Lesson 10 | Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Texts | 9th Grade English

“Introduction” — "Introduction"
“I'm Nobody! Who are you?”
“My Honest Poem”
Counterfactual
Fresh Ink: An Anthology pp. 194–209 — Short Story: "Super Human" by Nicola Yoon
“(citizen)(illegal)”
How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity pp. 63–72 — Short Story: “Trev” by Jacqueline Woodson

Standards

RI.9-10.1RL.9-10.1SL.9-10.1.aSL.9-10.1.bSL.9-10.1.cSL.9-10.1.dW.9-10.1

Lesson

Analyze how the author uses symbolism to reveal Jack’s conflict with his cultural identity.

Materials

The Paper Menagerie

Standards

RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.5

Lesson

Analyze how an author's choices for narrative point of view and structure develop a text’s theme.

Materials

How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity pp. 7–21 — Short Story: “A Word from the Nearly Distant Past” by David Levithan

Standards

RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.5

Lesson

Analyze how an author uses characterization to reveal a character’s relationship with personal and social identity.

Materials

Borders

Standards

RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.5RL.9-10.6

Lesson

Analyze how the author uses diction and figurative language to show contrasting perspectives on the speaker's hair.

Materials

“Hair”
“Hair”

Standards

L.9-10.5RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4

Lesson

Identify a speaker's purpose by analyzing the rhetorical choices the speaker makes to achieve that purpose.

Materials

“Our fight for disability rights—and why we're not done yet”

Standards

RI.9-10.6SL.9-10.3

Lesson

Socratic Seminar

Prepare for a Socratic Seminar on overarching questions about Unit 1.

Materials

All unit texts
Personal Identity Summative Socratic Seminar (G9, U1)

Standards

RI.9-10.1RI.9-10.2RL.9-10.1RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3W.9-10.1

Lesson

Assessment

Socratic Seminar

Formulate and share unique arguments about meaning in and across all texts from Unit 1. Support arguments with strong and thorough textual evidence in a summative Socratic Seminar.

Materials

All unit texts

Standards

SL.9-10.1.aSL.9-10.1.bSL.9-10.1.cSL.9-10.1.d

Lesson

Assessment

Performance Task

Brainstorm and outline a personal reflection essay in which students consider how the texts in Unit 1 have been a window into another's identity and/or mirror of their own identity.

Materials

All unit texts
Personal Reflection Essay Graphic Organizer (G9, U1, L18)
Unit 1: Personal Reflection Essay Performance Task 2024

Standards

W.9-10.2W.9-10.4

Lesson

Assessment

Performance Task

Begin to write a personal reflection essay in which students consider how the texts in Unit 1 have been a window into another's identity and/or mirror of their own identity.

Materials

All unit texts
“In 'Turning Red' I finally saw myself reflected in a main character”

Standards

W.9-10.2W.9-10.4W.9-10.5

Lesson

Assessment

Performance Task

Revise a personal reflection essay, incorporating language that draws comparisons or contrasts between unit texts and personal identity.

Materials

All unit texts
Personal Reflection Essay Rubric Review (G9, U1, L20)
Personal Reflection Essay Graphic Organizer (G9, U1, L18)

Standards

W.9-10.2W.9-10.2.dW.9-10.4W.9-10.5

Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Texts

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Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Texts

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