This lesson explores how The Giver addresses issues of personal identity, memory, and the value of reading and education. It also examines how this newer read relates to other famous classics in this genre and books that students may have read on their own.
For this summative, students will read a text that speaks to the theme of “Overcoming Obstacles”. Using this text, students will explore the development of a theme, figurative language, sound devices, foreshadowing, symbolism, and irony, and other fiction standards.
For more than 400 years, Shakespeare's 37 surviving plays, 154 sonnets, and other poems have been read, performed, taught, reinterpreted, and enjoyed the world over. This Teacher's Guide includes ideas for bringing the Bard and pop culture together, along with how performers around the world have infused their respective local histories and cultures into these works.
All parts of a novel unit for Refugee by Alan Gratz
In this unit, students will delve into a novel study for Refugee. The students will use the novel as a vessel to practice and apply comprehension skills. Students will also explore the challenges of three adolescents who are all faced with the difficult decisions of having to leave their homes. The students will show mastery by completing a Persuasive Writing Performance Based Assessment.
In this unit, students read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry selections about acts of courage, big and small, ordinary and extraordinary. Throughout the unit students will assume the role of a blogger and write expository essay profiles about the people and characters they read about and their acts of courage. This work will be curated in a Google Site that will serve as the Performance Based Assessment.
In this unit, students will read the novel, A Long Walk to Water, analyzing characterization, plot, and setting in small groups. Students will read informational text and watch videos about The Lost Boys of Sudan and the water shortage crisis in Sudan to give them background knowledge regarding major events in the novel. A journaling activity will be used to help students respond to events in the novel. The unit will culminate with a two voice poem performance based assessment.