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Adapted from Wessling, S.B. (2011).

Supporting Students in a Time of


Common Core Standards.
Urbana, IL: NCTE.

TEXTURE TEXTS:
1) Perspective: Identity and the
search for a common human
purpose (W1)
9) Naruto Reading
FULCRUM TEXT(S)
1) The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
2) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
3) Looking for Alaska by John Green
4) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
THEME OR ESSENTIAL QUESTION
The reading within our unit relies
heavily on the different reoccurring
aspects that create identity. The context
texts hopes to establish a bases of what
we are talking about in each lesson while
the texture texts hopes to connect both
the content within the main books and
the context of the shorter texts to create
meaning within their reading of the
texture texts.
Context Texts:
3) I am More Social Justice Video.
4) LOTR Video on relationships (See Lesson for both
links)
6) Martin Luther King Speech: (See Lesson for
Links )
6) Andrea Gibson Video: (See Lesson for Link)
7) LOTR Video on Delegations ( See Lesson for Link)
8) Mean Girls clip

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