UNIT FOCUS QUESTION:
What can blur the lines between what is real and what is not real?
Short Story - "Mirror Image" by Lena Cokely
Article - "Not Everything It Seems" by Arnetta Carter
Folk Tale - "Two Legs or One?" by Joseph Sherman
Poetry - "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats
Poetry - "El Dorado" by Edgar Allen Poe
Screenplay - "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
Graphic Novel - Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Novel - Realistic Fiction - Some examples are, but not limited to:
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich - by Ibi Zoboi
Planet Middle School - by Nikki Grimes
Novel - Fantasy Fiction - Some examples are, but not limited to:
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - by Grace Lin
A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
Determine Author’s Purpose
Cite Evidence
Analyze Folktales
Analyze Humor
Analyze Rhyme
Analyze Rhyme Scheme and Mood
Compare Moods
Analyze Narrator
Analyze Graphic Novels
Compare Versions
Write an Informative Essay
Correlative Conjunctions
Commas
Capitalizing Proper Adjectives
Complex Sentences
Coordinating Conjunctions