Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: To Kill a Mockingbird Name: Eva Grimm

Content Area: English Grade Level: 10
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
CCSS RL 2 - Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text,
including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS RL 3 - Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a
text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

CCSS RL 6 - Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience re ected in a work of literature from outside the United
States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

CCSS W 3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and
well-structured event sequences.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

What happens when people fear what they do not understand?

How do we learn to empathize with others?

What is prejudice? Discrimination? A stereotype? Why do they exist? How do they influence injustices?

Students will understand the structural elements of the novel.

Recognize literary devices and incorporate them into their writing.

Recognize and examine historical examples of injustices that have happened and continue to happen in the United States.

Unit Summary:
By the end of this unit, students will have gained a better understanding of typically American views and conflicts
regarding education, prejudice, bravery, and respect of the individual. Students will also be able to define their
viewpoints on the major themes (courage, coming of age, racism and prejudice), as well as understand the structural
elements of the novel. They will be able to demonstrate this by incorporating literary elements from the novel into their
writing, particularly by writing a first-person narrative about a personal experience. Students should be able to
recognize and examine historical examples of injustices that have happened and continue to happen in the United
States. Finally, students will answer questions to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the main events
and characters in To Kill a Mockingbird as they relate to the authors theme development.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:
There is an entry level assessment on my There will be journal assignments where The summative assessment is a final
teacher page that involves students students will be required to respond to essay. Students have to choose from
answering a questionnaire. This specific prompts, as well as the text in three prompts. With one of these three
questionnaire has been designed to get general. They should provide personal prompts, students have to write a well
students thinking about the major topics commentary and insightful looks at the thought out two page essay. The three
and themes that will be featured in To Kill text. different prompts have to deal with major
a Mockingbird. The questionarre requires themes and motifs in the novel, such as
that students answer seven questions the mockingbird,
with I agree or I disagree. They also
have to explain their answer. The
questionnaire has been created using
Survey Monkey.
Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities:
Objective: (Assessments): o I will give a lecture that gives a brief overview of To Kill
Students will learn
a Mockingbird and its context. I will also give students
the background and Students will be
historical context of assessed by how well
elements that they should be looking for as well as
To Kill a Mockingbird. they fill out their themes in the novel. Students will follow along with the
This lesson will also guided notes as well lecture with a set of guided notes. This lecture will
prepare students for as how they complete include an activity where students are meant to
what themes and the anticipatory describe what is going on in a photo. The photo must be
topics they should be questions on the a little ambiguous so that there are a few different
looking out for in the website.
novel.
descriptions of what they think is happening. This is
meant to allow students to try and put themselves in
someone elses shoes and realize that there are
 multiple perspectives on things.

Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)

Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Objective: o Students will utilize Chromebooks to complete a
Students will interact The assessment will
worksheet that will help provide historical context for
with a novel in come from how
meaningful ways. thoroughly students
the novel. Students will be given a list of websites, and
They will be able to fill out the timeline they must pull information from each site to create a
connect on a personal and how well the timeline of historical events that may have had some
level, and look at a events connect to To influence on the novel or people living during the period
novel from a Kill a Mockingbird. the novel takes place (ex Scottsboro boys trial)
humanistic standpoint
rather than just
memorizing facts.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Objective: o Students will complete a plot diagram in order to
Students will analyze Students will be
analyze literary elements of the novel such as:
different elements of graded for
a novel and how they completeness as well
symbolism, foreshadowing, irony, setting, conflict, and
all come into play. as how insightful and protagonists/antagonists.
creative their analysis
is for each literary
element.
Unit Resources:

https://www.quia.com/cb/89416.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/

http://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021

http://www.scsk12.org/STT99_WQ/STT99/Houston_HS/traversej/traversequest/studquest.htm

https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/tools/storyboard/preview/83953d7a-c1c2-47cd-b37f-5fbd65b7a278/?resource=a7ac2b33-ffcb-4606-96bd-
16050729afcf
Useful Websites:

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/literature-games/to-kill-a-mockingbird-letterfall/

http://time.com/3928162/mockingbird-civil-rights-movement/

https://texasdeafed.org/uploads/files/online-resources/TKAMCharacterCube.pdf

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/631926206731649026