About This Lesson
Making Evidence-Based Claims ELA/Literacy Units empower students with a critical reading and writing skill at the heart of the Common Core: making evidence-based claims about complex texts. These units are part of the Developing Core Proficiencies Program. This unit develops students' abilities to make evidence-based claims about literary technique through activities based on a close reading "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway.."All materials may be found on EngageNY.edu