Week

Weekday

Option 1

Teaching, Testing,
Reviewing

Option 2

Benchmarking, Teaching,
Retesting

Option 3

Assessment Only

Week Two

Monday

Thematic Instruction:

revisit essential
questions group work on
research projects

Thematic Instruction:

grouping activity to
discuss reading
(perhaps Socratic
seminar), based on
essential questions technology integration
inquiry-based activity

Test Review and
Debrief:

targeting

short-answer and
essay responses

Tuesday

Thematic Instruction:

group research
project presentations discussion format
debrief of big ideas
related to the theme

Thematic Instruction:

reflective writing using
essential questions or
quotations mini lesson on revising
and editing skills using
reflective writing

Test Review and
Debrief:

targeting revising
and editing skills

Wednesday

Thematic Instruction:

mini lesson on
excerpting textual
evidence group activity to
locate textual
evidence discussion format
(consider silent
discussions)

Thematic Instruction:

mini lesson on
excerpting textual
evidence group activity to locate
textual evidence discussion format
(consider silent
discussions)

Thursday

Thematic Instruction:

introduction of

short-answer
response rubric

Test Administration:

short-answer
question response

Thematic Instruction:

practice with literary
analysis using
discussion format or
technology tool revisit reading and add
to annotations using
grouping format

Friday

Test Review and
Debrief:

examining student
short-answer
exemplars practice with scoring
based on rubric

Thematic Instruction:

mini lesson on
characteristics of
genres (literary versus
informational texts) review of writing
process strategies and
skills

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