• one Article Analysis

    Grades 9 - 12 Activity

    How can I analyze a non-fiction text to understand the main idea and how it develops?

    9.5.2.2

    Resources Needed 

    • NewsELA (iPad App or website, free)

    Pick an article from www.newsela.com. Read the article. Identify the main idea of the article and examine how the author explains, supported, or showed their ideas. What are your thoughts on the article? Click on Browse Content to find articles.

  • 2 Poetry Analysis

    Grades 9 - 12 Activity

    How can I interact with poetry? How can I summarize a poem? What does the author do to make the poem stand out? Where does this poem connect to my life?

    9.4.2.2

    Resources Needed 

    Pick a poem from the Teen section of www.poetryfoundation.org. How can I summarize a poem? What does the author do to make the poem stand out? Where does this poem connect to my life?

  • 3 Multigenre Analysis

    Grades 9 - 12 Activity

    How can I compare the word / phrase choice authors use across different genres and text types??

    9.4.4.4/9.5.4.4

    Resources Needed 

    Read Giovanni's poem. Then pick 2-3 (or more) articles from The Undefeated's article series on influential African-Americans. Reread Giovanni's poem. Then think about the words used in Giovanni's poem. What words or phrases are most important? What words or phrases did you read in the articles that connect to the poem? How do these texts "talk to one another"?

  • 4 Independent Reading

    Grades 9 - 12 Activity

    What books are you excited to read? What books are challenging you to learn more about the world?

    11.4.10.10

    Resources Needed 

    1. Find a great book on Library Go!

    2. Read the first 10-20 pages or first 1-2 chapters.

    3. Reflection Questions:

    • Is this book a book you are extremely excited about reading?
    • Does this book engage and challenge you to see the world from different perspectives?

  • 4  Independent Reading: Non-Fiction

    Grades 6 - 8 Activity

    What do you want to learn more about or get better at?

    6.5.10.10, 7.5.10.10, 8.5.10.10

    Resources Needed 

    Choose a nonfiction text or atricle.Approach the text expecting to learn. As you read new information (facts,figures), or see someting new (photographs, diagrams), pause and let the information sink in.

    React and respond with "Wow, I never knew..."

    • What did you learn that's new to you?
    • Say back what you learned..
    • What did you feel ike you missed?
    • If you can't say it back, try to reread.

  • 4  Independent Reading: Fiction

    Grades 6 - 8 Activity

    What could this story really be about? What are you noticing about the setting (the time and the place)?

    7.4.3.3, 8.4.3.3

    Resources Needed 

    Choose a historical fiction or dystopian /fantasy story or book. As you read, pay attention to the details the author uses to describe the setting. Say back the details you learned about the setting.

    • How does the character act in this setting?
    • Why might this setting be important?
    • Describe what you picture.