Envisioning+English


 * Goals**

EACH STUDENT SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

 * === Share initial impressions after reading ===
 * === Ask relevant questions about the work being read ===
 * === Go beyond initial impressions in order to rethink, develop, and enrich understanding ===
 * === Make connections within and across texts ===
 * === Consider multiple perspectives within the text among and across groups of readers ===
 * === Reflect on alternative interpretations and critique or support them ===
 * === Use literature to gain understandings about self and life ===
 * === Engage in ways of reading that indicate sensitivity to other cultures and contexts ===
 * === Use writing as a way to reflect on and communicate literary understanding ===
 * === Talk and write about a piece in ways that are characteristic of discourse about literature ===

The assessments and standards for each of these goals will vary with the focus of our learning in each unit. The above list is found in //Envisioning Literature: Literary Understanding and Literature Instruction// (pp108-9), Judith Langer, Teachers College Press NY, 2011.

More Goals and Objectives (stated in "I Can..." terms if possible)

 * I can read hard books
 * I can join a conversation
 * I can lead a discussion

Plans