Alignment Chart
Alignment Chart
Alignment Chart
Plan to teach English 1 to Long Beach City College students online
Module theme or Topic: Active, Critical Reading
Terminal Objective: Students will apply annotation techniques as they read in order to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate
texts.
Enabling Objectives
Assessment Idea
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
After having read
Discussion
Read Annotating the
Practice annotating.
Discussion
about and engaged in
Margins, Critical
Work toward
annotation, students
Reading/Textual
conversing with the
should be able to
Analysis and Thesis,
text. At the end of each
obtain the thesis and
and Dwecks
point Dweck makes,
main support from a
Brainology
write a summary in
text and evaluate the
your own words.
effectiveness.
When finished, think
about Dwecks main
points and how well
they support her
thesis.
Module theme or Topic: Generating a Draft
Terminal Objective: Students will use the writing process to generate a draft of an analytic essay.
Enabling Objectives
Assessment Idea
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Students should be
Thesis draft
Read The Thesis,
Compose a thesis
able to create an
Bakers School vs.
statement responding
argumentative thesis
Education and Platos to the essay prompt.
that focuses on their
Allegory of the Cave
topic and argument.
Connect Activity
Students share thesis
statements with their
small groups (four
students total) and
comment using the
Students should be
Essay outline or draft
able to compose
support for their thesis,
using textual evidence
and analysis to
strengthen their
argument.
Read Invent
rubric.
Students evaluate and
comment on their
small groups drafts
using the rubric.
Connect Activity
Discussion based on
revision vs. editing
which is most helpful.
Final draft