After spending time studying Engage NY and the performance tasks as set forth by common core, we found several great, NEW, non-fiction that could be used among many of our teachers. Below are just some of the texts we evaluated for close read quality, attached to a specific performance task, and have shared with our colleagues:
Marc Aronson - Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 feet Below the Chilean Desert
Performance Task: RI 6.5 Analyze the Structure: The author paces his story on a way that creates suspense in regards to the rescue. Students can analyze how he uses the book's structure and arranges sections to create this effect.
Karen Blumenthal - Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
Performance Task: RI 9-10.7 Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums. This book could be compared with Ken Burns' PBS series "Prohibition."
Karen Blumenthal - Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton built Walmart and became America's Richest Man
Performance Task: 9-10.3 Analyze how the author unfolds a series of events.
Eric H. Cline - Digging for Troy: From Homer to Hisarlik
Performance Task: 8.1 Cite the textual evidence supporting an analysis of what the text says explicitly and through inference.
Penny Colman - Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World
Performance Task 9-10.1 Cite textual evidence to support an analysis of what the text says explicitly and implicitly.
Deborah Hopkinson - Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
Performance Task 7.9 Write about how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentation
Sue Macy - Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (with a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
Performance Task 9-10.8 Delineate and evaluate the central argument, assessing reasoning and evidence.
Albert Marrin - Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
Performance Task 8.3 Analyze how a text makes connections among distinctions between individuals, ideas, and events.
Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson - The Elephant Scientist
Performance Task 6.7 Integrate information presented in different formats as well as in words to develop an understanding of a topic.
Laurence Pringle - Billions of Years of Amazing Changes
Performance Task 7.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases including figurative, connotative, and technical; analyze the impact of specific word choice on meaning and tone.
James Swanson - Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis
Performance Task 7.5 Analyze the structure of a text and how major sections contribute to the whole.
(Ideas for books were taken from a workshop given by Kathleen O'dean)
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