Essential Question: How do we reveal ourselves to others?

Enduring Understanding: Characters -like people- reveal themselves through their words and actions. 

Knowledge Focus

In this unit, students will read a prose version and a play version of two stories with iconic characters. They will build schema around the following concepts:

Literature

• Fictional novels, short stories, and plays may vary in length or structure, but they all contain characters that lead the reader through the plot.

• Authors use description, action, dialogue, and tone to illustrate character traits.

• Characters’ actions and reactions influence a story’s plot, as well as other characters.

Social Emotional Understanding

• Real-life actions and reactions have effects on real events and people.

• Characters often exemplify universal human traits and offer an opportunity for readers to make connections to—and examine—themselves, others, and the world they live in.