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Unit Title: Literary Analysis

Name: Jeannette Narvaez

Content Area: English Language Arts

Grade Level: 10

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it
emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3
Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact
with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1
Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse
partners on grades 910 topics, texts, and issues, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:
Students will further develop their own points of view on these essential questions:
What is the value in being able to think freely?
Does knowledge contribute to a persons definition of true happiness?
How does society control someones development?
Unit Summary:
This is our unit on critical analysis through the eyes of Ray Bradbury in his acclaimed novel, Fahrenheit 451. This dystopian world
follows a series of characters who display to the readers various points of view about a central idea: reading books. We will be
following the novel through a Tracking My Reading system, reading quizzes, creative activities, journals, and an analytical
essay. This unit is about exploring the different ideas explored in Bradbury's world, and applying them into our present society.
We are analyzing the idea of freedom within thinking, as well as discovering whether our lives and our happiness are easily
persuaded by the standards held in our respective cultures and societies.
Assessment Plan:

Entry-Level:
Quick Writes open ended topic
questions/guiding questions
Tracking Your Reading Chart marking
where different characters, events,
themes, language pop up in the reading

Formative:
Reading Quizzes based on the reading
KWL Journal Entry 3-part journal entry
filled out throughout the lesson
Concept Wheel used to have
discussions about the reading and create
theme statements

Summative:
Fahrenheit 451 Movie Poster
Presentation create a poster for a
movie with explanations for actor/setting
selections
Literary Analysis Paper a synthesis
paper based on Fahrenheit 451
connected with two other literary sources
read in class

Lesson 1
Lesson Activities:

Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence
(Assessments):

Students will develop

their reading skills
through keeping track
of their reading in a
chart.
Lesson 2

Quick Write and

Tracking Reading

Begin with a quick write. Then, introduce the author and book we will be working with.
Introduce the chart to be utilized in tracking reading. Explain the chart, watch part of a video
talking about the book, and then ease into the reading.

Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

Comic Strip

Begin with a KWL entry. Introduce the topic for the day, explain how it relates to the
assignment, and then introduce the comic strip which will take up the rest of the
period. This will lead into the movie poster assignment later.

Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

Students will create a

literary analysis essay
based on a theme in
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray
Bradbury.
Unit Resources:

Concept Wheel

Quick write based on a guiding question that relates to the reading. Then have the
students share, put them in groups for discussion, and by having them fill out this
wheel, the essence of the paper will show through this type of assignment because
it is practice for creating a claim later.

Students will learn

how to analyze
characters and their
actions through
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray
Bradbury.
Lesson 3

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