Chelsea Hammons
Stay-At-Home Mom
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High Achievement Unit Outcome: ELA10.1 Students will determine a theme or central idea of
Animal Farm and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges
and is shaped and refined by specific details.
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Learning
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ELA10.1. Students will define
1 theme and locate it while
reading the text
ELA10.1.2 Students will interpret texts
to support comprehension
and analysis through
annotating
ELA 10.1.3 Students will collect and
organize evidence from
texts to support analysis in
writing
ELA10.1.4 Students will make up
claims about texts using
specific textual evidence
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Target Type
Indicate whether
each Learning
Target is
Formative Assessment Selected
Knowledge,
Reasoning, Skill, Briefly describe, provide links, or
or Product
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Assessments. 
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Knowledge After an introduction to theme and
its characteristics, students will
locate a desired fairy tale and
describe in a paragraph what the
theme of the fairy tale is.
Reasoning Students will annotate directly in the
text with sticky notes. They will
identify the central themes as they
read each chapter and carefully
describe their reasoning. I will
perform checks at the end of each
chapter to determine if they have
properly identified a theme and have
thoroughly discussed it.
Skill After a lesson about how to properly
embed quotations, students will read
the poem, “Sarah Sylvia Cynthia
Stout,” and identify two quotations
that identify the theme.
Skill, Product After a lesson about writing
commentary, students will use the
poem “Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout,”
to practice writing a commentary
paragraph including a Topic
Sentence, 2 Concreate Details, 2
Commentary Sentences, and 1
Concluding Sentence that discusses
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ELA10.1.5 Students will create Skill, Product
paraphrases and integrate
quotes that support
relevant evidence from the
texts
ELA10.1.6 Students will examine and
convey complex ideas and
write informative texts.
Former 10th Grade English Teacher/
Stay-At-Home Mom
the theme of the poem and their
evidence.
Students will begin to create
paraphrases and integrate quotes in a
writing workshop. First, the student
will brainstorm ideas about the
theme of the text and identify
quotations that support their
analysis. Students will then create an
introduction paragraph and at least 3
body paragraphs and a conclusion
paragraph using commentary
writing.
Product Students will work in partners and
participate in a peer review process.
They will both revise and edit each
other’s papers using a rubric to
follow. They will make revisions to
their paper and then create a final
draft.