DECIDE AND PLAN
• If students have performed poorly on items matching these standards, then provide selection
scaffolds before assigning them the on-level lesson provided in the Student Edition.
• If students have done well on the Beginning-of-Year Assessment, then challenge them to
keep progressing and learning by giving them opportunities to practice the skills in depth.
• Use the Selection Resources listed on the Planning pages for this Poetry Collection to help
students continually improve their ability to master the standards.Instructional Standards: Poetry Collection
Catching Up This Year Looking Forward
Reading You may wish to administer the
Analyze Craft and Structure:
Development of Theme (RP)
worksheet to help students
determine a speaker’s point
of view.Challenge students to mimic
the style by writing their own
sonnets.Language You may wish to administer
the Word Study: Multiple-
Meaning Words (RP)
worksheet to help students
better understand multiple-
meaning words.
You may wish to administer
the Author’s Style: Word
Choice (RP) worksheet to help
students better understand
how word choice affects
descriptions.Challenge students to rewrite
one of the sonnets using
contemporary language,
but striving to make equally
effective word choices.Writing You may wish to administer
the Writing to Sources:
Response to Literature (RP)
worksheet to help students
practice comparing and
contrasting.Challenge students to take
their comparisons to the next
level by comparing the sonnets
to other works they have read.tEACh
Implement the planned lesson,
and gather evidence of student
learning.ANALyzE AND rEvIsE
• Analyze student work for
evidence of student learning.
• Identify whether or not
students have met the
expectations in the standards.
• Identify implications for future
instruction.IDENtIfy NEEDs
Analyze results of the Beginning-
of-Year Assessment, focusing on
the items relating to Unit 3. Also
take into consideration student
performance to this point and
your observations of where
particular students struggle.Standards Support Through Teaching and Learning Cycle
RL.2 Determine two or
more themes or central
ideas of a text and analyze
their development over the
course of the text, including
how they interact and build
on one another to produce
a complex account; provide
an objective summary of
the text.L.4 Determine or clarify the
meaning of unknown and
multiple-meaning words
and phrases based on
grades 11–12 reading and
content...
RL.4 Determine the
meaning of words and
phrases as they are used
in the text, including
figurative and connotative
meanings . . .W.2.b Develop the topic
thoroughly by selecting
the most significant and
relevant facts, extended
definitions, concrete
details, quotations, or
other information and
examples appropriate to the
audience’s knowledge of
the topic.Small-Group Learning 372D
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