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The Power To Change: analyzing Literature and Creating expository Text
Visual Prompt: Plants change from one season to another and often grow in unexpected places. What trait would this plant show that you might use in your own goals for change?
Unit Overview
In this unit, you will read an excerpt from the novel Walk Two Moons and compare and contrast its characters. You will take a trip with John Steinbeck and his dog Charley
to Yellowstone National Park and learn about how dogs affect the lives of humans in Temple Grandin’s autobiography. Finally, you will reflect on the techniques that authors use to explain their ideas and apply them to your own expository writing.
U2nIT
Part One
Part Two Part Three
Novel: excerpt from
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech ............................................48 Memoir: excerpt from
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck ...................................60
Autobiography:
Dogs Make Us Human
from Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson ...................73 Embedded Assessment ....................................................................................82
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