Although my seventh graders and I enjoyed reading and participating in the NTS ELA7 Module One; Unit One, I felt the final assessment was a little too broad for a seventh grader to organize and answer in the way the state was asking. What I did is I took the essential question from the unit, “How do culture, time, and place influence Salva/Nya’s identity?” and created a detailed outline for the expectations in each paragraph. One of the primary strategies in this unit was gathering evidence fr