Poetry Unit
Essential Questions:
Driving Questions:
These units includes a focus on nonfiction, poetry, and fiction and their impact on the reader.
Additionally: CLEAR and reading responses *using text evidence correctly, writing a memoir, studying a minimum of two books in a series and character development
Adventure Fiction and Historical Fiction Units
Essential Questions:
Driving Questions:
This unit includes a focus on identifying literary elements and their characteristics, writing an adventure story, and learning the different points of view.
Additionally: Socratic Circles, Book Groups
Research and Mystery Units
Essential Questions:
Driving Questions:
This unit includes a focus on conducting meaningful research, learning to identify the ingredients in a mystery, and identifying different types of irony.
Essential Questions:
- How does our personal experience play a role in analysis of poetry?
- How does figurative language create a deeper meaning for the reader?
Driving Questions:
- How does understanding the author's purpose impact how one reads?
- How do characters change over time?
- How are relationships revealed in memoir?
- How does figurative language impact the reader?
These units includes a focus on nonfiction, poetry, and fiction and their impact on the reader.
Additionally: CLEAR and reading responses *using text evidence correctly, writing a memoir, studying a minimum of two books in a series and character development
Adventure Fiction and Historical Fiction Units
Essential Questions:
- How do the choices we make influence our identity?
- How do conflicts impact our identity?
- How is identity reflected in our choices?
Driving Questions:
- What is adventure fiction and historical fiction?
- How are characters' motivations essential to the plot?
- How do characters' actions communicate a larger meaning by revealing something about self or life?
- How do political and social themes in text shed light on today's issues?
This unit includes a focus on identifying literary elements and their characteristics, writing an adventure story, and learning the different points of view.
Additionally: Socratic Circles, Book Groups
Research and Mystery Units
Essential Questions:
- Why does duress impact our identities?
- How is identity impacted by the choices we make?
- How is identity impacted by governmental decisions/the laws within our society?
Driving Questions:
- How do people handle situations of duress differently?
- How do I conduct credible and relevant research?
This unit includes a focus on conducting meaningful research, learning to identify the ingredients in a mystery, and identifying different types of irony.