Part 1: Lesson Plan Select a grade level (K–6) and choose a topic or skill/strategy that addresses a reading standard for your selected grade level. Create a lesson plan using the University of Phoenix Material: Lesson Plan Template or an alternate lesson plan format as approved by your instructor. Integrate writing into your lesson. Refer to Chapter 11 in your textbook, Reading and Learning to Read, for ideas on how to connect reading and writing in your lesson. Incorporate at least one technology tool into your lesson. Identify specific ways in which this tool will be used in the lesson to enhance instruction. Be sure to also address the needs of diverse learners within your lesson plan (e.g., English language learners, gifted and talented learners, students with special needs, struggling readers). Part 2: Reflection Write a 350- to 525-word reflection that includes answers to the following questions: 1.What strategy for integrating reading and writing across the curriculum do you currently use in your classroom? How has it been effective? 2.Which writing strategies discussed in this course are new to you? How do they compare with your current writing strategies? 3.In what ways are your current writing instructional techniques effective for your students? 4.What are some technology tools that you currently use in your classroom to enhance your reading and writing instruction? Which new technology tools from this course are you interested in implementing into your reading and writing instruction? How do you plan to implement them?

Looking primarily at two essays in Adolph Reed Jr.'s Class Notes--"Token Equality" and "Posing as Politics"--write a MLA-formatted essay that explores what Adolph Reed argues politics should concern itself with. Key to answering this question is understanding Reed's conception of the effective realm(s) in which to contest politics and effective ways to contest them.On pg. 168 of the book (in "Posing as Politics") Reed writes, "This dismissal of state-centered politics is a signal weakness of the left." What does Reed mean by this? In what ways does the critique he puts forward in this essay grapple with the notion of what is and is not effective politics? In what ways does he deconstruct faulty and ineffective modes of doing politics?One of the aspects of his critique of ineffectual politics is Reed's discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of "identity politics." How do identity politics politics blunt the edge of radical critiques and structural analyses of society? There are parts of other essay besides "Token Equality" and "Posing as Politics" that address questions and ideas in this prompt, so feel free to draw from them. Specifically, "Ethnic Studies and Pluralist Politics" offer insights you may find useful.*Your essay should be at least four pages.*Your essay should have at least 6-7 quotes from Class Notes*Please make sure your essay has an original title (this was something many of you didn't do for the first essay.)