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UNIT 3
Visual Prompt: Both sports and academics are valued by society, but sports seem to get more attention. Should academic achievement be as important as or more important than athletic achievement? Can sports participation help prepare you for future success?
Choices and Consequences
Unit Overview
How do the choices you make now shape your future self? In this unit, you will explore how decisions can have far-reaching consequences that determine your character, values, and contribution to society. You will read a novel that focuses on one young man’s emerging realizations about how his personal history continues to affect his relationships
with his friends, teammates, family, and school. You will analyze the choices made by different literary characters and write an essay about the consequences. Also, you will apply your understanding of choices and consequences to a research presentation about a historical figure or world leader who made inspiring choices that helped shape our world.
Teacher
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Collaborative: Students collaborate to write expository paragraphs and to use figurative language and imagery in their writing. Students also work together to support comprehension of stories, nonfiction texts, and films.
Interpretive: Students analyze the words that reveal an author’s perspective and draw conclusions about a text. Students also listen actively in order to interpret clips from a film.
also produce summaries of texts and research as well as their responses to an image. Students also analyze and use the words that create visual images in a poem.
Structuring Cohesive Texts: Students use connecting and transitional phrases to explain a choice that a character makes.
details organizers, and Venn diagrams. Students
UniT 3
Read aloud the Unit Overview, asking students to mark the text
by highlighting words and phrases that help them predict what the unit will be about. Share responses in partner, small-group, or whole-class discussion.
Have students look at the photograph and respond to the visual prompt. You may want to have students think-pair-share to write
a short response or discuss their responses as a class.
TO Teacher
You may want to ask students to think about how the choices they start making at this age might have an effect on their choices in a few years. For example, some students may choose academics over sports because they want to take an AP course and go to college. Others
may choose sports because of their interest and the possibility of playing professional sports. Explore how choices made — even at this early age — may affect later possibilities.
eLL Support
ELD Modes and Processes
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Productive: Students record their notes about
texts in double-entry journals, key ideas and
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