1. Experienced with Curriculum Modules Overview of Upcoming Curriculum Postings

2. 2 Purpose of this Session Participants will be able to: Identify texts, performance tasks, and learning focus areas for new NY HS ELA Curriculum modules. Provide guidance to teachers and school leaders around how to roll out the modules.

3. 3 What’s Online? What’s Ahead?

4. 4 Module 1Module 2Module 3Module 4 Grade 9 Posted Grade 10 Posted Summer ‘14 Grade 11 Posted Summer ‘14 Fall/Winter ‘14 Grade 12 Summer ‘14 Fall/Winter ‘14

5. 5 New Modules: 10.4, 11.2, 11.3

6. 6 Module 10.4 at a Glance: 41 Lessons Texts  Unit 1: “Death of a Pig,” E.B. White  Unit 2: Macbeth, William Shakespeare  Unit 3: The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli Major Learning Focus Areas  Textual analysis, nonfiction and fiction  Rhetoric and analysis of arguments and expository craft and structure Performance Assessment  Select a central idea common to Macbeth and either White’s “Death of a Pig” or Machiavelli’s The Prince. Discuss how each author uses structure, character, word choice, and/or rhetoric to develop this common idea.

7. 7 Module 11.2 at a Glance: 43 Lessons Texts Unit 1:  Chapter 1, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” from The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B Du Bois;  “Atlanta Compromise Speech,” Booker T. Washington Unit 2:  “An Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton;  “From the House of Yemanja,” Audre Lorde Major Learning Focus Areas  Expository essay writing  Analysis of rhetorical strategies  Argumentative essay writing

8. 8 Module 11.3 at a Glance: 42 Lessons Texts  Unit 1: Wiesel, Elie. “Hope, Despair and Memory.” The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, December 11, 1986.  Unit 2: Research texts  Unit 3: Research texts Major Learning Focus Areas  Research Performance Assessment  3-5 minute video presentation based on the research- based argumentative paper

9. 9 Recommendations

10. Getting Started in the Fall: Start with a “1” module for your grade level. Make time for adult to adult conversation about the central texts. Analyze the assessment map and read overview documents (module overview and unit overviews). Adapt the materials to meet the needs of your classroom context.  Adapt “Big to Small:” Module, Unit, Lesson 10

11. 11 Q & A

12. Online Parking Lot Please go to https://www.engageny.org/resource/network-team- institute-materials-july-7-11-2014 and select “Online Parking Lot” for any NYSED related questions. Thank You!