Exploring Human Rights: The Breadwinner
ELA
Unit 2
5th Grade
Lesson 33 of 33
These assessments accompany this unit to help gauge student understanding of key unit content and skills.
Content Assessment
The Content Assessment pushes students to synthesize unit content knowledge or unit essential questions in writing. The Content Assessment should be used as the primary assessment because it shows mastery of unit content knowledge and standards. This assessment should take approximately one class period.
Cold Read Assessment
The Cold Read Assessment tests students' ability to comprehend a "cold" or unfamiliar passage and answer standards-based questions. The Cold Read Assessment can be given in addition to the Content Assessment as a pulse point for what students can read and analyze independently, a skill often required for standardized testing. This assessment should take approximately one class period.
Fluency Assessment
The Fluency Assessment allows teachers to monitor students' oral reading fluency progress with a reading passage drawn from one of the unit's core texts. The Fluency Assessment should be given at the end of a unit. Teachers should plan to pull students one-on-one to do this while the rest of the class is independently reading or writing. Find additional guidance for using this assessment and supporting reading fluency in Teacher Tools.
Lesson Map
Rewrite sections of The Breadwinner from another character’s point of view.
Plan and draft the setting, characters, and plot for a narrative.
- Narrative Brainstorming Graphic Organizer
- Sample Narrative Brainstorming Graphic Organizer (G5, U2, L17)
Standards
L.5.1.cL.5.1.dW.5.3W.5.3.aW.5.3.bW.5.3.d
Develop a narrative by including dialogue to show changes in events, characters, or personality.
- Narrative Brainstorming Graphic Organizer — (Completed on Day 1)
Standards
W.5.3W.5.3.aW.5.3.bW.5.3.d
Develop a character's personality by using dialogue tags to show how a character is speaking.
Standards
L.5.1.cL.5.1.dW.5.3W.5.3.aW.5.3.bW.5.3.d
Write a magazine article that informs readers about a key theme from the unit by stating a claim and providing evidence from the entire unit.
Brainstorm and organize ideas before establishing an opinion about a topic.
- Brainstorming Template (G5, U2, L32)
- Sample Brainstorming Template (G5, U2, L32)
- Two Paragraph Outline
- Mentor Text (G5, U2, L32)
- Description/Concept Map Graphic Organizer (GK–5)
Standards
W.5.1W.5.1.aW.5.9
Plan before writing by outlining main ideas and supporting details.
- Brainstorming Template (G5, U2, L32) — (Completed on Day 1)
- Sample Brainstorming Template (G5, U2, L32)
- Two Paragraph Outline — (Completed on Day 1)
- Sample Two Paragraph Outline (G5, U2, L32)
Standards
W.5.1W.5.1.aW.5.1.dW.5.9
Compose well-developed body paragraphs that expand on key ideas with detailed explanations to support the opinion.
- Brainstorming Template (G5, U2, L32) — (Completed on Day 1)
- Two Paragraph Outline — (Completed on Day 2)
Standards
W.5.1W.5.1.aW.5.9
Organize opinion writing by crafting clear introduction and conclusion sections that effectively summarize the opinion or position.
- Brainstorming Template (G5, U2, L32) — (Completed on Day 1)
- Two Paragraph Outline — (Completed on Day 2)
Standards
W.5.1W.5.1.aW.5.1.cW.5.1.dW.5.9
Delete unnecessary or repetitive language.
- Two Paragraph Outline
Standards
L.5.1.dW.5.4W.5.5
