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Secondary Literacy Adoption

April 15, 2014

Purpose

• Review the secondary literacy adoption process

• Review the characteristics of the recommended curricular materials

• Request adoption of recommended curricular materials

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Strategic Targets

Target 1.2.b: Increased rigor is developed throughout the curriculum and rigorous course offerings are provided equitably across schools. Target 1.2.c: Common content and outcomes are provided across all like classes.

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Overview

• Adoption process • Characteristics of recommended

resource • Recommend adoption

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Process • Solicited text resources from publishers • Training and preparation of Secondary

Literacy Adoption Team – Common Core State Standards in

English/Language Arts – Best practices in instruction – College and Career Readiness – Publishers’ Criteria – Proficiency scaling of standards

• Critical Criteria – Alignment to CCSS in ELA – Best practices in instruction and assessment – Text complexity and writing purposes – Accessibility to special populations – Online resources for students, staff and parents

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Process • In-depth screening • Bias screening • Accessibility to Special Populations

screening • Open House events • Publisher representative presentations • Lesson practice • Review of all feedback • Recommendation • Presentation to Instructional Materials

Committee • Presentation to superintendent to

recommend to board of directors 6

Recommendation: Core Text

• SpringBoard Common Core Edition: English Language Arts. New York, New York: College Board, 2014

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Ancillary Texts: 6 - 8

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Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech The Lion King (1994) Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers Up (2009) Pete Docter 6 Temple Grandin (2010) Mick Jackson The Taming of the Shrew (1967) Franco Zeffirelli Tangerine by Edward Bloor The Sandlot (1993) David M. Evans Invictus (2009) Clint Eastwood Twelfth Night (1996) Trever Nunn 7 The Mighty Peter (1998) Chelsom I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998) Jerry Seinfeld and Marty Callner Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood The Giver by Lois Lowry Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Steven Spielberg A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996) Adrian Noble A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) Michael Hoffman 8 Life Is Beautiful (1997) Roberto Benigni The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) George Stevens The Lion King (1994) Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers The Simpsons opening clip I Love Lucy "Lucy's Famous Chocolate Scene" "Who's on First?" Abbott and Costello

Ancillary Texts: 9 - 10

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (1996) Baz Luhrmann Romeo and Juliet (1968) Franco Zeffirelli To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Robert Mulligan Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Tim Burton Edward Scissorhands (1990) Tim Burton The Corpse Bride (2005) Tim Burton Big Fish (2003) Tim Burton “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Tori Amos “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana "Five Ways Ed Pays" Video and PowerPoint Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales (book and animations) Bend It Like Beckham (2003) Gurinder Chadha The 11th Hour (2007) Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen Life in the Freezer: The Big Freeze (1993) Alastair Fothergill March of the Penguins (2005) Luc Jacquet "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin "Love Without End, Amen" by George Strait "I Need You to Wake Up" (2006) music video directed by Melissa Etheridge

Ancillary Texts: 11

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Into the Wild by John Krakauer

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) Darnell Martin

The Crucible (1996) Nicholas Hytner

Into the Wild (2007) Sean Penn

Salem Witchcraft Hysteria website

Monty Python and the Holy Grail scene

Thomas Cole's "The Oxbow" and Asher Durand's "Kindred Spirits“ paintings

Ancillary Texts: 12

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Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Othello by William Shakespeare The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein The Arrival by Shaun Tan Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Starapi Othello (2007) Wilson Milam Othello starring Anthony Hopkins (1981) Jonathan Miller Othello starring John Kani (1989) Janet Suzman Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock Edward Scissorhands (1990) Tim Burton The Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer Nine to Five (1980) Colin Higgins The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) Robert Redford My Fair Lady (1964) George Cukor Shut Up and Sing (2006) Barbara Kopple News Wars: Part III What's Happening in the News PBS "Talkin' Bout a Revolution" by Tracy Chapman "The Right to Love" by Gene Lees

8th Grade Literature Circles

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Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev Shadow of the Wall by Christa Laird Stones in the Water by Donna Jo Napoli Summer of My German Soldier by Betty Greene Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust by Inge Auerbacher I have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke The Lost Childhood by Yuhuda Nir The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman Night by Elie Wiesel No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas

8th Grade Literature Circles

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A Picture Book of Anne Frank by David A. Adler The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse The Children We Remember by Chana Byers Abells The Feather-Bed Journey by Paula Kerzband Feder Hidden Child by Isaac Millman Hiding from the Nazis by David A. Adler Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen (as told to) Michelle R. McCann by Luba Tryszynska-Frederick Memories of Survival by Ester Nisenthan Krinitz The Number of My Grandfather's Arm by David A. Adler One Yellow Daffodil: A Hanukkah Story by David A. Adler Star of Fear, Star of Hope by Jo Hoestlandt The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy Along the Tracks by Tamar Bergman Daniel, Half Human: And the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz Daniel's Story by Carol Matas The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen The Diary of Pelly D by L.J. Adlington Escape to the Forest: Based on a True Story of the Holocaust by Ruth Yaffe Radin The Garden by Carol Matas Good Night, Maman by Norma Fox Mazer The Island of Bird Street by Uri Orlev

Alignment to Common Core State Standards • Backward design from College and

Career Readiness Standards • Full alignment to the CCSS

– Integration of reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language standards

– Variety of text types including print and digital media

– Text complexity aligned to CCSS expectations

– Writing purposes aligned – Rigorous program grades 6-12

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Best Practices in Instruction and Assessment • Strong pedagogy including backward design

of units • Program effectiveness based on research • Seamless vertical alignment • Platform for teacher collaboration across

teams and schools with regard to instruction and assessment

• AP structure of plan, teach, assess, adapt • Embedded unit assessments and online

summative assessments • Formative assessments to guide instruction

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Best Practices in Instruction and Assessment

• Standards embedded and communicated to students and teachers

• Challenging and engaging activities which require development of higher order thinking skills

• Student strategies are explicitly taught and applied including close reading, analyzing text, collaborating, writing process, speaking and listening

• Academic vocabulary taught in context

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Text Complexity and Writing

• Text complexity aligned with CCSS expectations at each grade

• Wide range of high quality texts of various types including media as defined in the CCSS

• Writing aligned to CCSS writing purposes

• Writing as a response to and synthesis of reading

• Strategies, models and exemplars provided for all writing purposes

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Accessibility to Special Populations

• Best practices and materials support learning for all students

• Differentiated instructional options throughout

• Scaffolded activities to promote independence

• Reading and writing online workshops reinforce learning

• Model: Plan, Teach, Assess, Adapt = Intervention 18

Online Support for Students & Families

• Textbook • Writing portfolio • Word pronunciation and meaning • Interactive notebook for students to

view work and reflect • Resources for learning • Glossary in English and Spanish • Teacher-assigned activities or

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Online Support for Teachers • Editable teacher edition • Community for educators to develop and

share resources and collaborate • Professional development modules • Digital Toolbox to facilitate planning,

personalize lessons, track student progress and communicate with students

• Digital test bank with customizable assessments

• Common Core Correlation Viewer provides links to the CCSS in the text

• Pending essay scorer 20

Implementation and Professional Development Initial training and ongoing professional development throughout the year

– A focus on standards and instructional shifts – The effective use of instructional materials and online

resources – Incorporating rigor and higher order thinking skills – Incorporating student strategies – Incorporating 21st century skills and standards-aligned

use of technology – Ongoing refinement of instructional maps and unit

development – Links to TPEP/Danielson professional growth and

evaluation – Links to program success indicators tied to best practices

in instruction and assessment

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Summary • Rigorous, comprehensive, inclusive adoption

process • Training • In-depth screening • Bias and Accessibility screenings • Lesson Practice • Open House • Publisher educational consultant presentations

• Critical Criteria • Alignment with CCSS • Best practices in instruction and assessment • Text types and writing purposes • Accessibility to special populations • Online support for students, parents and staff

• Next steps • Implementation with professional development

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Questions ?

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