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Unit 2: Traditions/Relationships Time
Frame: 9 Weeks |
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ELA > Grade 7 > Unit 2 |
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Unit Description This unit
will focus on comparing and contrasting, making inferences, and realizing
connections between literature and everyday life. Students will read poetry,
short stories, folk tales, and a classic play. |
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My interactions with others make a difference in my relationships and
self-concept. ·
Basic human needs and motivations are constant across time. ·
Looking at my roots helps me to better understand who I am. ·
The same problems and possibilities recur across generations. |
Essential Questions ·
How do my relationships with others affect my self-concept? ·
How can the basic needs of food, shelter, human connection and freedom
increase my capacity to love and be loved? How can being deprived affect me? ·
How are the values of my parents and grandparents like/unlike my own?
How does my past impact my values and beliefs? ·
How can I identify cross generational problems? What can I learn from
them? |
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GLEs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 36, 38,
39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46 |
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Content Questions ·
What techniques do authors use to describe characters? ·
How do I identify and explain the point of view of the narrator or
other characters, as expressed in the characters’ thoughts, words, or
actions? ·
What is the universal theme of this literature and how can I relate it
to my life? ·
How do I interpret a story, prose, speech or play with poise, quality
and use of voice, inflections, enunciations, pronunciations, and physical
expression? |
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Assessments ·
Performance Task ·
Performance Task Rubric ·
LCC Unit Assessments ·
iLEAP Practice |
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