The main objective & goal of this unit is for students to analyze & write about different aspects of literature. Students will analyze and discuss the big ideas about the characters in a story, the theme, and symbolism. This unit is tied closely together with the current reading unit. We will be writing essays about books in our current reading unit.
Things we will focus on in this unit:
- Continuing to organize our writing using the 5 paragraph essay structure
- Finding big ideas in a text and being able to examine/analyze those ideas through writing.
- Analyzing the importance of turning points, important scenes/quotes from the text.
- Elaborating on ideas to deepen students' thinking.
- Writing thesis statements, and planning essays with box & bullets.
- Finding specific evidence from the text (quotes & paraphrases) to support & elaborate in each body paragraph.
- Revising, editing & publishing.