Unit Overview/Summary - FOCUS:

This unit is designed to focus on the central ideas and themes that emerge from literature and non-fiction texts.  Students will analyze the parts of a text to recognize how the parts fit together to convey a central message.  Students will examine a topic and develop the topic with relevant facts and details in a cohesive, organized structure. Students will analyze how information and ideas are presented across media and formats to distinguish the purpose and motives for presentations related to central ideas and themes.  

Teachers may choose to use a theme to anchor the content of this unit such as “courage.”  Teachers may choose to ask students to analyze texts through the themes of courage and ask students to choose an idea or person who exhibits(ed) courage, and to write an informative essay about the topic/person using supporting details from the texts and resources provided.   

Unit Duration:

24 days (20 instructional days and 4 re-teach/enrichment days); Five periods per week based on a traditional bell schedule