Enduring Understandings

Readers understand that details in literary texts can provide descriptions about characters and events, and that details in informational texts can convey information. 

Writers understand that characters’ actions affect the sequence of events in a story. 

Learners understand that relationships within a community are affected by culture and traditions. 

Essential Questions: "Knows"

How do readers use describing words and key details to understand a text?

How do writers write about characters and show the sequence of events in s story? 

Module Goals: "Dos"

Readers will identify the describing words and phrases and key details in various texts. 

Writers will compose a narrative that includes developed characters, a clear sequence of events, and a conclusion.

Learners will understand that people have a rich cultural heritage and variety of traditions. 

Evidence of Learning: PBA

Narrative Task: 

Student will think about the characters in the selection they read and write a story in which they continue the story to tell how a character solved a problem.