English Language Arts Grade 9-10
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Writing Standard 6

Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.

• Argumentative Writing Standards Rubric
  This rubric will help assess first draft argumentative writing projects for 9th and 10th Grade English Language Arts.
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Hypertext Writing Exp.
  This lesson, from ReadWriteThink, combines reading and writing in a collaborative, small-group learning experience. It utilizes technology, specifically Web page design, group and individual work, and student self-assessment. After reading several examples, students will plan their own adventure story. They will be divided into smaller groups for each split in the story until finally the students are writing their own endings. Using Web-authoring software, groups will create their own Web sites with the parts of the story hyperlinked to each other.
• Evidence & Arguments: Multiple Ways of Experiencing a Text
  This Teaching Channel video shows students identifying the main idea and making arguments about a text. (12 minutes)
• Evidence and Arguments: Lesson Planning
  This Teaching Channel video shows Mr. Hanify planning a lesson about identifying main ideas and developing arguments. (6 minutes)
• Holocaust and Resistance
  In this lesson from EDSITEment, students reflect on the Holocaust from the point of view of those who actively resisted Nazi persecution. Students will learn how the Holocaust happened and understand the devastation suffered by its victims; examine the evidence of resistance to the Holocaust that has been preserved in official documents and by oral tradition; reflect on the responsibilities of individuals when confronted with social policies that violate human rights; consider the significance of the Holocaust in society today.

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