Grade: 5

Unit 5 : Identity and the Media

By the end of the unit, students will answer the following writing prompt:
Note to teacher: There are many books on identity. The anchor text we chose was Uglies, but you can choose and read from other texts and just replace the character with another complex character.

Based on what you have learned from reading the book The Uglies state and defend an opinion about the character Tally.

In your essay, you should introduce your opinion. Offer logically organized reasons connected to your opinion by linking words and phrases, making sure to support
your reasons with facts and details. Be sure to provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.
Dont forget:
To introduce the topic clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure with logically grouped ideas
To provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.
To link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses.
To provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.

Week Mentor text Supplemental
text/Multimedia
Standards Assessment
Reading Writing Speaking/Listening Language
1
The Uglies Lexile 770
by Scott Westerfield
Culture and Identity (you
may limit to first paragraph
of text culture and first on
identity or supplement
definitions from other text))
https://www.polity.co.uk/bro
wne/downloads/sample-
chapter_2.pdf

Strategy:
Inferring; summarizing
Standard:
RL.5.1, RL.5.2,

W.5.4, W.5.9 SL.5.1,SL.5.3, SL.5.6 L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.3,
L.5.5, L.5.6
quick write about
theme of The Uglies
supporting choice
with evidence from
the text, share out in
groups, while in
groups students
summarize the
thinking of their
partners
2

The Uglies Lexile 770
by Scott Westerfield
Scope Magazine Article:
Should 4-year-olds be
beauty queens?
December 12, 2011 issue
(includes graphic
organizers for writing a
persuasive essay)
http://scope.scholastic.co
m/scope-vault/12_12_11

American Experience: Miss
America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/a
mex/missamerica/tguide/ind
Strategy:
Determining importance;
summarizing
Standard:
RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.6
W. 5.1, W.5.4,
W.5.5

SL.5.1, SL.5.3, SL.5.6 L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.3, L.5.6 Identify arguments
that support each
side of the issue,
state your opinion in
one sentence. Use
this as your thesis
statement to
complete the essay
organizer..
ex.html


3
The Uglies Lexile 770
by Scott Westerfield
Identity Short Film
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=ikGVWEvUzN
M
or Dove Beauty Evolution
Film
http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
Pair with a poem
see below for possible
poem
Strategy:
Activating prior
knowledge, Inferring,
Standard:
RL5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.7
W.5.1, W.5.4,
W.5.8, W.5.9
SL.5.1, SL.5.3, SL.5.6 L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.3,
L.5.5, L.5.6
Standard 7 Graphic
Organizer
http://www.cobblear
ning.net/drivercatala
no/files/2013/03/Co
mmon-Core-Reading-
Graphic-Organizers-
1lfchyj.pdf
4
The Uglies Lexile 770
by Scott Westerfield
Book Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=fxX8_hMDWJQ
Strategy:
determining importance
Standard:
RL. 5.1, RL.5.6, RL.5.7
W. 5.1, W.5.4,
W.5.5

SL.5.1,SL,5,3, SL.5.6 L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.3,
L.5.5, L.5.6
As a team, create a
trailer to persuade
others to read The
Uglies.
5
If you finish novel early,
The Struggle to be an All
American Girl by Elizabeth
Wong
http://www.oakton.edu/use
r/0/bcrocket/Old%20files.En
glish%20101/wongessay.pdf

A nation's culture
resides in the hearts
and in the soul of its
people.
Mahatma Gandhi
http://www.brainyquote.
com/quotes/authors/m/
mahatma_gandhi.html#
qVsyBUmfOPV0Czve.9
9
Strategy:
inferring; synthesizing
Standard:
RL 5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.6
W.5.1, W.5.4,
W.5.8, W.5.9
SL.5.1, SL.5.3, SL.5.6 L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.3,
L.5.5, L.5.6
Quick write on the
how this author
feels about her
culture
Completion of
Prose Constructed
Response
*note: Bold standards indicate when new standard is introduced
**Note: standards highlighted are the focus standards for the week

I'm scared that I'm pretending,
playing every day.
I'm scared that the me I pretend to be,
is the real one anyway.
This fear is so very childish,
Identity
Anonymous

The face thats in the mirror
It does not belong to me.
but yet it seems so real.
How can I destroy this wretched fear I feel?
---poemhunter.com (can no longer be found at the site)
-author unknown

I wander down the halls
Not sure who I should be.

Some wear their masks
Layered like an onion thick
Removing them as needed
To fit into the click.

But who decides what beauty is?
Must it be just one way?
Who decides if I belong?
Do I have a say?

Hidden beneath the layers
It is waiting there inside me.
To be recognized, acknowledged,
Unlocked, and set free.

I will face the world with confidence
Without a mask or shield
I will be who I am meant to be
My true identity revealed.