This source aims to help students place Naomi Shihab Nye's poetry in conversation with other poems and reading materials, and in doing so, the goal is to help students work on synthesizing sources. The paired passage assignments are designed to offer students and teachers flexibility in accomplishing these tasks. The source is a remix. The original lesson can be found here: https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/gate-4-naomi-shihab-nye

English Instructional Plan – Women’s Equality, Civil Rights, and the Super Hero: Using Paired Passages to engage student learning outcomes   Students will read paired passages about different aspects of women’s fight for equality or the Civil Rights Movement. These readings will provide background knowledge to students to connect these movements to two superheroes: Wonder Woman and Black Panther. This will allow students to analyze the intersection between historical movements and superheroes through various forms of writing. Primary Strand: 8.5/8.6, 9.5/9.6 - Reading Integrated Strand/s:  Writing/Communication/Multimodal Literacies

English Instructional Plan – Multi-day Lesson with Paired Passages “How do Social Pressures Impact our Decisions?” 

English Instructional Plan – Grades 9- 12: Paired Passages – The Threat of Conformity and Indifference and the Power of the Individual