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Connection to Curriculum Standards
The following is an excerpt from the California Standards
for the Teaching Profession (CSTP). These excerpts provide
key elements for scaffolding strategies that connect the
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, essay curriculum
with the Oakland Unified School District Standards (OUSD).
Key Elements
- Help all students gain access to useful materials,
resources, and technologies to support their leaning of
subject matter.
- Connect the student’s prior knowledge, life experience,
and interests with learning goals.
- Apply a variety of instructional strategies and resources
to respond to the student’s diverse needs.
- Facilitate learning experiences that promote autonomy,
interaction, and choice.
- Engage students in problem solving, critical thinking,
and other activities that make subject matter meaningful.
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) ELA/ELD
The Reading Comprehension Standards that frame the series
of lessons and assignments include:
ELD Standards: Level 9-12
- EI: Read own writing of narrative and expository text
aloud with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.
- B: Use a standard dictionary for determining the meaning
of unknown words.
ELA Standards: Level 9-10
- 2.3 Generate relevant questions about readings on issues
that can be researched.
- 2.8 Evaluate the credibility of an author’s argument…by
critiquing the relationship between generalizations and
evidence…(primary source material).
The Writing Strategy Standards that frame the series of
lessons and assignments include:
ELA Standards: Level 9-10
- 1.9 Revise writing to improve the logic and coherence
of the organization and controlling perspective, precision
of work choice and the tone by taking into consideration
the audience, purpose, and formality of the context.
The Literary Responses that frame the series of lessons
and assignments include:
ELD Standards: Level 9-12
- EI: Read and use detailed sentences to orally explain
the literary elements of theme, plot, setting and characters.
- EI: Briefly describe what a character is like by what
he/ she does in a familiar narration, dialogue, or drama,
using simple sentences.
- Identify several literary elements and techniques (e.g.
figurative language, imagery, and symbolism).
ELA Standards: Level 9-10
- 3.6: Analyze and trace an author’s development
of time and sequence, including the use of complex literary
devices (e.g. foreshadowing, flashbacks).
- 3.8: Interpret and evaluate the impact of ambiguities,
subtleties, contradictions, ironies, and incongruities
in a text.
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