In this lesson, students will read and find the gist of a new excerpt of “Comprehending the Calamity.”

In this lesson, students use their poster drafts, prepared text, and selected graphics to complete their final scientific poster for the hosted Gallery Walk in Lesson-10.

In this lesson, students use their research to determine the who, what, where, when, and why of their newspaper article.

In this lesson, students will make connections about DDT by reviewing the informational articles, videos, charts, and graphs in order to draft personal claims and identify evidence to support them.

In this lesson, students will learn how to read aloud and model effective speaking techniques in preparation for their presentations at the end of the unit.

In this lesson, students will listen to Steve Jobs’ section of the speech in order to find the gist and identify unfamiliar vocabulary in a short extract.

In this lesson, the first in the next series of the two-lesson cycle, students will focus on paragraphs 12-14 of Steve Jobs' Commencement Address, reading for gist and determining the meaning of unknown words from context.

In this lesson, students will do further research in order to build background knowledge and increase their ability to work independently.

In this lesson, students will share reasons for the decline in the peregrine falcon population, focusing on the "Public Fear" excerpt from "The Exterminator."

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 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.

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.