Understanding by Design Unit Plan
Understanding by Design Unit Plan
Understanding by Design Unit Plan
Students will analyze the feelings, traits, and motives of characters in a short
story.
Students will identify ways in which the author informs the reader about a
character in a short story.
Students will analyze the changing and unchanging relationships among
several major and/or minor characters in short stories.
Students will compare and contrast the traits a character has at the beginning
and at the end of a short story and explain what caused any change.
Students will analyze and identify details that support the themes of short
stories and relate them to personal life.
Students will evaluate the effectiveness of the point of view in which a short
story is written.
Students will analyze the plot elements of a short story.
Students will describe the setting and explain how the setting contributes to
the plot or theme of a short story.
Students will identify the mood, identify the ways in which the author
establishes the mood and explain how the mood contributes to the overall
effect of the short story.
Students will identify and interpret figurative language a short story,
including alliteration, onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors, personification,
and hyperbole.
Writing Process
Students will incorporate personal experiences, literature and other sources
of ideas into their own writing.
Students will revise drafts to eliminate unnecessary words and phrases,
combining sentences appropriately and include more vivid and precise
vocabulary.
Students will proofread final drafts for effective use of language,
conventional usage and syntax; appropriate transitions, conventional
punctuation, capitalization and spelling.
Students will participate constructively in discussions and analysis of own
writing and that of others at various stages in the writing process
Students will evaluate their published pieces to judge their success
Writing Products
Students will write personal responses to the text.
Students will write a short story, including plot elements, character
development and literary devices.