"Reading is Dreaming with Open Eyes"
Interpreting Characters: The Heart of the Story - Students study the complexity of characters and explore themes while developing skills such as inference and interpretation.
Reading the Weather, Reading the World - Students form research teams to delve into topics about extreme weather and natural disasters while developing their skills in cross-text synthesis, practicing close reading, comparing and contrasting, and evaluating sources to determine credibility.
Reading For Life - This is a fiction/nonfiction unit that will help students re-carve their identities as readers.
Detail and Synthesis: Close Reading of Fiction: In this unit, the goal is for students to read up a storm, read books that matter to them, and move up levels of text complexity.
Historical Fiction Clubs - Students practice reading analytically, synthesizing complicated narratives, comparing and contrasting themes, and incorporating nonfiction research into their reading.