ELA G4:M4

Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment

Each module is approximately 6-8 weeks of instruction broken into 3 units. The "week at a glance" chart in the curriculum map gives the big picture, breaking down the module into a detailed week-by-week view. It shows how the module unfolds, the focus of each week of instruction, and where the six assessments and the performance task occur.

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Weeks 1-2 Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Reading about and Analyzing Events in The Hope Chest

Lesson #	Instructional Focus	CCS Standards	Assessments
Week 1	Practice reading The Hope Chest fluently and accurately. Compare artwork inspired by The Hope Chest with details in the text.	RL.4.1 RL.4.3 RL.4.4 RL.4.7 RL.4.10 RI.4.1 RI.4.10 RF.4.4 W.4.8 L.4.4 L.4.5c	Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Answering Questions about a Literary Text (RL.4.1, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.7, RF.4.4, L.4.4 and L.4.5c)
Week 2	Comparing and contrasting firsthand and secondhand accounts of events	RI.4.1 RI.4.4 RI.4.6 RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.4.4 L.4.4	End of Unit 1 Assessment: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts of the Same Event (RI.4.1, RI.4.4, RI.4.6 and L.4.4)

Weeks 3-5 Unit 2: Analyzing Characters and How Their Actions Contribute to Theme: Reading and Analyzing The Hope Chest

Lesson #	Instructional Focus	CCS Standards	Assessments
Weeks 3-4	Determining the meaning of similes, metaphors, and common idioms, adages, and proverbs Summarizing events in The Hope Chest that show evidence of a theme Using relative pronouns and relative adverbs	RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.4.4 RL.4.10 RI.4.10 W.4.5 L.4.1 L.4.1a L.4.5 L.4.5a L.4.5b	Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Summarizing Events in a Chapter (RL.4.1, RL.4.2, L.4.1a and L.4.5a, L.4.5b)
Weeks 4-5	Writing a literary essay about a theme in The Hope Chest.	RL.4.1 RL.4.2 W.4.1 W.4.2 W.4.2a W.4.2b W.4.2c W.4.2d W.4.2e W.4.4 W.4.6 W.4.9 W.4.9a W.4.5	End of Unit 2 Assessment: Writing a Literary Essay about a Theme in The Hope Chest (RL.4.1, RL.4.2, W.4.2, W.4.4, W.4.6 and W.4.9a)

Weeks 5-8 Unit 3: Call to Action: How Can We Make a Difference?

Lesson #	Instructional Focus	CCS Standards	Assessments
Weeks 5-6	Researching how children around the world have made a difference Identifying the reasons and evidence a speaker in a video provides to support particular points	W.4.7 W.4.8 SL.4.1 SL.4.3	Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: Researching How Kids Have Take Action (RI.4.1, RI.4.4, RI.4.7, W.4.7, W.4.8, SL.4.3, L.4.4a and L.4.4c)
Weeks 6-8	Planning and writing a PSA Planning and writing a press release	W.4.1 W.4.1a W.4.1b W.4.1d W.4.2 W.4.4 W.4.5 W.4.6 W.4.10 SL.4.1 SL.4.4 SL.4.6 L.4.3c L.4.4 L.4.6	End of Unit 3 Assessment: Writing a PSA (W.4.1a,W.4.1b, W.4.1d and W.4.4) Performance Task: Taking Action Project Press Release (W.4.2 and W.4.4)

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