Unit Overview/Summary - FOCUS:

In reading, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas requires the ability to think across related texts to compare and contrast a theme or topic. The focus of this unit is for students to understand how classic literature serves to inform the themes, events, and characters in modern-day texts. Students will be able to explore and analyze how modern-day authors use myths, traditional stories, and religious texts to create new renditions.  

Key Ideas and Details in the informational text require students to have increasingly sophisticated reading comprehension skills as they demonstrate knowledge of key concepts of reading. In this unit, students will develop and use the skill of making connections and distinctions between individuals, ideas, and events. By analyzing the author’s use of comparison, analogy, and categories, students will gain a deeper understanding of the connections and distinctions an author is making within the text.  

Unit Duration:  

29 days (25 instructional days and 4 re-teach/enrichment days); Five periods per week based on a traditional bell schedule