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totheteacher ....................................................................................ix California Common Core and english language development standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Unit 1
Activities
1.1 Previewing the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
1.2 Exploring the Concept of Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
1.3 Choices and Consequences: Paired Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Poetry: “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost
Poetry: “Choices,” by Nikki Giovanni
1.4 Exploring the Personal Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Personal Narrative: “The Scholarship Jacket,” by Marta Salinas introducing the strategy: metacognitive markers
1.5 Analyzing Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Memoir: from Bad Boy, by Walter Dean Myers
1.6 Timed Writing: Choosing a Topic and Drafting a Personal Narrative
1.7 Once Upon a Time: Revising the Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.8 Can You Sense It? Revising the Middle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
the Choices we make
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Personal Narrative: “Why Couldn’t I Have Been Named Ashley?” by Imma Achilike introducing the strategy: looping
1.9 Tie It Together: Revising the Ending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
embedded Assessment 1: revising a Personal narrative About Choice . . . .
1.10 Previewing Embedded Assessment 2: Expanding Narrative Writing .
1.11 Poor Choices: “Phaethon” . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . ..................
Myth: “Phaethon,” by Bernard Evslin
1.12 A Matter of Pride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . ..................
Myth: “Arachne,” by Olivia E. Coolidge
1.13 Symbolic Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . ..................
1.14 Animals as Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . ..................
Fable: “The Burro and the Fox,” by Angel Vigil
1.15 Creation Myths from Around the Globe . . . . . . . ..................
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Informational Text: “A Note from the Author,” by Virginia Hamilton
Myth: “Huveane and Clay People,” from Voices of the Ancestors: African Myth, by Tony Allan, Fergus Fleming, and Charles Phillips
Myth: “Mbombo,” from Voices of the Ancestors: African Myth,
by Tony Allan, Fergus Fleming, and Charles Phillips
Myth: “Raven and the Sources of Light,” by Donna Rosenberg
embedded Assessment 2: Creating an illustrated myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
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