Alignment Chart

Plan to teach World & Contemporary Literature to high school seniors who have learning disabilities in a
blended classroom setting?
Wisconsin State Standards:

Understanding central ideas and themes

Explaining relationships between characters

Analyzing the structure of text

Evaluating the merit of text

Module theme or Topic: A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner
Terminal Objective: Analyze essential human rights and identify human rights infringements while creating
correlations with your own culture.
Enabling
Assessment
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
Objectives
Idea
Explain how
Project
Reading of novel
Classroom
Project:
characters
(character
discussion
Character
have changed
facebook
Facebook
throughout the page)
page
novel.
Determine the
Reading of the novel
Online
effects of the
discussion
level of
Discussion
prompt
political
upheaval
related to the

struggle of
people in
Afghanistan.
Predict
characters
futures based
on whether or
not they stay
in Afghanistan
or move to the
US.
Describe
differences in
cultures and
social
standings in
relation to
factors of
abuse.

Project
(character
facebook
page)

Reading of the novel

You Tube video:
https://youtu.be/S4kyalTT_
wY

Classroom
discussion

Project:
Character
Facebook
page

Project (letter
from Amir to
Hassan)

The Kite Runner movie

Discussion
prompt

Project:
Letter from
Amir to
Hassan

Module theme or Topic: Fly a Little Higher

Terminal Objective: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of the text and analyze their
development over the course of the text including how themes build on one another to produce a complex
account of events.
Enabling
Assessment Idea
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
Objectives
Investigate
Student journal
Reading of novel
Peer review
Project:
students
(blog)
of blog
Student
Field trip to Mall of
thoughts/feelings
journal as
Classroom
America for

based on the text

content and
structure.

Identify
characters and
how they are
introduced and
developed
throughout the
text.

Project (character
homepage/movie)

Childrens Miracle
Telethons largest
Clouds Choir
performance
Laura Sobiech
(author and
mother) guest
speaker

Reading of novel
Introduction video:
http://flyalittlehigh
er.com
Clouds audio:
http://flyalittlehigh
er.com

discussion of
MOA
experience.

Peer review
of website

an online
blog
Create
original
questions to
ask Mrs.
Sobiech
Project:
Student
created
audio clip of
their
reflection on
meeting
Mrs.
Sobiech
Project:
Character
homepage
website with
movie
reviews.

Module theme or Topic: A Long Way Gone

Terminal Objective: Analyze other contemporary cultures to help us better understand our own.
Enabling
Assessment
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
Objectives
Idea

Compare and
contrast
cultural
differences
and
similarities
between the
US and Sierra
Leon.
Generate
reasons for
cultural
decisions in
Sierra Leon
by citing
relevant
historical
context.
Evaluate the
impact of war
on the human
spirit
(specifically a
child).
Compare and
contrast
character
cultures,
lives, choices,
and growth

Discussion

Discussion &
Project (letter)

Reading of novel
Video:
https://youtu.be/RZqNom
g33Yw

Online
discussion
prompt

Reading of novel
Video (listed above)

Responding
to 2 other
discussion
prompts

Classroom
discussion

Project:
Letter to a
political
representati
ve or
newspaper
editor

Project
(character
blog)

Reading of novel
Video:
https://youtu.be/ozsOLdg
p_y0

Peer review
of blog

Project:
Online
character
blog

Project (letter
to
editor/political
rep)

Reading of novel
Movie: Blood Diamond
(parental permission if
under 18)

Letter outline
Venn
Diagram

Project:
Letter to a
political
representativ
e or
newspaper

between A
Long Way
Gone and A
Thousand
Splendid
Suns.

editor

Module theme or Topic: The Hunger Games

Terminal Objective: Compare and contrast elements of the dystopian novel that parallels our own culture.
Enabling
Assessment
Absorb Activity
Do Activity
Connect Activity
Objectives
Idea
Identify and
Discussion
Read:
Online
Responding
describe
http://www.readwritethin
discussion
to 2 other
characteristic
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prompt
discussion
s and themes
on_images/lesson926/De
prompts
of a
finitionCharacteristics.pd
dystopian
f
novel.
Identify
Observation
Reading from above
Brainstorm in
components
(brainstorm
a wiki as a
Reading of the novel
of a utopian
wiki:
class
and a
completed or
dystopian
not)
society.
Illustrate
Project
Reading of the novel
Compile a list
Project:
various types (Glogster
of
Create an
Movie: The Hunger
of
interactive
propaganda
interactive
Games
propaganda.
multimedia
and display
multimedia
poster)
an example
poster using

Justify and
predict
character
emotions,
actions, and
choices
within the
dystopian
world.

Project
(character
facebook page)

Reading of the novel

of each
Compile a list
of characters
and possible
emotions in a
wiki as a
class

Glogster
Project:
Character
Facebook
page