Curriculum / ELA / 9th Grade / Unit 1: Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Texts / Lesson 10
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9th Grade
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Engage in a small group hexagonal discussion to make connections between texts read so far in the unit.
Excerpt: Introduction to Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain — "Introduction"
Poem: “I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260)” by Emily Dickinson
Video: “My Honest Poem” by Rudy Francisco
Excerpt: Counterfactual by Clint Smith
Book: Fresh Ink: An Anthology pp. 194–209 — Short Story: "Super Human" by Nicola Yoon
Poem: “(citizen)(illegal)” by José Olivarez
Book: How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity pp. 63–72 — Short Story: “Trev” by Jacqueline Woodson
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Understand the definition of personal identity and social identity in order to create an identity map.
Standards
RI.9-10.1RI.9-10.2SL.9-10.1W.9-10.10
Analyze how Susan Cain's tone impacts her argument and purpose.
RI.9-10.4RI.9-10.5RI.9-10.6
Determine an author's attitude towards introversion or extroversion.
RI.9-10.2RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.4
Analyze how Rudy Francisco uses specific personal details and figurative language to develop his central idea.
L.9-10.5RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4
Plan and write a free verse poem that explores your personal identity.
W.9-10.3W.9-10.4W.9-10.5
Analyze how diction establishes and shifts the mood in a poem to convey meaning.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4
Analyze how narrative point of view and story structure shape the reader's understanding of a story's ending.
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.5W.9-10.3
Analyze how the author uses literary devices to convey the boy's complex experience as a child of immigrant parents.
L.9-10.5RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.5
Analyze how the motif of dreams communicates an important theme from the story.
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
Analyze how the author uses symbolism to reveal Jack’s conflict with his cultural identity.
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.5
Analyze how an author's choices for narrative point of view and structure develop a text’s theme.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.5
Analyze how an author uses characterization to reveal a character’s relationship with personal and social identity.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.5RL.9-10.6
Analyze how the author uses diction and figurative language to show contrasting perspectives on the speaker's hair.
Identify a speaker's purpose by analyzing the rhetorical choices the speaker makes to achieve that purpose.
RI.9-10.6SL.9-10.3
Prepare for a Socratic Seminar on overarching questions about Unit 1.
RI.9-10.1RI.9-10.2RL.9-10.1RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3W.9-10.1
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.
SL.9-10.1.aSL.9-10.1.bSL.9-10.1.cSL.9-10.1.d
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.
W.9-10.2W.9-10.4
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.
W.9-10.2W.9-10.4W.9-10.5
Revise a personal reflection essay, incorporating language that draws comparisons or contrasts between unit texts and personal identity.
W.9-10.2W.9-10.2.dW.9-10.4W.9-10.5
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