi’s Performance Task
Performance Task, Grade(s) 11 – 12
Students provide an objective summary of
Henry David Thoreau’s Walden wherein they
analyze how he articulates the central ideas of
living simply and being self-reliant and how
those ideas interact and build on one another
(e.g., “According to Thoreau, how specifically
does moving toward complexity in one’s life
undermine self-reliance?”) [RI.11–12.2]
Skills and Understandings Addressed
in the Performance Task
Key Ideas and Details
1. Read closely to determine what the text says
explicitly and to make logical inferences from it;
cite specific textual evidence when writing or
speaking to support conclusions drawn from the
text.
2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and
analyze their development; summarize the key
supporting details and ideas.
Additional Skills and Understandings
Addressed
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse
formats and media, including visually and
quantitatively, as well as in words.
Essential Skills
• provide an objective summary
• analyze central ideas
• Identify how ideas interact and build on one
another
Thoreau
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Houghton,
1893. (1854)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live
what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation,
unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and
suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put
to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive
life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be
mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish
its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience,
and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men,
it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the
devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end
of man here to “glorify God and enjoy him forever.”
Thoreau
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Houghton,
1893. (1854)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Please write answers for the following:
Who it the author of this text?
When was this text originally published?
What is the title of this text?
Is this text literary or informational? Use
Evidence from the text to support your answer.
Thoreau
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Houghton,
1893. (1854)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only
the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Please write answers for the following:
Write down the key words in the sentence above.
Use the key words you identified to write a sentence
summarizing this first sentence of the text.
Share your summary with your neighbor and see if you both agree your
summaries make sense. Write your summary on a post-it note, put your
name on the bottom and place it on the “summary” chart.
Reflection
What I did well
What I’d do differently
Feedback
CCSS demo/practice feedback
Video
Closure
• Please complete the day two exit ticket
• See you tomorrow.