Book Title

What is the big question of the unit? e.g. What is justice?

Unit Summary

This unit explores these themes in this book. The story follows these characters, in this setting. This sentence is some context for the setting of the novel. Here is a small summary of the plot and the central problem raised in the text. Students will do these things while reading the book. Image of the book cover (linked to Amazon?) at left.

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Teacher Context

This section explores the difficulties and challenges teachers may encounter while teaching this novel. These topics are important for teachers to explore thoughtfully and carefully in order to provide students with enough information to interpret this novel. Topics included are below:

One topic
Another topic
A third topic
A fourth one!

Unit Focus

Essential Questions and Understandings:

Essential questions frame the unit. Activities and assignments relate closely to these topics to create continuity and allow the students to be prepared to build understanding, knowledge and skills as they complete tasks toward the final assessments. Understandings correlate to the essential questions. These are take-aways for the unit.

What is the first essential question?
- Students will understand these things. They will see these things. The activities will give them a sense of this thing.
What is the second essential question?
- By doing this kind of activity, students will understand this thing in this particular way.
What is the third essential question? How does that theme relate to these different contexts?
- Students will understand the difference between this thing and that thing. By charting this character's journey throughout the novel, students will understand this thing.

Standards

Common Core Standards:

These Common Core Standards related to reading, writing, speaking and listening in ELA and Social Studies have been chosen to frame student learning:

Reading (Literature)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.XXX.X

Read in this specific way.

Writing

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.XXX.X

Write in this specific way.

Speaking/Listening

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.XXX.X

Speak and listen in this specific way.

Skills

Knowledge and Skills:

Skills that students develop in this unit are closely linked to the Common Core Standards for ELA and Social Studies. Knowledge developed around this unit will include historical background knowledge, elements of story, and the language and vocabulary for the unit. Learning is organized around these categories:

Category 1:

These few things will be learned about category 1.

Category 2:

These few things will be learned about category 2.

Category 3:

These few things will be learned about category 3.

Category 4:

These few things will be learned about category 4.

Final Assessments

These assessments are a culmination of the unit and will follow from one or two of the essential questions. Each unit includes one assessment related to the book as well as a creative or research project.

Final Essay Question:

Here is an essay prompt. Students should do these things in their essay.

Creative/Research Project:

Students will do this thing, either by themselves or in a group. When doing that thing, they will have to do these specific things.

Supplemental Texts

Incorporating multimedia texts creates context that encourages students to take their analysis of themes outside of the novel itself and into the world around them. For this book, the sections are broken up into texts that create context and those that allow for contemporary connections.

Context:

Supplemental Text 1
- A text in this format of this length that about this specific thing.
Supplemental Text 2
- A text in this format of this length that about this specific thing.
Sources about This Particular Topic
- Supplemental Text 3
- Supplemental Text 4
- Supplemental Text 5
- Three resources to provide background on this topic in these formats.
Supplemental Text 6
- A text in this format of this length that about this specific thing.

Contemporary Connections:

Supplemental Text 7
- A text in this format of this length that about this specific thing.
Supplemental Text 8
- A text in this format of this length that about this specific thing.
Supplemental Text 9
- A text in this format of this length that about this specific thing.
Supplemental Text 10
- A text in this format of this length that about this specific thing.

Class Materials

This unit includes pre-reading activities to engage students. During reading activities prepare students to understand figurative language, vocabulary, and literary lessons. Discussion questions and unit vocabulary provide scaffolds for close reading.

Pre-reading:

Activity 1: Students will do this thing.
Activity 2: Students will do this thing.

During Reading:

Activity 3: Students will do this thing.
Activity 4: Students will do this thing.

After Reading:

Activity 5: Students will do this thing.
Activity 6: Students will do this thing.

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