In Unit 1, students explore the different rhetorical modes through mentor texts and then write their own texts including narrative, compare/contrast, process analysis, definition, classification/division, and cause/effect. Students will explore text structure through the lens of identity and Chimamanda Ngochi Adichie's TEDTalk, "The Danger of a Single Story." Their texts will explore their balanced identity. The unit culminates with an exhibition of learning and celebration of the varied and diverse stories of the students. Identity Journal