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Several standards inform the writing of this curriculum unit and serve as benchmarks for student achievement of the curriculum goals. The Common Core English Language Arts standard that students will achieve is CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.7 in which students will “Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person's life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.”52 Skills and learning activities will be spiraled throughout the unit to support students before the culminating task in which they will write an evidence-based theme analysis of an image that is supported by historical background research. Additionally, this unit is designed for Multilingual Learner (MLL) students and thus focuses on developing students’ academic language to effectively communicate an analysis of data to support a claim across the domains of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The unit’s language-focused standards are informed by the WIDA Consortium language development standards two and five which state that students will be able to use academic language to communicate effectively in the content areas of English language arts and social studies, respectively.53
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