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Explanation of Backward Design (Training)

Course Designers

How to plan your literature program - Backward Design

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Backward Design Chart (Training)

Course Designers

Use this chart to plan your literature program

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Webcast explaining Backward Design (Training)

Course Designers

How to plan your literature program - Backward Design

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Official Announcements (Inspector’s Bulletin...)

Steering Committee

Official information, announcements and updates

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What's new?

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The new Judy's Corner
Click on Forums on the Toolbar > Judy's Corner, for a direct line to Judy on issues relating to literature modules.

F Literature Exam Winter 2012 and Answer Key
The winter literature exam has now been posted in the Assessment section of the ToolBox. The answer key has been posted, as well.

Site tutorials
Watch short tutorials on how to navigate the site.

Planning your literature program - Backward Design
Access a powerpoint presentation, a webcast and a file to help you plan your literature program

Teach your students to answer Bridging Text and Context
Explicitly teach your students to answer the Bridging Text and Context question.

Assessment tools for the D and F Modules
Have a look at the excel files we have uploaded for calculating the grades for the Literature Log. In the Assessment folder of the Toolbox.

Updated (Jan 2012) list of texts for log
Click here to see the updated list of texts that have been approved, as well as those that have NOT been approved, for teaching the literature log.

Announcement re: procedure when work for log is lost
See the Official Announcements

Check out the new HOTS lessons!
We have just added seven more ideas for you to use for teaching your students HOTS explicitly.

Our Highlights

Count that Day Lost
How do you spend your days? Are they spent in meaningful activity? Does the time get used purposefully or does it get wasted and lost? How does

A Summer's Reading by Bernard Malamud
A short story about how a high school dropout from a New York neighborhood tries to gain respect for himself and deal with the consequences of his actions.

Introduction to Poetry
How should you read a poem?

As I Grew Older
How important are your dreams? What are you willing to do to achieve them? What challenges might you have to overcome in order to achieve them?

The Road Not Taken
How do you decide which path not to take? How important are your decisions? How satisfied are you with them?

The Split Cherry Tree
Instead of going home to help his father with farm work, Dave is kept after school to work off a debt for a tree that he broke when he and his friends climbed it. How will his father react? A story about rural America and different types of education.

Ozymandias
Nothing lasts forever, no matter how great it may seem to be.

Mr Know-All
A story about culture, manners, first impressions, values and prejudices