Text Structure Slightly Complex – Language Features Very Complex – Meaning Exceedingly Complex – Overall Complexity Very Complex – Ted Talks on Modern US Education & Reform: If Schools Taught Us How to by Jonathan Levi () “What Resources to help with the culminating task: Testing” by Darling-Hammond () “Testing, Week 3 (separates student moves into phases towards creating a TED Talk) Surprising Truth About Learning in Schools” by Will Richardson () “The (includes handouts and visuals to support students) Standardized Tests Don’t Measure” by Nikki Adeli () “What (breaks down the parts of a TED Talk into discrete sections, guides The Power of Passion and Perseverance” by Angela Lee Duckworth ( ) “Grit: searching for topic information) (PDF of unit plan for TED offers an alternative Think Sheet for note collection) Culminating Writing Task Writing a TED Talk – Week 4 Exemplar: School Training Ground” by Malcolm London - “High by Robert Burns a Mouse” “To Week 5 To assist teachers with scaffolding instruction, the qualitative measures of the Social Contract” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau “The anchor texts are provided here. These measures are based on the . Anchor Text: To a Mouse by Robert Burns, p. 734 et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen “Dulce Week 6 Knowledge Demands Moderately Complex – by Thomas Hobbes and C.B. Macpherson “Leviathan” Text Structure Very Complex – Language Features Very Complex – Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot, p. 1163 “The Meaning Moderately Complex – Week 7 from The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Overall Complexity Very Complex – Anchor Text: The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot, p. 1163 Knowledge Demands Very Complex – Hollow Men”- The Literary Magazine, p. 1165 “The Week 8 Text Structure Slightly Complex – by Grover Language Features Slightly Complex – Meaning Very Complex – Overall Complexity Very Complex – Week 9 Culminating Task
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