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Alternate Unit 5
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Determine a theme of One Crazy Summer and write a summary that describes how the theme was developed over the course of the text.
Book: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia — Entire Text
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Analyze the role Delphine plays in the family.
Standards
RL.5.3
Explain why the chapter is titled "Secret Agent Mother" and if the title adequately describes the way the girls perceived Cecile.
Analyze how Delphine’s point of view influences the way events are described and what Delphine wants a reader to understand about her sisters and Cecile.
RL.5.3RL.5.6
Rewrite a key scene from One Crazy Summer from another character’s point of view.
RL.5.6W.5.3
Explain what the girls learn about Cecile in this chapter and how they each respond.
Summarize what the Black Panthers believed based on evidence from the Ten Point Platform.
RI.5.3
Debate if Cecile’s actions show that she truly cares for Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern and she just doesn’t know how to show it.
L.5.3.bRL.5.3
Compare and contrast the girls’ attitudes of the revolution with those of the people who work and attend the center.
L.5.3.bRL.5.2RL.5.3
L.5.1.aL.5.1.cL.5.1.dRL.5.6W.5.3
4 days
Write your own Ten-Point program addressing issues in your community and defend which points are most important and why.
L.5.1.cSL.5.1SL.5.2W.5.1W.5.1.aW.5.1.bW.5.1.c
Determine a theme of a poem and explain how the theme is conveyed through the details and stanzas.
RL.5.2RL.5.5
Compare and contrast Cecile and Delphine’s point of view on the significance of names.
Compare and contrast what Cecile, Delphine, the Anktons, Fern, and Vonetta know and understand and how it influences the way they view Miss Patty Cake.
Defend if Delphine should have been allowed to read the Black Panther paper and why.
RI.5.3W.5.1
Defend if Cecile is or is not growing more attached to Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern.
RL.5.2RL.5.3RL.5.5
Analyze and debate Unit Essential Questions.
RL.5.2RL.5.3SL.5.1SL.5.2
Write a multiple-paragraph essay to answer a Unit Essential Question.
W.5.1W.5.9
Analyze how Sister Mukumbu and Delphine view the Black Panther movement.
RL.5.2RL.5.3RL.5.6SL.5.1SL.5.2
Compare and contrast the narrator’s views and understanding of the revolution with Delphine and her sisters’ and explain what Delphine and her sisters could learn from the narrator.
RL.5.2RL.5.9
Analyze the ways in which the sisters and Cecile are changing.
RL.5.2RL.5.3
Analyze how the girls respond to Cecile's arrest and what their actions reveal.
L.5.1.aRL.5.6W.5.3
Determine a theme of a story from details in the text.
RL.5.2
Analyze the role poetry plays in the movement, by analyzing details that support the development of theme.
Write a poem from a character’s point of view by using poetry to develop experiences using effective literary techniques, descriptive details, and clear sequence.
RL.5.5RL.5.6W.5.3
Defend if Cecile grew and changed over the course of the summer.
RL.5.2SL.5.1SL.5.2W.5.1
RL.5.2SL.5.1SL.5.2
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3 days
Write a continuation of the novel One Crazy Summer.
W.5.3
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