In this lesson students read another excerpt of the informational text read in lesson 10 and 11 to continue to build background knowledge about Sudanese tribes.

In this lesson, students use the evidence gathered in the previous lesson to respond to a constructed-response question independently for an End of Unit graded Assessment.

In this lesson students read an informational text to build background knowledge about the lost boys of Sudan and focus on annotating the text and identifying key vocabulary.

In this lesson students gather textual evidence from both the novel and information text to begin preparing for their two-voice poems.

In this lesson students compare the historical accounts of the Sudanese civil war in informational text to accounts in the novel.

In this lesson students analyze the author's use or alteration of historical information in the novel.

This lesson gives students background information that helps them better understand Nya’s story. It includes the Mid-Unit 2 Assessment, which evaluates students’ ability to explain how and why the novel’s author both used and altered historical facts.

In this lesson students read a model poem focusing on how the author of the poem used evidence.

In this assessment students read and analyze several text excerpts and select strong evidence to support their analysis.

In this lesson, students deepen their working concept of identity by exploring how gender expectations influence identity formation.

In this lesson, students begin to explore both ethnicity and sense of agency as aspects of identity.

This lesson continues to work with the text “The Border” and the technique of using the “quote sandwich” to cite evidence in writing.

In this lesson, students begin to explore the idea of self-worth as a facet of identity.

This lesson includes the End of Unit 1 Assessment. After the assessment, students refine and reflect their knowledge of identity by creating three more anchor charts that summarize their knowledge.

This lesson begins a series of three lessons. Students build their understanding of slavery, abolition, and the life of Douglass and hold these ideas on an anchor chart.

In this lesson, students continue to analyze informational texts and cite evidence to support their analysis.

This lesson includes the Mid-Unit 1 Assessment. After, there is time dedicated to launching independent reading for this module.