Regents Global 9 Week 30 Enduring Issue Essay Special Ed Modified No. ei36

Global 9 Enduring Issue Essay Special Education Modified Week 30 No. ei36, "Of Law Codes and Trade Roads MODIFIED"

Product Serial Number: ei36 (modified version of ei35)

This is an "Enduring Issue" essay modeled on the draft New Regents examinations in New York State scheduled to begin in 2019 as described at EngageNY. This product is the Enduring Issue essay from my collection for Global 9 week 30 that has been modified for special education. The documents in the essay have been re-written in plain English and confirmed to be in the Lexile range of 600L-900L. Readability was calculated using Lexile Free Readability tool.

This essay requires knowledge of these objectives from the New York State Social Studies Frameworks: 9.1c, 9.3b, 9.3b, 9.5a, and 9.4c.

This is the modified edition of enduring issue number ei35 in my collection. The texts are at an upper elementary reading level.

The product includes the following:

1. The modified student version of the essay prompt in PDF format (ei36.pdf) where each document has been re-written at an upper elementary reading level.

2. A grading rubric. This is my rubric, based on the NYSED rubric, for scoring on a scale of 100 in the classroom.

3. Copy of the NYSED rubric

Sold separately: "Assessment Pack" which includes (a) the teacher version of the essay prompt (Social Studies Framework references, suggestions for teaching from my experience, and suggested enduring issues likely linked to the documents that students could see); (b) Sample simulated student essays at different score levels for rating purposes; (c) PowerPoint for students to guide learning to write this essay (slides of each document with prompts for whole group discussion or debriefing).

Sold separately: Regular education version of this essay prompt.

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Teacher's Notes on this Essay Prompt:

This is the modified edition of enduring issue number ei35 in my collection. The texts are at an upper elementary reading level.

This was the first enduring issue essay I composed and its original theme is pretty obvious: law codes. Nonetheless, students see many issues running through these: trade, slavery and social hierarchy, and even cultural diffusion can be addressed effectively (all the law codes here were exported to other civilizations).

Students have excerpts from Hammurabi`s Code, Asoka`s Rock Edicts, the Twelve Tables of Rome, and Justinian`s Code. The map is of the whole Afro-Eurasian trade network. Students can bring a world of outside information to these texts from all of these civilizations and comment easily on how these elements continue to be echoed into the present.