Unit 5: Power of Storytelling & Voice
Unit Description:
In this unit, students will read verse texts focused on storytelling from various perspectives. Students will create their own poems and narratives which will result in a creative writing portfolio. Students will read a range of texts throughout the unit based upon the power of storytelling.
Essential Question:
Core Texts:
Supplementary Texts:
Activities:
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In this unit, students will read verse texts focused on storytelling from various perspectives. Students will create their own poems and narratives which will result in a creative writing portfolio. Students will read a range of texts throughout the unit based upon the power of storytelling.
Essential Question:
- What is the power of storytelling?
Core Texts:
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
- Reading Group Texts: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, Witness by Karen Hesse
Supplementary Texts:
- Journalism: “Gators Fall in Quarterfinals” The Associated Press
- Nonfiction: The Man Made of Words by N. Scott Momaday
- Music: “Filthy McNasty”, Horace Silver, "Wings" by Macklemore
- Paintings: The Block by Romare Bearden, Children’s Games by Bruegel the Elder
- Poetry: Nikki Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, Slam, Dunk & Hook by Yusef Kommunyakaa, Sometimes Silence is the Loudest Kind of Noise” by Bassey Ikp
- Scientific Accounts: This is Your Life (and How You Tell It by Benedict Carey, Your Brain on Fiction by Annie Murphy Paul NY Times
- Speech: The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Videos: Poems listed above, The Human Soul DIstilled by Reading Rockets
Activities:
- Anticipation Guide
- Journals: Prompts, Notes, Vocabulary, Grammar
- Reading Texts, Formats & Strategies
- Writing Lessons: Poetic Elements, Poetic Types
- Writing Pieces: Original Poems: List, Ode, Haiku, others, Compare & Contrast Writing, Power of Stories Writing, Definition Poem/Performance
- Poetry Portfolio, Performance & PBL Living Poetry Project
- Socratic Seminar
Documents:
Unit 2- The Poetics & Power of Storytelling Student Packet | |
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