Curriculum+Resources

Curriculum is designed with the end in mind, better known as backwards design. In order to meet the rigor set forth by the College and Career Readiness standards, teachers should keep the following in mind when developing curriculum. **What is it that you want students to understand, know, and be able to do?** The Publisher's Criteria helps in defining the criteria and creating curriculum to meet the rigor of the standards. [|PUBLISHER'S CRITERIA]
 * Curriculum Resources**
 * How do you know that students understand, know, and can do?**
 * How will you design learning so that understanding, knowing, and doing become more likely?**

**Text Sequence by Cluster** This working document represents the texts used for teaching understanding 6th through 12th Grade by Cluster. Although we use novels as our anchor texts, these novels should be surrounded by a variety of genres and complexities of texts to help drive standards and understandings in authentic and Holistic ways. T[|ext Sequence Document]

** __Curriculum Maps__ ** in many instances, teachers will have to manipulate the maps to fit the text they are utilizing as their primary and secondary resources as well as the window of instruction they are currently in. This is an archive of the First edition maps that were created for public use.
 * FIRST EDITION MAPS**
 * [[file:kckliteracycurriculum/Common Core Maps First Edition.zip|Common Core Maps First Edition.zip]]**

**Online texts associated with each Map**
Below are links to **AVAILABLE ONLINE TEXTS** from the Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project: The texts are include lexiles and if they are public domain they are linked. This is to support teachers in finding the texts aligned to the above maps. Common Core Mapping Project--Grade 6 Common Core Mapping Project--Grade 7 Common Core Mapping Project--Grade 8 Common Core Mapping Project--Grade 9 Common Core Mapping Project--Grade 10 Common Core Mapping Project--Grade 11 Common Core Mapping Project--Grade 12

__**Curriculum Units Aligned to Common Core**__ __**LEON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS**__ These curriculum units are aligned to the Common Core Standards __**b****ut do not align** **with our Pacing Guides in USD 500**__. Teachers will need to spend time in Professional Learning Communities analyzing the units of study to ensure that they are aligned to the standards that are required in each window of instruction. It is important to understand that we do not teach novels...we teach understanding through novels. **MIDDLE SCHOOL** **HIGH SCHOOL** **__[|MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC SCHOOLS]__** **MIDDLE SCHOOL** **HIGH SCHOOL**


 * Performance Tasks Aligned to the Common Core Standards**

**Challenge Based Learning/Project Based Learning** Challenge and Project Based Learning is a great approach to teaching the Common Core standards. These approaches put the teacher in a facilitator stance and the students make meaning of the "challenges" and "projects" that are placed before them. The websites provided gives challenges and projects that teachers can join or adopt. Teachers will need to spend some time in Professional Learning Communities analyzing how to ensure that the challenges and projects they create are aligned to whatever window of instruction they may be teaching. [|Apple Challenge Based Learning Website] [|Project Based Learning Website] **Resources to Support Project/Challenge Based Learning** [|Petitions and Controversial Issues] [|Using Project Based Learning with Common Core]

**Poetry Units of Study** **Poetry OutLoud Teachers Guide** http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/listen-to-poetry **Unit Collection of Poems** using the FSCMES model of analysis. (feel, speaker, cause, meaning, evidence, style) **Two Units of Poetry**

**__USD 500 Draft Curriculum Unit Maps__** These maps have been drafted by Professional Learning Communities in USD 500. They have been taken through various stages of refinement and are still in the process of revision. __**[|6th Grade Unit Map: Coronado Middle School]**__ __**6th Grade Unit Map: Northwest Middle School**__ __**8th Grade Unit Map: Coronado Middle School**__ __**8th Grade Unit Map: Cross District**__ __**[|9th Grade Unit Map: Harmon High School]**__ __**[|10th Grade Unit Map: Washington High School]**__ __**[|12th Grade Unit Map: Wyandotte High School]**__

Websites and Other Resource to Develop Curriculum Lessons and Activities to design learning activities to drive understandings:
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 * [|http://learnzillion.com/lessons?filters[subject=ela]]
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**Alignment of Middle School Holt Textbook to Common Core** __**Middle School Alignment of HOLT textbook to the Common Core**__