Language Arts and Social Studies A cross-curricular approach to instruction Session 1

Session Outcomes Review What’s New in Language Arts and Social Studies for the 2014 GED ® Test. Discuss content across the curriculum. Discuss scope and sequence in the adult education classroom. Experience close reading as a student. Deconstruct the close reading activity.

Standards Addressed Language Arts Assessment Targets R.2. Determine central ideas or themes of texts and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. R.8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of evidence. Social Studies Practices SSP.1.b. Cite or identify specific evidence to support inferences or analyses of primary or secondary sources, attending to the precise details of explanation or descriptions of a process, event, or concept.

Language Arts Instructional Shifts Shift 1: Complexity Regular practice with complex text and its academic language Shift 2: Evidence Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational Shift 3: Knowledge Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

What’s new in the Reading content domain? Analyze how individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact. Analyze the structure of texts. Determine the author’s purpose or point of view. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics. 1

What’s new in the Language content domain? Complete item types that simulate real-life editing tasks. Edit to eliminate non-standard or informal usage. Develop an argument and support ideas with text-based evidence. Strategically apply awareness of audience and purpose of the task. 1

What’s new in the Writing content domain? Extended Responses… provide real-world opportunity for test-takers to develop an argument and support ideas with text-based evidence. integrate reading and writing skills. are scored using a multi-dimensional rubric. can be an extended response or a short answer. 1

What’s new in the Social Studies content domain? Apply key concepts and ideas relevant to the social sciences. Collect information from primary and secondary source documents. Analyze relationships between texts. Write analytic responses to source texts. 1

CONTENT ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Content Across the Curriculum Integrates content and skills from multiple content areas into one cohesive learning experience 3 Advantages for students: Experience content as connected and interrelated Connect prior knowledge to what they are currently learning, makes learning more relevant Promotes more active student engagement Promotes higher-level thinking and collaborative skills 2

Content Across the Curriculum Each discipline possesses its own language, purposes, and ways of using text. There are special skills and strategies needed to make complete sense of texts from the disciplines. As students confront these texts, they will need help with what they are reading as well as how to read it. 4

Scope and Sequence In K-12 What will be taught The order in which it will be taught

Scope and Sequence In Adult Education Scope and sequence must be adapted to meet the needs of your students

Scope and Sequence 2014 GED ® Instructor Survey results: –88% of respondents plan to teach Language Arts –72% of respondents plan to teach Social Studies

Scope and Sequence How do you get from here… to here?

Scope and Sequence

Resources

Quick Turn and Talk Discuss one advantage to using a cross-curricular approach in your classroom. Which Social Studies content and Language Arts skill do you see being a natural fit?

I AM AN AMERICAN DAY SPEECH 6 A close reading experience

First ¶, First Section We have gathered here… … to this choice? 5

First ¶, Second Section We sought liberty; … …by way of winning. 5

First ¶, Third Section What do we mean… …no constitution, no law, no court to save it. 5

First ¶, Fourth Section And what is this liberty… …learned to our sorrow. 5

Outline Liberty in Hand’s First Paragraph 1. Highly valued by immigrants to America a. choice of embracing liberty unique b. required courage to leave homeland 2. Sought by immigrants a. freedom from oppression b. freedom from want c. freedom to be ourselves 3. Not guaranteed by the judicial system 4. Lives in the hearts of the people a. not the freedom to do anything b. but instead… 6

Second ¶, First Section What then is the spirit of liberty?... …considered side by side with the greatest. 5

Second ¶, Second Section And now in that spirit, … …destiny of our beloved country. 5

Writing Prompt Evaluate the argument and specific claims about the “spirit of liberty” in Learned Hand’s I Am an American Day Address, assessing the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and the validity of his reasoning.

Deconstruct Close Reading Chunk sections Unknown vocabulary Read and reread Word choice or critical words Specific phrases & sentences Inference Paraphrase Author’s purpose Citing evidence for a claim Connections Writing an explanation Context of current events Key terms Main idea Writing an outline or summary Author’s perspective Point of view Raise questions to clarify text Phrases following the author’s reasoning Shift of topic Opposing viewpoints

2014 GED ® Reading Skills Summarize details and ideas Infer implied ideas Make evidence-based generalizations or hypothesis Draw conclusions that require synthesis of multiple ideas Infer relationships between ideas in a text Determine the author’s point of view or purpose 1

Session Resources 1 American Council on Education, "GED Testing Service® Train the Trainer Workshop." Accessed August 15, Virginia Department of Education, "Cross-curricular Instruction.“ Accessed August 19, Houghton Mifflin Company, "Values and Benefits of Interdisciplinary/Cross-Curricular Teaching." Accessed August 19,

Session Resources 4 Shanahan, Cynthia. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, "Helping Students Meet the Reading Common Core State Standards in History/Social Studies and the Sciences." Accessed August 19, Student Achievement Partners, "Common Core Close Reading Sample Lessons." Accessed August 15, lessons/close-reading-exemplars.