Instructional Video
EngageNY

Engage Ny: Grade 5 Ela: Theme of a Story Rl 5.1, Rl 5.2, Sl.5.1

5th Standards
In this teacher-modeled lesson with a fifth-grade class, students are guided in how to find text evidence that demonstrates the challenges the main character is facing, how to relate those challenges to the themes in the story, and how...
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Engage Ny: Determine Author's Purpose and Analyze Use of Rhetoric

9th - 10th Standards
Students participate in a Socratic seminar and demonstrate how to determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.