In this lesson, students use teacher feedback from their mid-unit assessment, as well as the NYS rubric, to identify their individual writing strengths and set goals for their own analytical writing.

This lesson begins a sequence of lessons leading up to students’ end of unit assessment, in which they will write a literary analysis connecting a theme of the Cronus myth to a theme in The Lightning Thief. In this lesson students begin planning.

In this lesson students continue to plan for their literary analysis by studying a model essay and determining the theme of The Lightning Thief.

In this lesson students learn to write an introduction and conclusion for their literary analysis.

In this lesson students begin their end of unit assessment by drafting their literary analysis of The Lightning Thief.

In this lesson students engage in a peer critiique of their literary analysis then learn about the use of pronouns and incorporate both the feedback and lesson into their revisions.

In this lesson students continue to build background knowledge about myths and legends through reading informational text.

In this lesson students use information about the myth of Cronus to interpret a key allusion to Cronus in the central text.

In this lesson students finish their end of unit assessment by incorporating revisions from the previous lessons to create a final literary analysis.

In this lesson students determine the theme of the myth of Cronus and connect details from the text to allusions and themes in the central text.

In this lesson students consider what makes a myth a myth through comparing “Shrouded in Myth” read in unit 1 to  “Cronus.”

This lesson focuses on developing domain- specific vocabulary about mythology that students will use as they read, write, and engage in discussion across the unit.

This lesson has two purposes: first, to support students in making connections between informational and literary texts; second, to scaffold students’ thinking in using elements of mythology to determine the theme of a text.

This lesson introduces students to a model mini-essay with two body paragraphs: one in which the author describes elements of mythology in the myth of Cronus, and a second in which the author describes a significant theme in that same myth.

In this lesson students read about the myth of Prometheus in order to analyze allusions in The Lightning Thief.

In this lesson students determine the theme of the myth of Prometheus and connect details from the text to allusions and themes in The Lightning Thief.

In this lesson, students prepare for their performance task, their own hero's journey narrative, by revisiting the informational text, The Hero's Journey and using it to deconstruct the hero's journey of the main character in The Lightning Thief.

In this lesson students analyze a model narrative and begin planning their own narratives.

In this lesson, students use the informational text “The Hero’s Journey” to justify their plan for their own narrative as fitting the archetypal pattern of a hero’s journey.

In this lesson students process feedback from the end of unit 2 assessment to help them set goals for their writing for the performance task and then begin drafting.