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aCTIvITy 2.1
Previewing the Unit
LearNING STraTeGIeS:
Close Reading, QHT, Marking the Text, Skimming/Scanning
my Notes
Learning Targets
• Preview the big ideas and vocabulary for the unit.
• Identify and analyze the skills and knowledge needed to complete Embedded Assessment 1 successfully.
Making Connections
In the last unit, you explored change in your own life. As part of that exploration, you learned to write narratives—both a personal narrative and a short story. In this unit, you will continue to explore change, but now you will broaden your exploration to look at change in the world around you.
Essential Questions
Based on your current knowledge, how would you answer these questions?
1. How can talking and working with others help one analyze a novel? 2. How do internal and external forces help people grow?
Developing Vocabulary
Look at the Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms on the Contents page. Use the QHT strategy to analyze which terms you may know and which you need to learn more deeply.
Unpacking Embedded Assessment 1
Read the assignment for Embedded Assessment 1: Responding to Literature. Your assignment is to write an expository response to the novel Walk Two
Moons. Select one of the following prompts:
• Explain how internal or external forces cause one character from the novel to
grow or change.
• Identify one subplot from the novel and explain how it relates to the main plot of the novel.
• Describe one setting from the novel and explain why it is important to a character or to the plot.
• Discuss how plot, setting, character, or conflict contributes to one of the novel’s themes.
Summarize what you will need to know in order to complete this assessment successfully. With your class, create a graphic organizer to represent the skills and knowledge you will need to complete the tasks identified in the Embedded Assessment.
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