Unit Overview

Week Texts Activities Assessments Resources SLOs

1 Pixar shorts, Pre reading, Having Sightlines 7 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2,
“The Knife” by during students fill in 3.1, 3.2, 3.3,
Sarah Ellis, reading, and plot diagrams. https://x78251 4.3, 5.1, 5.2
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of the on writing map. Frames by Jean 2.3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2
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Discussion. (teacher
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to keep as students
Paragraph due notes. through
for marks. paragraph
Journal writing).
reflections.
Sightlines 7.

3 “The Dinner Writing frames Class mind Writing 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2,
Party”, Mona and paragraph map. Frames by Jean 2.3, 3.1, 3.2,
Gardner, planning/map Pottle 3.3, 5.1, 5.2
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“When
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benefits and Journal through
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drawbacks. reflections. paragraph
writing).

Sightlines 7.

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students better
plan their
stories.

Begin
brainstorming
what the short
story they’re
writing will be
on. Prepare
them to start
formulating
and organizing
their story.

5 Final Using drafting 1.1 , 1.2, 2.1, 2.2

Assignment, and , 2.3, 2.4, 3.1,
writing a short organization 3.2, 3.3, 3.4,
story. 4.1, 4.2, 4.3,
templates
5.1, 5.2
from the
 previous class
plan your
short story. I
will be going
around the
room to talk to
each student
about their
idea and
asking
questions to
help students
clarify and
deepen their
stories.

Exam
Prep/unit
review using
centre based
activities to
help them
brush up on
the material.
Exam will be
some
comprehensio
n questions
from the
stories, and
cover
definitions
from the mini-
lessons.

6 This week I 1.1 , 1.2, 2.1, 2.2

used to leave , 2.3, 2.4, 3.1,
for cushion 3.2, 3.3, 3.4,
4.1, 4.2, 4.3,
room as I
5.1, 5.2
suspect some
of these
activities will
take longer
than I
expected. This
allows one
extra class a
week to catch
up. If they
move along
quickly then
this can
provide extra
time to work
on final
assignment for
the unit. The
Unit test will
also be this
week.