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- Overview The Researching to Deepen Understanding units lay out an inquiry process through which students learn how to deepen their understanding of topics. Students pose and refine inquiry questions...
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- Unit 1 begins with a launch of the novel Bud, Not Buddy, with a focus on character development and the author’s use of language. Students will get to know Bud by looking at the challenges he faces...
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- In this first unit of the module, students build their informational reading skills and background knowledge about medieval times through a guided research project.
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- In this second unit of the module, students apply their background knowledge of the Middle Ages to better understand the literary text Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village.
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- In this unit, students move from the monologues of medieval times to modern voices of adversity. They do this through a study of John Grandits’s concrete poems in the collections Blue Lipstick and...
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- In this unit, students are involved in a study of how an author introduces, illustrates, and elaborates on an idea and how an author conveys his or her point of view.
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- In this unit, students are involved in a study of how an author develops point of view and how an author’s perspective, based on his or her geographic location, is evident in his or her writing.
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- In this unit, students delve more deeply into learning about overfishing methods and case studies of specific fish depletion to answer the question: What do you need to know when buying fish?
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- This short unit is the culmination of the study of the hero’s journey in Unit 1 and the elements and themes of mythology in Unit 2. Students write their own “hero’s journey” narrative that follows...
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- In this second unit of module 1, students will delve deeply into mythology: its purpose, elements, and themes that align with themes in The Lightning Thief. While they continue to read The Lightning...
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- What is the hero’s journey? How does knowledge of the hero’s journey help to more deeply understand character? This unit is designed to build students’ background understanding of the archetype of...
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- In this unit, students are involved in a study of how an author develops point of view and how an author’s perspective, based on his or her culture, is evident in his or her writing. Students will...
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- In this unit, students are introduced to the performance task in order to give them a purpose for learning about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Students continue reading and discussing...
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- In this unit, students delve more deeply into learning about the San Francisco earthquake and fire in order to write a newspaper article to answer the question: How did the 1906 San Francisco...
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- In this first unit, students are introduced to the central theme of this module: the delicate balance between human needs and the needs of the natural world. Students launch their reading of...
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- In this unit, students grapple with the question “Do the benefits of DDT outweigh its harmful consequences?” In the first half of the unit, students use a guided researcher’s notebook, research...
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- Building on the research and decision-making process that students completed in Unit 2, Unit 3 is an extended writing process during which students draft, revise, edit, and publish their research-...
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- Overview This English Language Arts /Literacy Unit empowers students with a critical reading and writing skill at the heart of the Common Core: Reading complex texts closely to analyze textual...