NYSED+ELA+6-12+Resources

These resources have been provided by New York State. Resources created and shared by teachers from districts within the E2CC BOCES region are available at this link.

**Resources from NYSED**
All available units are on the Odell Resources page; The links below lead to specific grade levels. Resources from the above units (...but you can also find them in the units themselves...this is just for ready reference)
 * Unit I: Reading Closely for Textual Details (Odell Education units)**
 * Grade 8: We Had to Learn English (Immigration)
 * Grades 9-10: Brain Gain (Education in America)
 * Grades 11-12: Lay Down All My Joys (Civil War)
 * Grades 11-12 Promised Land (Church & State)
 * Grades 11-12 Life Steps Almost Straight (Philosophy)
 * Handout: Reading Closely for Details: Guiding Questions
 * Checklist: Reading Closely for Details
 * Checklist: Text-Centered Discussions
 * Worksheet: Questioning Texts
 * Worksheet: Analyzing Details

All available units are on the Odell Resources page; The links below lead to specific grade levels.
 * Unit II:** **Making Evidence-Based Claims (Odell Education units)**
 * Grade 6: Close-read of address by Steve Jobs to Stanford graduates in 2005
 * Grade 7: Close-read of address by Cesar Chavez to the California Commonwealth Club (1984)
 * Grade 8: Close-reads of 3 texts by Sojourner Truth, Shirley Chisholm, & Venus Williams
 * Grade 9: Close-read of an excerpted text from Plato’s Apology
 * Grade 10: Close-reads of Nobel Peace Prize Speeches of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Barack Obama
 * Grade 11: Close-read of Chapter 1 of W.E.B. Du Bois’ //The Souls of Black Folk //
 * Grade 12: Analyses of addressesby by Ronald Reagan & HIllary Clinton

All available units are on the Odell Resources page; The links below lead to specific grade levels. See Researching to Deepen Understanding resources, which may be tailored to other topics.
 * Unit III: Researching to Deepen Understanding (Odell Education Units)**
 * Grade 6: [|Prehistoric Art]
 * Grade 7: [|Water]
 * Grade 8: [|Human and Animal Interaction]
 * Grades 9-10: [|Music]
 * Grades 9-10: [|Technology]
 * Grades 11-12: [|Food]
 * Grades 11-12: [|Design]


 * Common Core Unit exemplars from 2011** (see the original site)
 * Elementary: The Great Fire
 * Elementary: Making of a Scientist
 * Middle: Farewell to Manzanar & Unbroken
 * Middle: Frederick Douglass
 * Middle: Long Night of Little Boats
 * Middle: Monk: Words We Live By
 * Middle: Tom Sawyer
 * High: Gettysburg Address
 * High: Living Like Weasels
 * Common Core Unit Evaluation Guide (for evaluating a unit of lesson's alignment to the common core)