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Unit Overview
Unit Overview
This unit focuses on texts with adolescent protagonists who experience circumstances that bring them into the adult world. Students will examine the intentional relationship between the narrative structure of a text, perspective, and meaning. Each text choice in this unit is unique in its narrative form. Exploration of the choices authors make in the craft and structure of written work and the great ideas illuminated in the text will also be central to the unit.
Unit Vocabulary
Unit Vocabulary
Narration
Point of View
Complex motivation
Bildungsroman / Künstlerroman
Figurative Language
Historical fiction
Vignette
Lyrical
Figurative language
Microcosm
Extended Metaphor
Motif
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
Why do we see the world the way we do?
How do relationships shape who we are?
How is our identity developed, changed, influenced?
How do universal human experiences connect us to one another?
Unit Standards
Unit Standards
All ELA standards can be found listed in the updated 2017 Massachusetts State ELA Grade 9 Frameworks:
Students will learn...
Reading Literature
How to analyze how character’s POV and actions signal acceptance or rejection of cultural norms or intellectual ideas of a time or place drawing on a wide reading of world lit
How to compare and contrast the structures of two or more texts analyzing how structure contributes to meaning
How to identify and explain the effect of multiple points of view in a work
Speaking and Listening
How to propel conversation by posing and responding to questions that relate to current discussions as well as those that relate to broader ideas and themes, actively incorporate others into the discussion, and clarify, challenge, and verify ideas and conclusions
Texts
Texts
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
The Book Thief
Mark Zusak
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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