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Working With a Foundational Text:

         While creating this unit, I was asked to work with a foundational document or text that I acquired from my senior field placement at a local Lansing Middle School. My mentor teacher supplied me with several state-mandated documents of standards, and I chose to follow the “Common Core” standards for eighth grade English. The Common Core standards are broad guidelines that outline "college and career readiness anchor standards" for reading, writing, speaking & listening, and language use in the English classroom.
        These standards can also be found online at: http://www.corestandards.org

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These images have been extracted from Common Core's document. They represent the types of reading and writing that should occur in my eighth grade unit.

Measuring Text Complexity: Three Factors

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When considering the content for my units, I used these three factors to evaluate the types of texts I chose.