ELA 3-4: Unit 0 & Unit 1

Unit 0 is designed to launch the school year with community-building activities and some background information about the U.N. Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) that students will examine throughout the course.

In Unit 1, students explore speeches and texts by various activists. They explore voting rights, climate justice, and the fight for quality education for all. They will learn more about the U.N. Sustainable Development goals, will analyze the goals in relation to unit texts, and will create a product about one Sustainable Development Goal. Students will explore claims, evidence, and reasoning in texts and will demonstrate their understanding through a rhetorical precis (academic summary). They will explore how activists inspire change and start to understand that they, too, can inspire change.