Experienced with Curriculum
Modules
Overview of Upcoming Curriculum
Postings
Purpose of this Session
Participants will be able to:
• Identify texts, performance tasks, and
learning focus areas for new NY HS ELA
Curriculum modules.
• Provide guidance to teachers and school
leaders around how to roll out the modules.
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What’s Online? What’s Ahead?
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Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Grade 9
Posted
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Grade
10
Posted
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Summer
‘14
Grade
11
Posted
Summer
‘14
Summer
‘14
Fall/Winter
‘14
Grade
12
Summer
‘14
Fall/Winter
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Fall/Winter
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Fall/Winter
‘14
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New Modules: 10.4, 11.2, 11.3
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Module 10.4 at a Glance: 41 Lessons
Texts
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Unit 1: “Death of a Pig,” E.B. White
Unit 2: Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Unit 3: The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
Major Learning Focus Areas
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Textual analysis, nonfiction and fiction
Rhetoric and analysis of arguments and expository craft and structure
Performance Assessment
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Select a central idea common to Macbeth and either White’s “Death of
a Pig” or Machiavelli’s The Prince. Discuss how each author uses
structure, character, word choice, and/or rhetoric to develop this
common idea.
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Module 11.2 at a Glance: 43 Lessons
Texts
Unit 1:
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Chapter 1, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” from The Souls of Black
Folks, W.E.B Du Bois;
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“Atlanta Compromise Speech,” Booker T. Washington
Unit 2:
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“An Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton;
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“From the House of Yemanja,” Audre Lorde
Major Learning Focus Areas
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Expository essay writing
Analysis of rhetorical strategies
Argumentative essay writing
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Module 11.3 at a Glance: 42 Lessons
Texts
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Unit 1: Wiesel, Elie. “Hope, Despair and Memory.” The
Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, December 11, 1986.
Unit 2: Research texts
Unit 3: Research texts
Major Learning Focus Areas
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Research
Performance Assessment
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3-5 minute video presentation based on the researchbased argumentative paper
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Recommendations
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Getting Started in the Fall:
• Start with a “1” module for your grade level.
• Make time for adult to adult conversation
about the central texts.
• Analyze the assessment map and read
overview documents (module overview and
unit overviews).
• Adapt the materials to meet the needs of your
classroom context.
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Adapt “Big to Small:” Module, Unit, Lesson
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Q&A
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Online Parking Lot
Please go to
https://www.engageny.org/resource/network-teaminstitute-materials-july-7-11-2014
and select “Online Parking Lot” for any NYSED
related questions.
Thank You!