Students will work through two literary texts and two non-print “texts” to write a literary analysis for one of the literary pieces. The analysis will be in the form of a multi-paragraph, informational response to literature asking them to make a claim, cite evidence from the literary text, and comment on how the evidence supports and clarifies the claim. This is the first time students will be exposed to many of these strategies and terms that they will use throughout middle school ELA. For example: the term and strategy of “diffusing vocabulary” (using context information to understand a words purpose and meaning in text) is used in several places in the module and called out for the teacher and student information.
Additional Author of this module: William Weaver
NOTE: An instructional ladder and all instructional resources for this module can be found in an attached
document as a "Teacher Resources" in the "Instructional Resources" section of this module.
