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=CCSS Shift - Close Reading =

Close Reading Explained
Articles/Readings-Close Readings

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A Primer on Close Reading []

5 Simple Close Reading Strategies []

Activity #1: Primary Source and CCSS
Thinking Triangle Activity:

http://primarysourcenexus.org/2012/04/connecting-common-core-primary-source-thinking-triangle-activity/ for the photo mystery: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/nclc/04500/04521v.jpg



Primary Source lesson activities

http://primarysourcenexus.org/2012/03/analyzing-primary-source-images-common-core-state-standards-alignment/

QAR

http://primarysourcenexus.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Image_Questions_Responses_Chart.pdf

Photo to analyze:

ansel adams []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">grocery store []

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity #2 =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poem:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181826

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Add Calendar photos (primary sources) to each line or each stanza

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walt Whitman's Poem

A Farm Picture

by Walt Whitman

(1819-1892)

Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,

A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,

And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity #3: Model Close Reading- excerpt form The Beef Princess of Practical County
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Close Reading Question Template

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=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity #4: Compare & Contrast = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.9] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Venn Diagram tool:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/venn-diagram-30973.html

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity#5- See, Think, Wonder=

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What do you see? What do you think? What do you wonder?
 * Share only what you can see (no interpretations)
 * What do you think is going on in the image?
 * What makes you say that?
 * Based on what you see and what you've been thinking/talking about now- what are you wondering?

Share thinking throughout the process.