{"product_id":"i-me-you-we-individuality-versus-conformity-ela-lessons-for-gifted-and-advanced-learners-in-grades-6-8-9781618214959","title":"I, Me, You, We: Individuality Versus Conformity, ELA Lessons for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grades 6-8","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2016 NAGC Curriculum Studies Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e I, Me, You, We: Individuality Versus Conformity\u003c\/i\u003e, students explore essential questions such as \"How does our environment shape our identity? What are the consequences of conforming to a group? When does social conformity go too far?\" This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth and aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), includes a major emphasis on rigorous evidence-based discourse through the study of common themes across rich, challenging nonfiction and fictional texts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe unit guides students to examine the fine line of individuality versus conformity through the related concepts of belongingness, community, civil disobedience, questioning the status quo, and self-reliance by engaging in creative activities, Socratic seminars, literary analyses, and debates. Lessons include close-readings with text-dependent questions, choice-based differentiated products, rubrics, formative assessments, and ELA tasks that require students to analyze texts for rhetorical features, literary elements, and themes through argument, explanatory, and prose-constructed writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeal for pre-AP and honors courses, the unit features short stories from Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury, poetry from Emily Dickinson and Maya Angelou, art by M. C. Escher and Pablo Picasso, and primary source documents from Plato, Eleanor D. Roosevelt, William Bradford, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrades 6-8\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmily Mofield, Ed.D., \u003c\/strong\u003e is a consulting teacher for gifted education in Sumner County, TN. She is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher in language arts and has taught gifted language arts classes for 10 years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTamra Stambaugh, Ph.D., \u003c\/strong\u003e is the Director of Programs for Talented Youth at Vanderbilt University. She is the coauthor (with Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska) of \u003ci\u003eComprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOverlooked Gems: A National Perspective on Low-Income Promising Students\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eJacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856084373778,"sku":"9781618214959","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1bddb86b-aed8-40f8-a88c-a350a1219c40.jpg?v=1737495043","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-me-you-we-individuality-versus-conformity-ela-lessons-for-gifted-and-advanced-learners-in-grades-6-8-9781618214959","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}