Created by: Peña
Subject: Intermediate ELL
Essential Questions
What does it mean to be
prejudice?
Why do we have
prejudice/discrimination?
How do we overcome
prejudice?
Content
Vocabulary building
Characterization
Plot structure
Types of Conflicts (man vs.
man, man vs. society, man
vs. nature, man vs. self)
Skills
Text-Self Connections
Text-World Connections
Inferences
TAP- writing to a prompt.
Thesis & transitions for
introducing/concluding
Past Tense usage
How can I be successful in
Mrs. Peña’s class?
Vocabulary Building
(evidence, IR, exit slip,
objectives, goals, grade
scale, plagiarism,
homework, Do Now)
IR Journal routine
Levels of Questions
Selecting a book at your
level
Reading Directions
Annotating your thinking
October-December
Unit: Discrimination
Assessments
Vocab Quiz/chapter
Reading Strategy Check
in’s/Goals
Partner essay “How has
Phil changed over the
book?”
Timed Write “What have
you learned about
discrimination throughout
the unit?”
“Tell me about your last
year in school.” preassessment
Syllabus Quiz
IR Journals
Set up of
Writer’s/Reader’s
notebook
Reading Strategies
Questions
Resources
Movie “Remember The
Titans”
Book “The Jacket”
The Diary of Anne Frank
Yang and His Terrible
Ear—Visions B
Survey—Could you survive
in a different culture
Visions Activity book B
27,35,59,67,119,261,
September
Handouts:
Syllabus
IR Reflection sheet
Writers/Readers Notebook
set-up
PPT- Levels of Questions
Pictures from National
Geographic
January
STANDARDS:3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.3.1,4.1.1,4.1.2
1.3,2.1, 2.2,2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3,
visualizes and describes images from text, connects text to prior knowledge
Increases vocabulary through reading across content areas
infers and makes generalizations from text
Reads text containing compound sentences, yes/no questions, negative, simple past and future tense, and pronoun referents across content
areas
Chooses and maintains a focus, utilizing a topic sentence and supporting details
Uses basic transitions
Essential Questions
How do text
features help you
understand
nonfiction?
How does
recognizing text
organization help
you find meaning
in text?
Why is locating
main idea and
supporting
details important
in writing a
summary?
Content
Text Elements
Summary Writing
“The First Olympics”
“Mae Jemison Space
Scientist”
“Hearing: The Ear”
“The Lewis & Clark
Expedition”
“The Art of Making
Comic Books”
Skills
Determining
Vocabulary in context
Proper Nouns/Noun
clauses
Determining
Importance
Paraphrasing
Summarizing
Assessments
Graphic Organizers
Post-it notes
capturing thinking
Summaries for
readings
Oral Summary of
readings
****Semester
Final**** Reading
Evaluation of the
different reading
strategies Inference,
Text-Self, World,
Text—paraphrasing,
summarizing,
determining
vocabulary in context
Resources
January
Reading Explorer 1
Step Up to Writing
Visions B
Visions Activity book B 10,57,74,92,
106,153,154,169,171,185,187,192,202,209
Azar Fundamentals of Grammar
How can visual
aids/graphic
organizers help
us understand
nonfiction?
Standards:
EALR1.1.2, 1.1.3
February/March
Courage
1.2.2, 1.4.1, 2.1.1,
2.1.6, 2.1.3,
2.1.4,2.1.5, 2.1.6,
2.2.2, 2.2.3,2.3.2,
2.3.4, 2.4.1,
1. What is courage?
2. In what kinds of
situations might a
person need
courage?
3. What personal
strengths enhance
one’s chances of
survival?
4. How do
surroundings affect
one’s survival?
How do our
relationships with
others affect us?
Writing Rubric
“Life Doesn’t
Frighten Me at All”
“Earthquake”
Nonfiction article
“The Courage to Go
to School” (read
online)
Bridge to Terabithia
Complex sentence
structure: Dependent
clauses/Conjunctions
Elaboration/Revision
Graphic Organizer
Drafts to writing
process
Readers Response
sheets
Expository Essay “In
what situation have
you had to show
courage?”
Self Evaluation of
essay
Visions B
Movie Bridge to Terabithia
Visions B Activity book Pages22,29,30,42,101,102,125,126,149,150,205,206,
“The Tiger Rising”
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Vocabulary
Development
Inferences,
Commentary,
Connections
Identify Symbolism
Theme
Vocabulary Quizzes
Reading Check in’s
Figurative language
Quizzes
Essay: The theme of
a book is what the
author wants you to
learn from reading
the book. What do
you think the theme
of The Tiger Rising
is?
Look at the options
below.
Friendship is
important
Talking about your
April-June
“The Tiger Rising”
Visions Activity Book 11,19,75
Shel Silverstein “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
selected poems
problems with
people helps.
People deal with
death/problems in
different ways.
or Kate DiCamilo
uses a number of
symbols Choose
three of the symbols
that DiCamilo uses
and write a fiveparagraph essay in
which you discuss
what these symbols
represent.
STANDARDS: