Louisiana's New English Language Arts Guidebook - National Council of Teachers of English

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Louisiana’s New English Language Arts Guidebook


State: Louisiana
Level: P12
Analyst: Ratliff, Clancy

The Louisiana Department of Education has made its English Language Arts Guidebook 2.0 available online. It contains lesson plans, assignment prompts,
assessments, and other teaching materials. Some of the units are online now,
with others to follow. See
https://learnzillion.com/resources/81666-english-language-arts-guidebook-units

The full list of units is available here:

http://www.louisianabelieves.com/docs/default-source/links-for-newsletters/ela-guidebooks-2-0-unit-release.pdf?sfvrsn=2

The texts and units are as follows:

Third grade: the Louisiana Purchase; Treasure Island; Cajun Folktales; Stories Julian Tells; Because of Winn-Dixie

Fourth grade: The Whipping Boy; the American Revolution; The Lightning Thief; Hurricanes; Pushing Up the Sky

Fifth grade: Making of a Scientist; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Wonderstruck; The Birchbark House; Shutting Out the Sky

Sixth grade: Out of the Dust; Steve Jobs; Witch of Blackbird Pond; Hatchet; If Stones Could Speak

Seventh grade: Written in Bone; The Giver; Memoir; Christmas Carol; Behind the Scenes

Eighth grade: Call of the Wild; Sugar; Flowers for Algernon; Tell-Tale Heart; Conservation

Ninth grade: Hope, Despair, and Memory; Romeo and Juliet; The Odyssey; Fahrenheit 451

Tenth grade: Rhetoric; Metamorphosis; Henrietta’s Dance; Macbeth

Eleventh grade: Our Town

Twelfth grade: Hamlet

Here is a sample writing prompt from the seventh grade memoir unit:

After reading several pieces about “growing up,” write a memoir based on a real and appropriate personal experience using the techniques outlined by Zinsser, Riordan, and Strunk and White, and captured on the Quality Criteria for Memoir Writing Checklist.

● Be sure to engage and orient your reader by establishing a point of view, introducing characters, and organizing a logical sequence.
● Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, a variety of transition words, phrases and clauses, relative details and sensory language, and a conclusion that reflects “a universal truth.”

NCTE position statements that my be relevant to this material include:

https://www2.ncte.org/statement/ethnic-studies-k12-curr/
https://www2.ncte.org/statement/diverse-books/
https://secure.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Positions/Adol-Lit-Brief.pdf
http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/21stcentdefinition
https://www2.ncte.org/statement/multimodalliteracies/