Getting Started with Close Reading
Reading Closely
Annotating a Text
Self-Monitoring Strategies
Summarizing
Reading a Visial Text
Unit1 Focus Question
Visual Text: Disabled Teen Girl Bike Racing
Text 1: A Brief Biography of Thomas Edison
Text 2: Sailing Alone Around the World
Text 3: The Things That Haven`t Been Done Before
Analyze and Synthesize Across Texts/Write
Self-Assess and Reflect
Unit2 Focus Question
Visual Text: Opening Ceremonies
Text 1: The Olympic Games at Athens
Text 2: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the 1932 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York
Text 3: Secretary-General Welcomes First-Ever Refugee Team Initiative for Raising Awareness of Critical Issues
Analyze and Synthesize Across Texts/Write
Self-Assess and Reflect
Unit3 Focus Ouestion
Visual Text: Long-Range Forecast for Spring, 2016
Text 1: What Are Hurricanes?
Text 2: The Great Galveston Disaster
Text 3: The Link Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather
Analyze and Syn...thesize Across Texts/Write
Self-Assess and Reflect
Unit4 Focus Question
Visual Text: Archaeological dig in Greece
Text 1: Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation
Text 2: Protexting Archaeological Resources
Text 3: Evidence of One of the Oldest Human Occupations
Analyze and Synthesize Across Texts/Write
Self-Assess and Reflect
Unit5 Focus Question
Visual Text: Cincinnati-Suffragists
Text 1: Disciurse on Woman
Text 2: She Was a Computer When Computers Wore Skirts
Analyze and Synthesize Across Texts/Write
Self-Assess and Reflect