It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be.
It’s the year 2000 in New York City.
The following resources can be used to address the impacts of the massive earthquake in Morocco.
Student-generated questions are questions that students write before, during, or after engaging in a lesson or reading a text.
The sentence expansion strategy teaches students how to write more detailed complex and compound sentences.
Sentence combining is a strategy that teaches students to write detail-rich sentences with more complexity.
Sentence deconstruction is a strategy that helps students break down dense and lengthy sentences found in academic texts.
An annotated diagram is a visual that includes labels for each part of an image, text, or diagram that students are using in content-area instruction.
Engineering a text is a strategy that embeds scaffolds and supports directly into grade-level text in order to increase student comprehension.