OSSE CSSS Educator Leader Institute Secondary English Language Arts Day 2 July 31 st to Aug 3 rd, 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 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 The Task The Standards Writing Extensions Reflection Feedback

Heidis Performance Task Performance Task, Grade(s) 11 – 12 Students provide an objective summary of Henry David Thoreaus 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 ones 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, (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, (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, (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 wellWhat Id do differently

Feedback CCSS demo/practice feedback

Video

Closure Please complete the day two exit ticket See you tomorrow.