Digital Unit Plan Final

Digital Unit Plan
Unit Title: Character Development/Motivation in The Hate U Name: Jess Umali

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Content Area: English Grade Level: 10-11
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
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.9-10.1
Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots) and manipulate time (e.g.,
pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

- How do our motivations and opinions of ourselves change after we experience injustice?
- Is it better to stay safe and quiet or put yourself in danger when speaking out on what we believe in?
- Students will know how internal and external conflict affects character development.
- Students will know how an author’s choice in character, plot, setting, etc. can emphasize theme.
- Students will be able to form their own opinion of a text’s conclusion based on real-life examples found through research.
Unit Summary:
What pushes us to speak out against injustice and break our silence? Is the reward bigger than the risk? Starr Carter, the sixteen-
year-old female protagonist in The Hate U Give, witnesses her unarmed Black friend get shot by a police officer. As a result, her life
starts to revolve around these questions and many others. As the only witness, she has to find her voice and do what she thinks is
right while also navigating everything else -- race and class issues, familial strain, and fear of losing everything that she has.
Within this unit, you will understand what justice is worth, and what you're willing to do in order to obtain it. You will also
understand how tragedy may change an individual's perspective of the world. Through class discussion, an online project, and a
research paper, your grasp on these concepts will develop and grow. This issue has many perspectives and whilst difficult to
discuss, will ideally help students move towards a better comprehension of equality and prepare students for future discussions
about police brutality and the rising rate of deaths of young Black people in America.
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:
Provide an online survey on students’ 1. Assign journal entries showcasing 1. Assign an in-class essay on how
feelings/thoughts on the current state of reactions from specific quotes in Starr’s internal and external
police brutality. the book. conflict has changed her
2. Assign a Quickwrite/One Pager on motivations throughout the book.
Starr’s character development in 2. Assign a short informational
the book thus far. research paper on one case of
3. Create and assign a graphic police brutality.
organizer that helps students
categorize Starr’s internal and
external conflicts/development
4. Have a class-wide Socratic
discussion answering the
questions: Are the characters’
decisions and actions morally
correct? What motivates them?
How have their motivations
changed throughout the book?
Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Student Learning Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities:
Objective: (Assessments): Admit and Exit Slip
Students will know Prompt: Talk about the dangers and benefits of speaking out about what you
how both internal and Guided Notes and believe in. Write the name of one other influential individual in history that
external conflict can contribution to class risked everything they had to stand up for what was right.
affect discussion. The Guided Notes:
characterization. student fully Fill out the notes and answer the critical thinking questions provided in
understands the response to the Prezi presentation. Be able to talk about your answers in class.
Students will know concept of conflict
how an author’s and characterization
choices in character, in a boarder sense.
plot, setting, etc. can
emphasize theme.
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Acceptable Lesson Activities:
Objective: Evidence: Webercise: A background primer on The Hate U Give meant to prepare students
Students will be able for things mentioned and illustrated in the book such as the Black Panthers,
to form their opinion Webercise answers. police brutality, and the question of what one is supposed to do when pulled
of a text’s conclusion The student over by the police. Also meant to lead them into thinking about the severity of
based on real-life comprehends the police brutality cases.
examples found topics that will be
through research. discussed in the book
and will be able to
apply it to their
overall understanding
of the novel.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Acceptable Lesson Activities:
Objective: Evidence: Graphic Organizer: Create a Popplet with a partner outlining a single case of
Students will be able police brutality against Black individuals in America. Meant to show students
to form their opinion Popplet and short some resources they can use for their research paper and comb through
of a text’s conclusion presentation of evidence and news articles to find what they believe is the truth.
based on real-life Popplet in class. The
examples found student has become a
through research. temporary expert on
their case.
Unit Resources:
The Hate U Give movie trailer
Teaching Tolerance article: "Living With the Bear"
Newsela Opinion: "Colin Kaepernick's new 'Just Do It' Nike ad pressures NFL to take a stand"
Cult of Pedagogy - Know Your Terms: Code Switching
TEDtalk: "I love being a police officer, but we need reform."
Interview: Angie Thomas' Inspiration for the book
Poem: Tupac's "Rose That Grew From Concrete"
Podcast: "'I Can't Breathe' Examines Modern Policing And The Life And Death Of Eric Garner
Interview: KJ Apa on The Hate U Give
Interview: Steve Kerr: NFL using anthem as fake patriotism
Useful Websites:
Game: Remain Silent: A game about police brutality in America

Database: The Washington Post's 2018 database of police killings of civilians (with links to 2015, 2016, and 2017 databases)

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Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Game: Remain Silent: A game about police brutality in America

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