High+School+Curriculum+for+ELLs

2016 = Housing in Spokane =

//This unit is focused around the theme of housing in Spokane. This unit incorporates both math components and social studies components. The math components focus on the costs associated with living, statistics to consider when moving to the city, and growth of the refugee population the Spokane area. The social studies component focuses on the effect of industry on one particular neighborhood's socioeconomics.//

Targeted grade/subject://9-10 Math/Social Studies//

Content, Literacy, and Language Goals:
 * Language Development: //I can use key vocabulary associated with moving and finding housing (such as income, budget, expenses, and population)//
 * Literacy Development: //I can summarize key information within a text//
 * Content Learning:
 * Math content learning (Jay): //I can summarize statistics and data through use of graphs, tables, and informative paragraphs.//
 * Math content learning:
 * Social Studies content learning (Katherine): //I can understand and use academic vocabulary associated with social studies ad history texts.//

= = 2015  Ashes to Ashes, We All Fall Down //Grades: 11-12 // This unit introduces diseases and methods of prevention in the overall theme of examining their role in societal and cultural responses at different points in history. Specifically we examine the current crisis of the Ebola Virus and how it’s impact can be compared and contrasted with the historical Black Plague. Students will have the opportunity to learn more about vaccination and the immune system, and discuss the modes of global prevention and response while also weighing the pros and cons of different action plans.

Language Development:
Students will be able to:
 * Describe preventative measures and responses to disease
 * Support a narrative text point of view using argumentative language
 * Use comparative language when discussing the different geographic and historical effects of disease

Literacy Development:
Students will be able to
 * Use argumentative language
 * Have the ability to cite and draw arguments from a text

Content Learning:
Student will be able to:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Use academic language to discuss disease and immunity
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Understand global trends of response at certain points of history