Unit 3:  Make Yourself At Home

Time Frame:  5 Weeks

 

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Unit Description

Students read about characters that grow and change along with their environment.  In recognizing that change is natural, students will come to appreciate their own tremendous potential for inner growth.  This unit focus is on reading, realistic fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction texts.  The writing focus will be on poetry, persuasive writing, and informational text.  Text structures are examined for organization and sequence, literary devices, descriptive details, author’s style and purpose, and elements of nonfiction.  Study strategies will be addressed and students will learn to pose questions of informational text in order to accurately list a chain of events and understand main ideas and details.  Reading strategies will include; questioning to increase comprehension, differentiation of fact and opinion, oral reading fluency, evaluation of informational sources, use of transition words to understand sequence of events, comparing and contrasting to determine likenesses and differences, researching a variety of resources that includes electronic sources, and using story information and life experiences to draw conclusions.   Vocabulary instruction will focus on developing target vocabulary through decoding and context clues.

Enduring Understandings

·            People often must change in order to grow.

·            Characters usually have realistic problems.

·            Literary characters experience change

·            Facts are true statements; opinions are influenced by feelings and personal experiences, and are not necessarily true.

 

Essential Questions

·            How can we benefit from change? How is growing and changing a part of life?

·            How can one change cause other changes?

·            How is fact different than opinion?

GLEs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 14e, 14f, 14g, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d, 19e, 20a, 20b, 20c, 20d, 20e, 21, 22, 23a, 23b, 23c, 23d, 23e, 23f, 23g, 24, 25, 26a, 26b, 26c, 27, 28, 29, 30a, 30b, 31a, 31b, 31c, 31d, 32, 35, 36a, 36b, 36c, 36d, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41a, 41b, 42, 43a, 43b, 43c, 43d, 43e, 43f, 43g, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

Assessments

·            Performance Task

·            Unit 3 Essentials Checklist A – LCC (Interim)

·            Unit 3 Essentials Checklist B – LCC (End of Quarter)  

·            Unit Assessment – Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum (LCC)

·            LEAP Constructed Response