Mirrors & Windows Connecting with Literature - American Traditions - Annotated Teacher's Edition

CONNECTING WITH LITERATURE: Excerpt from Program overview (Grades 6-12): Connecting with the Text: provides multiple opportunities for students to make important connections, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections. Text-to-Self Connections: Reader's Context questions before reading and Mirrors & Windows questions after reading ask essential questions that encourage students to make connections to their own lives and the world around them. Text-to-Text Connections: Connections to a variety of primary sources and informational readings give relevance to literature by helping students to see relationships between literature and other content areas and texts. The three types of text-to-text con-nections are: 1.Informational Text Connections; 2. Literature Connections; 3. Primary Source Connections The Comparing Literature feature pairs two selections that are connected by common literary elements to develop analytical comparison skills. Text-to-World Connections Cross-Curricular Connections are embedded within selections and provide relevant background information on other subject areas. EMC's literature program, Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature, Provides opportunities for students to explore new worlds full of people, cultures, and perspectives different from their own. CONTENTS IN BRIEF: Unit 1: Origins of the American Tradition to 1800; Unit 2: New England Renaissance 1800-1850; Unit 3: Slavery and the Civil War 1850-1865; Unit 4: Expanding Frontiers 1865-1910; Unit 5: Early twentieth Century 1910-1929; Unit 6: Depression and World War II 1929-1945; Unit 7: Postwar Era 1945-1960; Unit 8: Early Contemporary Era 1960-1980; Unit 9: Contemporary Era 1980 - Present.