CCSS Book Handout

Blog post #7 Reading Informational Texts

On this weeks reading of the NES practice book there were several things that I recognized as important such as the need for evaluating reasoning, evidence, and examples in persuasive texts as well as the extensive information on poetry. Both of which are important for teaching in a secondary education setting.These ideas also flow into the common core standards for reading informational texts and are demonstrated in the NES book by breaking down each of the concepts. i.e. -Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text. Since students are held to these standards it makes sense that this type of information would also need to be provided and understood for the NES. 

Grammar/Writing Presentation Handout

Blog Post #6 Writing CCSS

Writing standards for high school writing are stay relatively the same after 9th grade, which is why the standards for 9&10 are grouped together and the 11&12 grade standards are grouped together. The standards are so similar within these age groups that the standards don't really need to change much.As a future high school teacher (hopefully) I found this to be really interesting. I personally don't remember my own experience in learning for writing in high school so it was a little bit of an eye opener to what is actually expected and what I perceived as being expected.
In the grades 9-12 it seems that it is important to teach things like writing an argument and beginning the look into how to writing research papers as well as conducting research itself.
NES wise; everything in this section of the book seemed to be very cut and clear on what needed tobe known and what didn't. I was familiar with things like using punctuation, conducting research, writing/ citing research. I think that if I was going to teach this kind of stuff that I would definitely have to spend a large chunk of time running through the different sections.