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Practice Makes Permanent

We kept this formula consistent so that you and your students always know what to
expect. We envision a workshop usually taking two days of class time, though
sometimes we recommend condensing to one day. While this instructional cadence is
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consistent, your delivery of the content doesn’t necessarily need to be the same each time.
Here are a few different models to consider when following Path B
(On grade-level/College Board suggested pacing):
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Approach Before Class In Class Homework
Standard model n/a • Deliver Big Idea instruction in class • Read Practice Text and
• Work through Model Text and Guided answer text-based focused
Questions skill questions
Flipped classroom • Students read skill instruction and • Comprehension Check on Assigned • Apply skill in Practice Text
complete graphic organizer Reading by answering after-text
• Work through Guided Reading and questions
• Students read Guided Reading and Guided Questions
Practice Text
No homework n/a • Deliver Big Idea instruction in class n/a
• Work through Model Text and Guided
Questions
• Read Practice Text and fill in graphic
organizer Discuss after-text questions
• Review the graphic organizer and
answer the text-based focused skill
questions

Teaching the Ideas in Literature Sections

Ideas Are at the Heart of This Textbook

The purpose of the Ideas in Literature section is to introduce students to enduring
themes that are at the core of great literature and are critical to understand in order
to interpret complex literature and write sophisticated literary analyses. In this
section, we introduce these ideas and give some idea of what they mean, how they
rose to prominence, and even a bit of historical context.
From there, we ask students to see how the great voices throughout history
have mustered these ideas in order to build beloved literary classics. The Ideas in
Literature section is a pool of readings for you to choose from, not a section that is
required to be taught in full. It encourages teachers and students to explore and
analyze ideas that have shaped literary traditions through the ages.

Texts to choose from
Each part of the Ideas section includes two or three texts. They are provided as two
options for you to assign or for your students to choose as practice. The first text
in these collections is always a work of British literature. The texts in these collections
are not intended as paired texts for comparison, as comparison is not a key skill in
every unit. The first text is older and the others are typically more contemporary.
The first text is also chronologically aligned while the others usually are not. Finally,
at least one text is always challenging, while at least one text is more accessible for

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