Michelle+P's+Thematic+Unit+Work 

Possible Content Focuses: 1. __The ____ Land __ by Mildred Taylor 2. __Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry __ 3. The Land - geography, people and places
 * Thematic Unit Step 1 **

Possible Themes 1. People and the Land 2. Where and how we live

I know that my 6th graders will be studying both // The Land // and // Roll of Thunder // during the time I teach my unit plan. There will also be an explicit focus in the geography strands of the common core curriculum. Since I am at Exploris, they have a strong focus in cross-content education and I will need to plan accordingly.

**Thematic Unit Step 3** I. Organizing Questions II. Goals III. Objectives IV. Supplemental Materials/Texts V. Learning Activities
 * What is respect?
 * What is equality?
 * Read the novel
 * Learn about respect and equality
 * Learn more about America's history of civil rights
 * Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
 * Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
 * Talk about the author's purpose in writing the novel
 * Describe the reasoning behind using dialect in the novel
 * Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
 * [|Roll of Thunder] (poem)
 * [|Still I Rise] (poem) by Maya Angelou
 * [|Go Down Moses] (poem)
 * 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
 * Defining Equality poem
 * Newspaper articles describing details in Paul's life
 * Character/Symbol Posters - assign each student a character or symbol to follow in the novel, write down quotes and where it is mentioned in the novel. turn it into a poster that shows how the character or symbol is important to the novel