English 12 · Week 26 · Modern Worlds and Real World Writing
Financial Literacy Texts
Reading contracts, leases, and loan terms carefully.
- Students will
- Students determine the meaning of technical terms in financial documents and explain how they affect decisions.
- SEL skill
- Slow down and check terms before agreeing to something
- What it looks like
- Students slow down and use their feelings as information before making a big decision.
- Content focus
- Reading contracts, leases, and loan terms
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Responsible decision-making
Responsible decision-making is making caring and constructive choices after thinking about what is ethical, what is safe, and what could follow. More responsible decision-making activities
What you get
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Standards
- RI.11-12.4: Reading: Informational Text, Grades 11 to 12, Standard 4
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.11-12.8 Analyzing language choices; ELD.PI.11-12.12 Selecting language resources
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Content Knowledge
- Works with: Any nonfiction
- Popular books named: Nickel and Dimed
Fits these textbook chapters
- StudySync Grade 12, Unit 3: An Exchange of Ideas
- Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC), Module 26: What's Next? Thinking About Life After High School
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More responsible decision-making activities for English 12
- Shakespeare and Ambition Responsible decision-makingAmbition and its costs in Macbeth or another tragedy.
- Satire and Social Change Responsible decision-makingA Modest Proposal and satire as protest.
- Frankenstein and Responsibility Responsible decision-makingCreators' responsibility, from science to AI.
- Ethics of Technology Responsible decision-makingArguing a position on an AI or technology ethics question.
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