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- Using "More Guns, Less Crime" to teach using evidence to support the thesis of a critical essay regarding the gun-control/gun-rights debate. - Includes rough pacing plan, possible essay prompt, and links to several good articles and videos.
 * Sample: Standard 9.10-1 English: "Cite strong and thorough textual evidence" **

- Using the 529 plan to teach using textual evidence
 * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis**


 * Writing Standard 9-10: Arguments:** Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

- Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. - Explanation: Use digital media to engage viewers and visually demonstrate findings/intended material. Guide:
 * Transformations**: Grades 11-12: Making strategic use of digital media
 * Once students finished the work/project (to be presented). Introduce them to prezi.com.
 * Use free web 2.0 tools to create media (graphics, audio and video) such as photoshop.com, audacity.com, animoto.com, etc.
 * Show how integrate media into prezi.com.
 * Have them work in groups to create an interactive web presentation.
 * Present work.

- Students will be presented with a context that includes quantitative data and will have to recognize patterns and determine an expression that best fits the context.
 * Building Functions 101:**: Determine an explicit expression, a recursive process, or steps for calculation from a context.

In these standards, students will be expected to create equations and inequalities to represent real-world relationships. They should also be able to graph these equations and interpret the information shown. They will also be expected to manipulate formulas in order to focus on a particular variable. These standards are important because they form the backbone of math curriculum.
 * Creating Equations and Inequalities:**