English Language Arts, Grade 6 Module 2: Working with Evidence, Teacher Set (Paths to College and Career) - Softcover

Paths to College and Career is a new, comprehensive English Language Arts curriculum for grades 6 to 12 built from the ground up over a three-year period to address the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts and Literacy. It reflects a deep understanding of the standards and assessments, and is written with a focus on the shifts in instructional practice and student experiences the standards require. It includes daily lesson plans, guiding questions, recommended texts, scaffolding strategies, and other classroom resources. Paths to College and Career provides teachers, schools, and districts with a concrete and practical ELA instructional program that engages students with compelling and complex texts. At each grade level, Paths to College and Career delivers a yearlong curriculum that develops all students' ability to * read closely and engage in text-based discussions, * build evidence-based claims and arguments, * conduct research and write from sources, and * expand their academic vocabulary. Paths to College and Career's instructional resources address the needs of all learners, including students with disabilities, English language learners, and gifted and talented. The curriculum is flexible, user friendly, engaging, and purposefully built to prepare students for career, college, and life. What are "rules to live by"? How do people formulate and use "rules" to improve their lives? How do people communicate these "rules" to others? In Module 2 of Grade 6, students consider these questions as they read the novel Bud, Not Buddy, Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, President Barack Obama's Back-to-School Speech, "If" by Rudyard Kipling, and informational research texts. Students write a literary argument essay in which they establish a claim about how Bud uses his "rules," substantiating their claim using specific text-based evidence. Then they shift their focus to their own rules to live by and conduct a short research project. As a final performance task, students use their research to write an essay to inform about one important "rule to live by" supported with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, and examples.