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** Developing Assessments That Parallel PARCC ** ** Updated September 14, 2013 ** All of these links are available at: http://writingtotextbrady.wikispaces.com/Quabbin+PARCC+Page = Introductory Materials to PARCC or to The Common Core: =
 * Annotated Bibliography for PARCC/Writing to Text/Developing CC Aligned Units/ **

Videos:
Socratic Seminars (Scaffolding) Patience and Practice and The "N:" Word and Huckleberry Finn. has excellent videos that relate to the Common Core.
 * The Teaching Channel ** [] has videos on all content areas and on the CC.
 * NYC has many videos ** at []

District Determined Measures: Assessments

 * Core Curriculum Objectives (CCOs) for ELA, math, social studies, science, the arts, health, technology, and world languages are included for all grades K-12 as well as possible assessments.
 * // The lists include both local and standardized assessments and evaluate the quality of these assessments based on rigor and alignment with the Common Core at //[|//http://www.doe.mass.edu/edeval/ddm/example//][|/]

CURRICULUM UNITS
ELA, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies: []. Each unit provides a UbD template, a CEPA (Curriculum Embedded Performance Assessment) and at least 50 pages of day-by-day materials and activities.
 * Massachusetts Model Curriculum ** Units (MCU) for most content areas. You have to identify your school to get access.


 * PARCC in Massachusetts ** []


 * NY City ** has tasks, units, and assessments aligned with the CC for ELA, Math, Social Studies, Science by grade levels at []

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 * Science ** : Interactive version of Next Generation Science Standards:

[|English Language Arts] (Rethinking Ophelia; Author Study: Kate Chopin: Hamlet; The Power of Lanuage; Existentialism and Kafka, Government of the people Three Religions, One Sacred Place, Environmental Impact of Pollution in Mexico City, Television in the 50s and 60s, The Case for Revolution (Close Reading of Dec of Ind.), Comparing Economic systems, Alexander the Great, the British Industrial Revolution. The ARTS have a major connection in the ELA frameworks plus in the processes described in the arts frameworks. http://blog.artsusa.org/2013/09/10/educational-leaders-arts-standards-and-the-common-core-lessons-from-recent-research-2/
 * Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC): ELA, Science, Math, Social Studies **
 * ELA: ** []
 * Science: ** [] Engineering disciplines, Life stages in Healthcare, Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems, How are Mitochondria connected to Aging, the Beauty of Evolution; Nuclear Sustainablity, Pesticides, Cryobiolgy, Pandemic, The Laws of Conservation and Photosynthesis, The Effect of Algal Blooms on Marine Ecosystems at []
 * History and Social Studies at ** Literacy Design Collaborative: [|www.literacydesigncollaborative.org/]

[] [|Unit 1: Reading Closely for Textual Details]
 * Odell Curriculum Units ** (literacy, rubrics for Evidence-Based Claims, assessment design—Guidelines for assessing Text Suitability []

[|Unit 2: Making Evidence-Based Claims] [|Unit 3: Researching to Deepen Understanding] Unit 4: Building Evidence-Based Arguments (under development) Part 5. Developing Evidence-Based Writing: Unit 5: Developing Evidence-Based Writing. Students develop the ability to express global evidence-based claims in writing through a close reading of the text. [|**Grade 6 Unit:**] Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford University Commencement Address [|**Grade 7 Unit:**] Cesar Chavez’s 1984 California Commonwealth Club Address [|**Grade 8 Unit:**] //Ain’t I a Woman?//, Sojourner Truth; //Equal Rights for Women//, Shirley Chisholm; and //Wimbledon Has Sent Me a Message: I’m Only a Second-Class Champion//, Venus Williams [|**Grade 9 Unit:**] Plato’s //Apology// (updated unit containing a new translation of the text posted on September 2, 2013) [|**Grade 10 Unit:**] Nobel Peace Prize Speeches of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Barack Obama [|**Grade 11 Unit:**] W.E.B. Du Bois’ //The Souls of Black Folk// [|**Grade 12 Unit:**] President Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address and Secretary Hillary Clinton’s 2011 APEC Address [|Grade 9:] “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” Ernest Hemingway [|Grade 10:] “Because I could not stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson; “Home Burial,” Robert Frost [|Grade 11:] “The Red Convertible,” Louise Erdrich; “On the Rainy River,” Tim O’Brien [|Grade 12:] “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” Raymond Carver
 * Free Downloadable Units **

Grade 9: Brain Gain http://odelleducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/RC-Unit-Texts-G9-10_Brain-Gain.pdf Grade 10: Modern Battlefield: http://odelleducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/RC-Unit-Texts-G9-10_Modern-battlefield.pdf Grade 11: Promised Land: http://odelleducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/RC-Unit-Texts-G11-12_Promised-land.pdf Grade 11: Lay Down All My Joys: http://odelleducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/RC-Unit-Texts-G11-12_Lay-down-all-my-joys.pdf Grade 12: Life Steps Almost Straight: http://odelleducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/RC-Unit-Texts-G12_Life-steps-almost-straight.pdf 1. **National Archives** The National Archives (3) is a fantastic resource. Their website is easy to navigate and includes lots of teacher resources. They feature a daily historical document relating to an event from that day in history. The online catalog can be searched using keywords, and 100 "milestone" documents are identified as significant to American history. 2. **DocsTeach** Also run by the National Archives, DocsTeach (4) is full of activities for educators. The documents are organized by different periods in American history. If you're teaching "Civil War and Reconstruction" or "Revolution and the New Nation," just click on the topic to find hundreds of primary source documents. DocsTeach provides audio, video, charts, graphs, maps and more. 3. **Spartacus Educational** Spartacus Educational (5) is a great resource for global history. It contains free encyclopedia entries that directly connect to primary source documents, making it a perfect tool for educators looking to give students a starting point in their research. It can even be used for a historical figure scavenger hunt! 4. F**ordham University** Fordham University (6) is another good resource for global history. Similar to how DocsTeach organizes primary sources into periods of American history, this site categorizes documents as well. From the "Reformation" to "Post-World War II Religious Thought," teachers can find full texts available from Fordham or similar institutions. These sources are appropriate for the middle school and high school classroom. 5. **The Avalon Project** Broken down by time period then listed in alphabetical order, the Avalon Project (7) at Yale University also has primary sources for global history teachers. This database starts with ancient and medieval documents and moves into present times. In addition to categories that address specific historical periods, the Avalon Project includes links to human rights documents as part of Project Diana (8). 6. **//Life Magazine// Photo Archive** Google and //Life Magazine// have a wonderful search engine that lets users search millions of images from the //Life Magazine//  Photo Archive (9). Not only can you type in key terms to guide your searches, you can also look through images organized by decade (1860s through 1970s) or significant people, places, events or sports topics.
 * History and Social Studies Primary Sources **

Assessment Tasks for grades 6 - 12 [] Achieve.Org math tasks for gr 6 - 12 [] Resource for understanding Math Practice Standards: [] Illustrative Mathematics PK - 12 [] North Carolina Department of Education Math Tasks and other resources [] [|http://commoncoretasks.ncdpi.wikispaces.net]
 * More Primary Sources from **** Awesome Stories ** : [] The collection is large and includes the videos, film trailers, audio files, original radio shows, photographs of historic documents, and thousands of images from engravings and drawings to photographs.
 * Biographies
 * [|Anthony, Susan B.]
 * [|Attila the Hun]
 * [|Beethoven]
 * [|Beethoven's Hair]
 * [|Benedict Arnold]
 * [|Brockovich, Erin] || History
 * [|American Colonies]
 * [|American Revolution - Highlights]
 * [|Assassination of Abraham Lincoln]
 * [|Assassination of John F. Kennedy]
 * [|Auschwitz: Place of Horrors]
 * [|Book Burning and Censorship] || Disasters
 * [|America Attacked: 9/11]
 * [|Black Death]
 * [|Challenger Disaster]
 * [|Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion]
 * [|Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf]
 * [|Fatal Voyage: The Titanic] ||
 * Philosophy
 * [|Bagger Vance and the Bhagavad Gita]
 * [|Bonhoeffer: Martyr of Faith]
 * [|C.S. Lewis]
 * [|Dead Sea Scrolls]
 * [|Easter Story]
 * [|Freedom of Religion] || Famous Trials
 * [|Amistad Incident]
 * [|Animals as Defendants]
 * [|Celia, A Slave]
 * [|Daniel Boone]
 * [|Errol Flynn and His Famous Trial]
 * [|Evelyn: Changing The Law In Ireland] || Sports
 * [|Ancient Olympics]
 * [|Baseball Cards]
 * [|Cinderella Man]
 * [|Rookie, The] ||
 * Flicks
 * [|300 - Battle of Thermopylae]
 * [|42 - Jackie Robinson]
 * [|A Beautiful Mind]
 * [|ARGO]
 * [|Agent of Grace]
 * [|Alamo, The] || The Arts
 * [|A Loose Wire]
 * [|Best Friends]
 * [|Betrayal]
 * [|Blueprints]
 * [|Changes]
 * [|Dad] ||  ||
 * More MATH RESOURCES **
 * More MATH RESOURCES **

[] New York State Resources: **Engage New York** New York City Common Core Performance Tasks all content areas: [|**http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/TasksUnitsStudentWork/**] Georgia Department of Education: Math Common Core units [] Science: Interactive version of Next Generation Science Standards: [] Tri State Rubric for Quality Curriculum Units and Materials []
 * More Curriculum Unit Models: **
 * PARCC ** Documents: Model Content Frameworks by Grade Level

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 * Curriculum Units from the Achieve Site **

CSSCO provides a **SHOWROOM OF MODELS** of many excellent UNITS THAT INCLUDE **MATCHED TEXTS** AND writing to text models for k-12. [] From CSSCO, a helpful model and explanatory video that uses a short Kate Chopin text, "Ripe Figs." []
 * The CSSCO site has comprehensive resources ** that include many models at all grade levels as well as a template to use to assess the quality and rigor of the texts. [|http://www.ccsso.org/Navigating_Text_Complexity/Check_the_Specs.htm] l

America Achieves: [|http://commoncore.ame] __ricaachieves.org__ Better Lesson: [|http://betterlesson.com] EduCore: [|http://educore.ascd.org] LearnZillion: [|http://learnzillion.com] Mathematics Design Collaborative: [] Student Achievement Partners: __ http://www.achievethecore.org __ TNCore (Tennessee’s website): [|http://tncore.org]
 * More Resources: **


 * Close Reading links ** to develop your own lessons for ELA, SS and Science: [|www.cybraryman.com/closereading.html]