Weeks

 Topic:

Concept

Matched to Standards:

Benchmarks

Students will be able to:

Activities

Students will:

Assessments

 Tests:

Quarter 1

Week 1

Active reading skills

Poetry First

 RL 2.1-2.4

 Read texts proficiently

Make predictions, state theme

 Read and present one poem and theme statement.

 Reader’s Notebook:  record daily reading and thinking.  Graded about each 3 weeks.

 Week 2-3

Harris and Me

By Gary Paulsen

 RL 2.1-2.4

Practice reading, thinking, and thematic analysis skills.

 Read a novel in class out loud, making daily Reader’s Notebook entries with summary and independent thinking (6 active reading skills)

  Reader’s Notebook:  record daily reading and thinking.  Graded about each 3 weeks.

AR test over book.

 Week 4-7

The Bean Trees

By Barbara Kingsolver

 RL 2.2-2.3,

3.1, 3.2, 

4.1, 4.2

Practice reading, thinking, literary, and thematic analysis skills.

  Read a novel in class out loud, making daily Reader’s Notebook entries with summary and independent thinking (6 active reading skills)

    Reader’s Notebook:  record daily reading and thinking.  Graded about each 3 weeks.

AR test over book.

Comparative theme analysis:     Harris and Me and The Bean Trees

 Week 8-9

The Grapes of Wrath

By John Steinbeck

 RL 1, 2.1, 2.4, 3.1-2, 4.2

RV 3.1-3.3

Practice reading, thinking, literary, and thematic analysis skills.

Watch historical short documentary of Dust Bowl era

Read a classic American historical novel.

Make daily Reader’s Notebook entries with summary and independent thinking (6 active reading skills)

  Reader’s Notebook:  record daily reading and thinking.  Graded about each 3 weeks.

Quarter 2

Week 1-8

The Grapes of Wrath

By John Steinbeck  

 RL 1, 2.1, 2.4, 3.1-2, 4.2

RV 3.1-3.3

Practice reading, thinking, literary, and thematic analysis skills.

Read a classic American historical novel.

Make daily Reader’s Notebook entries with summary and independent thinking (6 active reading skils)

  Reader’s Notebook:  record daily reading and thinking.  Graded about each 3 weeks.

 Week 9 

Practice reading, thinking, literary, and thematic analysis skills.

 Write a theme essay on The Grapes of Wrath

Take an in-class objective and analysis quiz as well as an AR test on the novel.

 Theme essay

In-class objective and analysis quiz

AR test