OSSE CSSS Educator Leader InstituteSecondary English Language Arts

Day 2July 31st to Aug 3rd, 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

Heidi’s Performance Task

Performance Task, Grade(s) 11 – 12Students provide an objective summary of Henry David Thoreau’s 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 one’s life undermine self-reliance?”) [RI.11–12.2]

Skills and Understandings Addressed in the Performance Task

Key Ideas and Details1. 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, 1893. (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 andsuck 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, 1893. (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? UseEvidence from the text to support your answer.

Thoreau

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Houghton, 1893. (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 well What I’d do differently

Feedback

CCSS demo/practice feedback

Video

Closure

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