Model Lessons, Teaching Strategies, and High-Quality Texts

Foreword
Common Core Standards Initiative: College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading

Part One: Facilitating Student Analyses of Literary Texts
Lesson 1: Internal and External Conflict
Lesson 2: Similes
Lesson 3: Metaphors
Lesson 4: Personification
Lesson 5: Symbolism
Lesson 6: Sensory Descriptors: Imagery and Onomatopoeia
Lesson 7: Rhyme: Rhyme Scheme, Alliteration and Assonance
Lesson 8: Allusions
Lesson 9: Diction and Dialect
Lesson 10: Inferences
Lesson 11: Irony
Lesson 12: Theme and Moral

Poetry
Lesson 13: Emily Dickinson, "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers"
Lesson 14: David, "Psalm 23,"The Bible
Lesson 15: Alan Cyr, "Childhood"
Lesson 16: Katherine Lee Bates, "America, the Beautiful"
Lesson 17: Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Sympathy"
Lesson 18: John McRae, "In Flanders Fields"
Lesson 19: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, "Trees"
Lesson 20: Emily Dickinson, "I Like To See It Lap the Miles"
Lesson 21: Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus"
Lesson 22: William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 18"

Narrative Writing
Lesson 23: From J. M. Barrie, from Peter and Wendy
Lesson 24: Two Fables from Aesop
Lesson 25: Edward Connell "The Most Dangerous Game"
Lesson 26: O. Henry, "The Gift of the Magi"
Lesson 27: Jane Austin, from Sense and Sensibility
Lesson 28: Jules Verne, from Journey to the Center of the Earth
Lesson 29: Jack London, from White Fang

Drama
Lesson 30: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, (from Aiken Drama Version)

Part Two - Facilitating Student Analyses of Informational Texts

Text Structures
Lesson 31: Description
Lesson 32: Sequence/Chronological Order
Lesson 33: Problem and Solution
Lesson 34: Comparison and Contrast
Lesson 35: Cause and Effect
Lesson 36: Fact and Opinion/Editorials
Lesson 37: Propaganda Techniques

Integrating and Evaluating Content in Diverse Media and Formats
Lesson 38: Judging Bias in Diverse Media and Formats

Classics, Historical Documents and Primary Sources
Lesson 39: "The Preamble" to The Constitution of the United States
Lesson 40: "The Athenian Oath" and "The Pledge of Allegiance"
Lesson 41: from "The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850"
Lesson 42: Endnotes from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lesson 43: Civil War Journal Entry: "Letter from a Union Soldier"
Lesson 44: 1st Corinthians 13:1-7
Lesson 45: From "Meditation 17," by John Donne

Appendix A: Integrating and Evaluating Diverse Media
Teacher's Answer Key