Subject: Unit 2 Relationships
Time Frame Need for Completion
4 Weeks
Grade Level: III
Grading Period: 1st. Nine Weeks
Unit Title: Life’s Relationships and the Conflicts that follow them
Big Idea/Theme: Expectations and Responsibilities (Rites of passage)
Understandings: Stereotypes; satire; individuality; the impact of societal views on classism
Essential Questions:
1. How does point of view affect the reliability or clarity of the truth that is being revealed?
2. What is a stereotype?
3. What is the difference between freedom and liberty?
4. What impact does slavery have on current day society?
5. What is truth? How do we recognize it?
6. Does knowing “the truth” enable us to change our views of a sterotype?
7. Are we all racist?
8. Who or what determines societal norms?
9. What happens when our conscience conflicts with societal norms?
10. How does fear impact our decisions?
Curriculum Goals/Objectives
W4-Pro and Dist. Produce clear and coherent writing, organization, style, purpose, audience
W5 Pro and Dist. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing,
rewriting, or trying a new approach, focus on addressing what is most significant for specific
purpose and audience.
W6- Pro and Dist. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce publish, and update
RSL-1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves
matters uncertain.
RSL-2. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development
over the course of the text, including how they build on one another to produce a complex account
and an objective summary of the text.
RSL-3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements
of a story or drama (e.g. where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are
introduced and developed.)
RSL-9. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth—
nineteenth—early—twentieth—century foundational works of American literature, including how
two or more texts from the same period threat similar themes topic
LANG- 1 Demonstrate command of conventions—grammar, usage, writing and speaking
LANG- 2 Demonstrate command of conventions of capitalization, punctuation, and
spelling when writing
SP and LIS. 1 . Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
(one-one, in groups, and teacher-led)
a. come to discussions prepared
b. work with peers to promote civil, democratic discussions
c. Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that probe reasoning
and evidence
SP and List. 4. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear
and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, alternative or
opposing perspectives are addressed, and organization, ….
Formative Assessment
Reading Standards for Literature
Say Do Mean;
Satire in all it’s glory
Stereotypes in an intelligent society
Understanding the slaveholding culture of the Pre-civil war south;
One Pager;
Friendship Charts;
Local Color Realism
C-Notes;
essential questions,
Speaking and Listening
(seminars)
Philosophical Chairs
Team Huddle
Matching Wits with Pap (Debate)
Dramatic Interpretation—Using Ren. Poets
Interviewing and conferences;
Gallery Walks using pre civil war pictures
Writing
Reflection Logs;
Documented problem solving;
Literary Analysis Essay;
Developing and supporting assertions using primary and secondary sources
reflection,
revision,
final draft
essential questions,
sources,
parenthetical documentation;
Language
Sentence Starts page 164 of LeMaster’s Critical Reading Deep Reading…
List of words to describe an author’s tone page 152 of LeMaster’s Critical Reading Deep
Reading…
Hyphenation
Spelling
Usage
Contested usage
Figurative language
Sources: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
NONFICTION/INFORMATIONAL TEXT
My Bondage My Freedom
The Declaration of Independence
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Secret Life of Bees
Escape From Slavery(global perspective
“Teaching ‘Huck Finn’”
“The Roots of Racism”
“The Meaning of a Word”
“I Am an American Day Address”
F. Douglas
Thomas Jefferson
A. Lincoln
Sue Monk Kidd
Francis Bok
Minnie Phillips
Raina Kelley
Gloria Naylor
Learned Hand
POETRY
“Incident”
“We Wear The Mask”
“Refugee in America”
“Dream Variations”
“The Dark Tower”
“A Black Man Talks of Reaping”
“On Being Brought from Africa to America”
“Song of Myself”
“The Road Not Taken”
“Still I Rise”
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
“All The World’s a Stage”
Countee Cullen
Paul L. Dunbar
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Arna Bontempts
Phyllis Wheatly
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Maya Angelou
William Wordsworth
William Shakespeare
FILM CLIPS
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Secret Life of Bees
Gone in 60 Sec
Little Children are blind to adult prejudice
Friendship, relationship and conflict, struggles with racial identify,
parental abuse
Deceptive Communication
MULTI-MEDIA
(Identity) The Making of an African-American Identify: Vol: 1 1500-1865
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/identity.htm
(Emancipation)
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/emancipation/emancipation:htm
(Civil War &Reconstruction 1850-1877
90. Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1938
http://lcwebs.loc.gov/ammem/snhtm/snhome.html
An Under Cover Journey Deep Into The World of Sex Trafficking
http://www.pbs.org/programs/
Is Wal-Mart Good for America
http://www.pbs.org/programs/
iTunes: Utunes
http://www.apple.com/iTunes
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest Gaines
MULTI-MEDIA
Mixed Race America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed
Remember Jim Crow American Radio Works
http://www.pbs.org/programs/
Why is Texas #1 In Execution?
http://www.pbs.org/programs/
Burden of Innocence
http://www.pbs.org/programs/
“OTey Article Index” (Letters)
http://www.laguandia.edulesson/oteyarticleindex.htm/deathpenalty
FILMS
Lakawanna Blues
Community
The Tookie Williams Story Death Penalty; redemption
Dead Man Walking
Death Penalty
Remember The Titans
The team like Jefferson becomes the heartbeat of the
community and an example of successful desegregation to their
opponents
Gran Torino
Walt Kowalski like Grant Higgins sets out to reform the
youth
INFORMATIONAL TEXT/HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
“The Unquiet Death of Robert Harris” Michael Kroll
“The Genarlow Wilson Story”
“The Tookie Williams Story”
“Sharecropping”
“Pre-Civil Rights South”
“Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis”
The Diary of Miss Jane Pittman
Teaching Tolerance “Good Morning boys and girls’ When a Simple Greeting Engenders
Stereotypes” By Rebecca S. Bigler pages 22-23
FICTION/EXCERPTS
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
POETRY
“Mending Wall” Robert Frost
“Unknown Citizen” Auden