Unit Topic

Using heroes as a guiding theme, students will interpret messages in texts and communicate
their own understandings using evidence from various resources.
Unit Essential Questions
How do we define effective writing?
How does audience and purpose impact an authors structure, style, and content?
How does a reader create meaning?
How do you effectively and respectfully communicate with others?
Students will know that:
fact and opinion are different.
authors use a variety of characterization methods (what a character says, does, thinks, what
others think or say aout a character, physical description! to help the reader learn aout the
character.
a complete sentence has a su"ect and ver.
items in a series need to e separated y commas.
coordinate ad"ectives of e#ual rank are separated y a comma.
coordinate ad"ectives of une#ual rank are not separated y a comma.
keywords help to refine their search for resources.
research is messy.
ideas or examples that come from other resources or authors need to e given credit within the
text and on a works cited page.
a claim$main idea should e supported with relevant evidence.
a topic sentence provides organization, focus, and direction for their paragraph.
an effective discussion re#uires preparation, contriution, and respect.
elements of a asic plot structure (exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling
action, resolution!, including the heros "ourney.

Students will be able to:
distinguish etween fact and opinion.
support opinions with facts.
support a trait with methods of characterization.
write a complete sentence.
correctly punctuate items in a series.
correctly punctuate coordinate ad"ectives.
use keywords to locate information.
cite resources (print and electronic! using %asyi.
evaluate text ased on authors claim$main idea and relevant evidence.
identify and use effective and respectful discussion techni#ues.
identify parts of a plot structure (heros "ourney!.
write an effective topic sentence.




Heroes Dont Always Wear Capes: Unit Map