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Tales as old as time
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We consider these throughout a unit, as they relate to the unit's overarching theme or focus.

What are Essential Questions?

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This is a story about a series of events that includes character development, plot structure, and theme. It can be a work of fiction or nonfiction.

What is a narrative?

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These indicate a break in thought or speech and emphasize certain content. They can also indicate an unfinished statement or question.

What are dashes?

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From the excerpt of this story by Laurie Halse Anderson, the reader learns about the protagonist's experiences via her vivid inner voice.
What is Speak?
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This extremely destructive Atlantic hurricane became the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2005. Many areas, primarily eastern Texas, received 40 inches of rain in a four day span.
What is Harvey?
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We look at these at the beginning of every lesson because they explain how each activity is connected to the common core state standards.

What are Learning Targets?

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This is a writer’s (or speaker’s) attitude toward the subject and it is conveyed through the person’s choice of words and detail.

What is tone?

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This refers to rules for the construction of a sentence. It's Greek prefix means “together,” and the root means “order” or “arrangement.”

What is syntax?

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This character, who "sat rocking day in and day out in a mindless stupor," only jumped to action when Lizabeth and the other children defaced his mother's flowers.
Who is John Burke?
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Because of this, more than 6.5 million Floridians were ordered to leave their homes. It is the largest evacuation in U.S. history.
What is Hurricane Irma?
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Every activity offers a list of these, which are the various tools students have at their disposal to perform a given task.

What are Learning Strategies?

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This is when two or more things are arranged for the purpose of comparison.

What is juxtaposition?

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These restate what was said by a person/character without using the speaker’s exact words.

What is an indirect quotation?

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Drawing from a childhood experience, Luis Rodriguez tells the story of when he and his brother were assaulted for crossing into this "all-white, all-American" neighborhood.
What is South Gate?
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This controversial symbol has been at the center of many conflicts, most recently among students from Lapel High School in Indiana.
What is the Confederate Flag?
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Each unit contains two of these, which require students to apply their knowledge of content and ability to perform skills developed throughout the curriculum.

What are Embedded Assessments?

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This is the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of two or more clauses or lines.

What is anaphora?

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This is two or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction—and, or, but, so, or yet. Its parts —called independent clauses—can also be joined by a semicolon.

What is a compound sentence?

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In his interview with Chuck Liddell, Steven Yaccino ends with one of these, which could limit his ability to get a story from an interviewee.
What is a closed-ended question?
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Blasting off into space in 1997, and after a seven-year journey, it arrived at Saturn, bringing with it the first human object to land on a world in the distant outer solar system.
What is the Cassini?
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This is the term SpringBoard uses for the tool used to assess students' performance on a given unit Embedded Assessment.

What is a Scoring Guide?

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This refers to the associations and emotional overtones attached to a word or phrase which help the reader make important inferences about meaning.

What is connotation?

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These are word pairs used to join sentence parts. Sentence parts joined by these should be grammatically parallel.
What are correlative conjunctions?
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In his speech, when President Obama describes having to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to learn with his mom, he is relying on this type of evidence to further his argument.
What is personal experience/anecdote?
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Before he was a Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall was famous for winning this case, which ended racial segregation in schools.
What is Brown v. Board?