Lesson 4: Identity Unit Novel: Week 1
Duration of Days: 1
Lesson Objective
Students will read a predetermined number of pages in their novel and annotate in order to successfully participate in a literature circle discussion at the end of the week.
Students will be able to write a reflection based on their notes from the text and from their group discussion.
-What do you wonder? What do you notice?
-What can you: Predict? Clarify? Connect to? Visualize? What is the gist?
-What do you notice about the text’s genre structure and characteristics, literary elements, and the author’s purpose and craft?
-How does a protagonist's identity change over the course of a text, as a result of the influence of other characters, experiences, and conflicts?
-What evidence do you have to support your ideas?
RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, RL.9-10.6, RL.9-10.10; SL.9-10.1, SL.9-10.3, SL.8.4; SL9-10.5, SL.9-10.6; L.9-10.3, L.9-10.4, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.6
DOK 2, 3, 4
Text Chunking
Guiding Questions
Sentence Starters & Response Frames
Small Group Support
Graphic Organizers
Visual Glossary
Modeling
Think-a-Louds
- Completion of Literature Circle Document
- Evidence of text comprehension through participation in discussion
- Written response
Pacing Guide
Novels for Student Choice:
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Monster (Walter Dean Myers)
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Openly Straight (Bill Konigsberg)
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Bad Boy: a Memoir (Walter Dean Myers)
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Winger (Andrew Smith)
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The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
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Dear Martin (Nic Stone)