"Working with Evidence and Making Claims: How Do Authors Structure Texts and Develop Ideas?"
Link: Module 2
In Module 9.2, students engage with literature and non-fiction texts that develop central ideas of guilt, obsession, and madness, among others. Using skills acquired in Module 1, students will continue to foster their understanding of evidence-based analysis and debate by producing evidence-based claims which analyze the development of central ideas and text structure. Through revision and editing, students will refine their speaking and listening skills through discussion-based assessments.
Module 9.2 Focus Skills & Habits:
- Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Engage in productive evidence-based conversations about text
- Write evidence-based claims
- Utilize rubrics for self-assessment and peer review of writing
- Revise writing
- Generate and respond to questions in scholarly discourse
Module 9.2 continues to explore identity through texts that examine human motivations, actions, and consequences. Students build on work from Module 9.1 as they track character development in Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart" and the tragedy of Oedipus the King. In these texts, as well as a poem by Emily Dickinson, students analyze the effects of an author’s structural choices on the development of central ideas. Students also engage with informational texts about guilt and human fascination with crime, as they continue to exercise and develop their ability to identify and make claims. Students strengthen their writing by revising and editing, and refine their speaking and listening skills through discussion-based assessments.
Texts: (Many Available HERE)
Unit 1:
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickenson
Unit 2:
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Unit 3:
“True Crime: The Roots of an American Obsession” by Walter Mosley (Newsweek, August 17, 2009)
“How Bernard Madoff Did It” by Liaquat Ahamed (May 13, 2011. The New York Times Book Review.)
The Wizard of Lies (Epilogue excerpt) by Diana Henriquez
“$50bn Ponzi Scheme - How Madoff Did It.” (Virgil Ierubino, Youtube)
Descriptions adapted from EngageNY
Updated 1/5/15 (KBW)
Link: Module 2
In Module 9.2, students engage with literature and non-fiction texts that develop central ideas of guilt, obsession, and madness, among others. Using skills acquired in Module 1, students will continue to foster their understanding of evidence-based analysis and debate by producing evidence-based claims which analyze the development of central ideas and text structure. Through revision and editing, students will refine their speaking and listening skills through discussion-based assessments.
Module 9.2 Focus Skills & Habits:
- Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Engage in productive evidence-based conversations about text
- Write evidence-based claims
- Utilize rubrics for self-assessment and peer review of writing
- Revise writing
- Generate and respond to questions in scholarly discourse
Module 9.2 continues to explore identity through texts that examine human motivations, actions, and consequences. Students build on work from Module 9.1 as they track character development in Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart" and the tragedy of Oedipus the King. In these texts, as well as a poem by Emily Dickinson, students analyze the effects of an author’s structural choices on the development of central ideas. Students also engage with informational texts about guilt and human fascination with crime, as they continue to exercise and develop their ability to identify and make claims. Students strengthen their writing by revising and editing, and refine their speaking and listening skills through discussion-based assessments.
Texts: (Many Available HERE)
Unit 1:
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickenson
Unit 2:
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Unit 3:
“True Crime: The Roots of an American Obsession” by Walter Mosley (Newsweek, August 17, 2009)
“How Bernard Madoff Did It” by Liaquat Ahamed (May 13, 2011. The New York Times Book Review.)
The Wizard of Lies (Epilogue excerpt) by Diana Henriquez
“$50bn Ponzi Scheme - How Madoff Did It.” (Virgil Ierubino, Youtube)
Descriptions adapted from EngageNY
Updated 1/5/15 (KBW)