Odell Education
High School Literacy Program
Welcome
The Odell Education High School Literacy Program inspires creativity, builds knowledge, and develops skills through student-centered analyses of robust texts and topics. Our instructional units empower students to pose questions, inquire deeply, reflect, and evolve as independent thinkers and engaged participants in a learning community.
Welcome to the
Odell HSLP
Key Features
A Learning Community
Students who use the program establish a learning community—a group of students sharing a common learning experience, learning new perspectives while contributing their own. Working in their learning community, students analyze and discuss complex ideas. Each student builds and expresses their own knowledge of texts and topics while engaging with the perspectives of their peers. Throughout the year, students work in research teams and participate in group and class discussions, establishing a culture of collaboration and discovery.
Knowledge
Students explore a wide variety of classic and contemporary authors and texts in order to build knowledge that is important for high school students, preparing them to thrive in a world of ideas and expression.
Students build knowledge by investigating a topic through organized text sets in each unit. Text sets guide student learning and knowledge development by examining a diverse body of authors, perspectives, and genres. While students develop strands of knowledge within units, they also extend their understanding across units—within each year and across all four years of high school.
Inquiry & Agency
The program emphasizes active learning through inquiry and the vital role inquiry plays in preparing students for college, workforce training, and civic participation in a democratic society. Students investigate topics and texts through recursive and iterative cycles of inquiry, in which they work in learning communities to explore significant issues, refine research questions, find and assess sources for relevance and credibility, and present their research in various forms.
Individual and collective agency is integral to the program. Students frequently choose not only their research interests but also how they will express their learning. In the Foundation Units, for example, students work in teams on specific subtopics and decide how to best present their research findings. Students might present their research to their classmates TED Talk–style or through an interactive webpage that organizes findings both as text and as graphic displays.
Program Guide
The Program Guide contains comprehensive information on the Odell High School Literacy Program.
Built for All Students
The program is intentionally designed to help educators adapt to the unique needs and interests of their students and classrooms.
Integrated optional activities and supports provide flexibility for students who have demonstrated varying levels of mastery so that students are primed to succeed in the rigorous curriculum. Student-support materials, such as graphic organizers, question sets, and vocabulary lists, are designed specifically for educators and students to use in flexible ways. The program also provides Spanish language tools and Spanish supporting texts to increase the opportunities for Spanish speakers to build background knowledge and access grade-level texts to further their English language acquisition.
Monitor Moments
Monitor Moments provide opportunities to track student learning through tasks that are key building blocks for unit Section Diagnostics and Culminating Tasks. These activities provide teachers with evidence of key skill or knowledge acquisition throughout the unit. Monitor Moment labels can be seen on the teacher-facing site only, providing teachers the opportunity to determine which Monitor Moment materials or activities they wish to collect and evaluate. Teachers can utilize the accompanying scoring notes to support the evaluation and integration of student work and data into the Odell HSLP suite of assessments.
Multiple-Choice Quizzes
Coming Soon for Grades 9-10!
Sample Materials
Odell HSLP Professional Learning Videos
These professional learning videos focus on familiarizing educators with the core aspects of the Odell High School Literacy Program.
Introduction to the
Odell HSLP
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Literacy Toolbox
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Preparing a Lesson
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Preparing a Unit
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Remote Learning
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Romeo and Juliet
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Things Fall Apart
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The Great Gatsby
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1984
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Hamlet
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Photojournalism
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Antigone
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What does it mean to live a life well-lived?
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How can I prepare for life after High School?
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Application Unit
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Who changes the world?
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What does it mean to live here?
