English Instructional Plan – Literary Analysis through Close Reading
All parts of a novel unit for Refugee by Alan Gratz
Learning Objectives: Analyze primary and secondary sources to construct a biography and context for an author's writing. Identify text-based examples of craft, perspective, and other literary elements. Construct a position on whether materials outside of the texts, such as biographies and letters, should influence the way readers understand Poe's texts (and, by implication, any artist's work). Original lesson: https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/106/overview
In this unit, students will delve deeper into nonfiction with a novel study titled, I Am Malala. The students will apply nonfiction comprehension skills and close reading strategies to analyze and explore the challenges of an adolescent girl from a different culture analyze while reading. 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.