Social Justice High School  Weekly Lesson Plan Teacher: Ms. Bolos and Ms. Bancroft Course: American Literature Dates: 11/9-11/13 Literacy Strategy: Close Reading, Graphic Co-teaching Model: Parallel teaching, one Period: 1, 5 Organizers, Brainstorming, Quickwriting, Marking the text, teach-one assist, team teaching Think-Pair-Share, Summarize/Paraphrase, Oral Accommodations: seating, extended time, Interpretation directions given orally and visually, one-on-one and small group interactions, graphic organizers, chunked text Objective: Students will be able to… 1. Identify an argument in a text 2. Identify reasons and evidence in a text 3. Define and identify different examples of evidence 4. Construct their own opinions Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 t

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