home

=Man vs. Society: Conflict Across Literature=

Teachers: Tiffany Dunn, Brittany French, Tynetta Ross, & Danica Trevarthan
(Please visit our " Group Member Roles" page to see what each of these teachers was responsible for creating in this unit.)

//The Little Mermaid by// Hans Christian Andersen
 * __Students will be reading the following texts:__**

//The Birth-Mark// by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Japanese Internment Camp Literature and Other Documents Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 Lange Photograph Poetry

//Let America Be America Again// by Langston Hughes //A Dream Deferred// by Langston Hughes //A Raisin in the Sun// by Lorraine Hansberry

Benchmarks met through this unit as a whole:
 * Benchmark Number: || LA.910.1.7.6 ||
 * Benchmark Description: || The student will analyze and evaluate similar themes or topics by different authors across a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections; ||
 * Subject Area: || Reading/Language Arts ||
 * Grade Level: || 910 ||
 * Strand: || Reading Process ||
 * Standard: || Reading Comprehension - The student uses a variety of strategies to comprehend grade level text. ||


 * Benchmark Number: || LA.910.1.7.7 ||
 * Benchmark Description: || The student will compare and contrast elements in multiple texts; and ||
 * Subject Area: || Reading/Language Arts ||
 * Grade Level: || 910 ||
 * Strand: || Reading Process ||
 * Standard: || Reading Comprehension - The student uses a variety of strategies to comprehend grade level text. ||


 * Benchmark Number: || LA.910.1.7.8 ||
 * Benchmark Description: || The student will use strategies to repair comprehension of grade-appropriate text when self-monitoring indicates confusion, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, note-making, summarizing, using graphic and semantic organizers, questioning, and clarifying by checking other sources. ||
 * Subject Area: || Reading/Language Arts ||
 * Grade Level: || 910 ||
 * Strand: || Reading Process ||
 * Standard: || Reading Comprehension - The student uses a variety of strategies to comprehend grade level text. ||


 * Benchmark Number: || LA.910.2.1.2 ||
 * Benchmark Description: || The student will analyze and compare a variety of traditional, classical, and contemporary literary works, and identify the literary elements of each (e.g., setting, plot, characterization, conflict); ||
 * Subject Area: || Reading/Language Arts ||
 * Grade Level: || 910 ||
 * Strand: || Literary Analysis ||
 * Standard: || Fiction - The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of the elements of a variety of fiction and literary texts to develop a thoughtful response to a literary selection. ||

Number: || LA.910.3.1.3 ||
 * Benchmark
 * Benchmark Description: || The student will prewrite by using organizational strategies and tools (e.g., technology, spreadsheet, outline, chart, table, graph, Venn Diagram, web, story map, plot pyramid) to develop a personal organizational style. ||
 * Subject Area: || Reading/Language Arts ||
 * Grade Level: || 910 ||
 * Strand: || Writing Process ||
 * Standard: || Prewriting - The student will use prewriting strategies to generate ideas and formulate a plan ||


 * Benchmark Number: || LA.910.3.5.3 ||
 * Benchmark Description: || The student will sharing with others, or submitting for publication. ||
 * Subject Area: || Reading/Language Arts ||
 * Grade Level: || 910 ||
 * Strand: || Writing Process ||
 * Standard: || Publishing - The student will write a final product for the intended audience. ||


 * Benchmark Number: || LA.910.5.1.1 ||
 * Benchmark Description: || The student will use fluent and legible handwriting skills. ||
 * Subject Area: || Reading/Language Arts ||
 * Grade Level: || 910 ||
 * Strand: || Communication ||
 * Standard: || Penmanship - The student engages in the writing process and writes to communicate ideas and experiences. ||


 * Benchmark Number: || LA.910.6.4.2 ||
 * Benchmark Description: || The student will routinely use digital tools for publication, communication and productivity. ||
 * Subject Area: || Reading/Language Arts ||
 * Grade Level: || 910 ||
 * Strand: || Information and Media Literacy ||
 * Standard: || Technology - The student develops the essential technology skills for using and understanding conventional and current tools, materials and processes. ||