[eBook Code] Developing Core Literacy Proficiencies, Grade 11 (eBook Code, 1st)

Acknowledgments iii

Introduction to the Core Literacy Proficiencies: Becoming a Literate Person vii

Unit 1: Reading Closely for Textual Details: “Lay down all my joys” 1

Goal 2

Topic 2

Activities 2

Reading Closely for Textual Details Unit Texts 5

Text 1: Civil War (Photos) 7

Text 2: The Wound Dresser, “Hospital Visits” (Letter): Walt Whitman 9

Text 3: The Civil War, “Gettysburg” (Video): Ken Burns 12

Text 4: “Civil War 150” (Interactive Website) 12

Text 5: “American Civilization” (Excerpt): Ralph Waldo Emerson 13

Text 6: “Civil War anniversary: The Emancipation Proclamation”: Dr. James A. Burran 15

Text 7: Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou: Sullivan Ballou 18

Text 8: Letter to Franklin Pierce: Jefferson Davis 20

Text 9: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Personal Narrative): Harriet Jacobs 22

Reading Closely for Textual Details Literacy Toolbox 32

Unit 2: Making Evidence-Based Claims: “One ever feels his twoness” 75

Goal 76

Topic 76

Activities 76

Making Evidence-Based Claims Unit Text

The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois 79

Making Evidence-Based Claims Literacy Toolbox 87

Unit 3: Making Evidence-Based Claims About Literary Technique: “This is one story I’ve never told before.” 129

Goal 130

Topic 130

Activities 130

Making Evidence-Based Claims about Literary Technique Unit Texts

“The Red Convertible”: Louise Erdrich 133

“On the Rainy River”: Tim O’Brien 144

Making Evidence-Based Claims Literacy Toolbox 162

Unit 4: Researching to Deepen Understanding: Food: How do our decisions about what we eat affect our world? 207

Goal 208

Topic 208

Activities 208

Researching to Deepen Understanding Common Source Set 213

Researching to Deepen Understanding Literacy Toolbox 218

Unit 5: Building Evidence-Based Arguments: “Culpae poena par esto: Let the punishment fit the crime” 283

Goal 284

Topic 284

Activities 284

Building Evidence-Based Arguments Unit Texts 287

Building Evidence-Based Arguments Literacy Toolbox 290