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CONTENT AREAS

English/Language Arts

• HS Language Arts: Grammar
  This lesson will help students determine how subordinate clauses are different from independent clauses. Using a workplace scenario, students will understand the ways subordinate clauses function and impact a sentence’s structure. In addition, students will understand the importance of discussion in learning.
• ES Language Arts: Writing
  This lesson will help students explore the similarities and differences of two kinds of candy and write elaborated and extended descriptions comparing the two. In addition, students will explore similarities and differences in a compare/contrast lesson using graphic organizers and sensory words.

Mathematics

• ES Math
  This lesson will help students organize and compare lines and angles. In addition, students will use CRISS strategies such as Power Thinking, Pattern Puzzles, Content Frames, and RAFT.

Physical/Health Education

• HS Health/Nutrition
  This lesson will help students understand why a person should develop a regular exercise program. In addition, will actively read, discuss, and debate an issue in order to understand it.

Science

• HS Science: Solar System
  Students will practice ways of organizing information to help in comparing and contrasting. They will also expand their understanding of vocabulary words through a Concept of Definition map, all while learning facts about planets in our solar system.

Social Studies

• HS Social Studies: Feudalism
  This lesson will help students understand the components of a feudal village and the social structure within the village. In addition, students will practice strategies for active reading including Read and Say Something and Reciprocal Teaching.

GRADE LEVELS

1. Elementary K-5

• ES Kinder Categories
  This lesson will help students gain an understanding of how to connect information they encounter to other information they already have. They will do this by organizing similar pictures into categories. In addition, students will apply CRISS strategies to organize by category.
• ES Language Arts: Writing
  This lesson will help students explore the similarities and differences of two kinds of candy and write elaborated and extended descriptions comparing the two. In addition, students will explore similarities and differences in a compare/contrast lesson using graphic organizers and sensory words.
• ES Math
  This lesson will help students organize and compare lines and angles. In addition, students will use CRISS strategies such as Power Thinking, Pattern Puzzles, Content Frames, and RAFT.

3. High School 9-12

• HS Language Arts: Grammar
  This lesson will help students determine how subordinate clauses are different from independent clauses. Using a workplace scenario, students will understand the ways subordinate clauses function and impact a sentence’s structure. In addition, students will understand the importance of discussion in learning.
• HS Science: Solar System
  Students will practice ways of organizing information to help in comparing and contrasting. They will also expand their understanding of vocabulary words through a Concept of Definition map, all while learning facts about planets in our solar system.
• HS Health/Nutrition
  This lesson will help students understand why a person should develop a regular exercise program. In addition, will actively read, discuss, and debate an issue in order to understand it.
• HS Social Studies: Feudalism
  This lesson will help students understand the components of a feudal village and the social structure within the village. In addition, students will practice strategies for active reading including Read and Say Something and Reciprocal Teaching.