Course curriculum

    1. Welcome!

    2. Gather your Materials

    1. What is beyond the surface meaning?

    2. Picture Talk

    3. Inferences

    4. Commercials: What’s the Message?

    5. First Day Fly

    6. Anansi & Characterization

    7. The Lottery & Foreshadowing

    8. The Most Dangerous Game

    9. Story Elements

    10. Mapping Ship-Trap Island

    1. Our First Book Unit

    2. Fiction: Finding Yourself in Unlikely Places

    3. Pick your book & Tell us about it

    4. About your reading journal

    5. Make Book Cover Page

    6. Your Identity is Your Superpower

    7. Get to Know the Author

    8. Character Traits

    9. Family, Culture and Community

    10. Halfway Through: What’s Changing?

    11. Fitting In vs Standing Out

    12. Character Identity Mood Board

    13. My Honest Poem

    14. Book Talk

    1. Nonfiction: Real People, Real Lives

    2. Pick your book & Tell us about it

    3. Make Book Cover Page

    4. What Makes Someone Worth Remembering?

    5. Timeline: Events That Shaped a Life

    6. Local Hero Spotlight

    7. Education as Power

    8. Belief, Identity & Taking a Stand

    9. Research + Context Deep Dive

    10. Book vs Film Comparison

    11. Book Talk

    1. Classics: Dreams, Rules & Resistance

    2. Pick your book & Tell us about it

    3. Make Book Cover Page

    4. First They Came...

    5. Author + Historical Context Mini-Research

    6. Confined World Sketch

    7. Freedom + Control

    8. Theme: What’s the Bigger Message?

    9. Final Book Talk

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