Units and Sample Daily Instructional Plan

Unit 1: Crossing Generations

Essential Question: What can one generation learn from another?

Sample Daily Instructional Plan

Study: 15 minutes

  • Text Study; Reading or Writing Mini-lesson

Read: 15 minutes

  • Independent Choice

Write: 10 minutes

  • Daily Notebook Writing

Create: 30 minutes

  • Whole Class Discussion; Work on an Evolving Draft of Personal Writing (summative writing assessment)

Share: 10 minutes

  • Debrief; Share

Homework

Read 30 minutes each day, at least five days per week.


Unit 2: Imagining the Future

Essential Question: What does the future hold?

Summative Writing Assessment: Argumentative Essay

Unit 3: Transformations

Essential Question: Why do people change?

Summative Writing Assessment: Short Story

Unit 4: Learning from Nature

Essential Question: What can we learn from nature?

Summative Writing Assessment: Research-Based Essay

Unit 5: Facing Adversity

Essential Question: How do we overcome obstacles?

Summative Writing Assessment: Informational Essay