L.A. Units



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Unit 1: Interpretation Book Clubs
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  1. Readers share and discuss realistic fiction novels in book clubs.
  2. Readers build their identities as readers and explore strategies to write about their reading. 
  3. Readers build theories and gather evidence about characters.
  4. Readers use inferences to build interpretations about texts.
  5. Readers read across books looking at similarities and differences in characters and grow bigger theories about them.
  6. Extending ideas and theories about characters will reveal bigger meanings.


​​Unit 2: Narrative Writing
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  1. Writers use turning point moments as ideas for narrative stories.
  2. Writers use mentor authors’ words to spark ideas.
  3. Writers pause to take stock and use checklists to assess their own growth and set new goals.
  4. Writers look past the story to find out the larger meaning of what they’re trying to get at.
  5. ​Writers revise to resolve problems, develop big meanings in story, have characters learn lessons, and evoke emotions or thoughts in readers.

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​Unit 3: Literary Analysis​

  1. Readers analyze the stories they read in order to develop ideas, writing essays to share those ideas with others.
  2. Essayists analyze literary texts for reasoning and evidence.
  3. Writers learn strategies for revising and editing their literary essays.
  4. Writers develop and share their ideas with the world by choosing important evidence and sharing it in an essay.


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​Unit 4: Argument Reading and Writing

  1. Readers look across texts to gather and develop their ideas about a topic.
  2. Readers grow their ideas about a topic in order to have an opinion and understand the different aspects of an issue. 
  3. Readers gather evidence from a variety of texts in order to share their opinions. 
  4. Readers critique texts with an analytical lens.
  5. Writers share their ideas about a topic by writing 'argument' essays to change the world. 

​​Unit 5: Fantasy Book Clubs

  1. Readers will explore the genre of Fantasy in Book Clubs.
  2. Fantasy readers will use strategies and creating goals will help them to make sense of complex texts.
  3. Fantasy readers envision the story in their mind, creating the world the author is trying to portray.
  4. Fantasy readers develop thematic understandings of texts, know that it is much more than dwarfs and elves.
  5. Fantasy readers recognize and analyze many fantasy archetypes, quest structures, and thematic patterns.