WEEK 1: Day 1: INTRO Day 2: INTRO WEEK Day 3: INTRO WEEK

WEEK Cultural Artifact Cultural Artifact

Introductory Week Classroom Welcome Activity Presentations: Activity Presentations:
Day 1 Day 2
Unit Themes:

Perspective, Voice & Introduction of Digital Working on Initial
Discussion of
Empathy Glossaries, Personal Writing Responses
Inclusive Classroom Interpretation Journals with Cultural Artifact
Environment; Activity
Presentation of Unit Working on Initial
Themes Writing Responses
with Cultural Artifact
Student Interest Activity
Survey

Assignment of
Cultural Artifact
Activity
WEEK 2: Day 4: READING Day 5: READING 2 Day 6: WRITING
Reading the Text:
Reading the Text Think-Aloud with Reading the Text: Writing Alternate
Sandra Cisneros Think-Aloud and Text- Perspective Journals:
Writing Alternate My Name, Group Coding Connections Responding to writing
Perspective Journals Think-Aloud with with excerpt from prompts and visual
Cisneros Boys and Louise Erdrichs art using instructor
Girls Chickadee created mentor text

Writing Response to Writing Response to

one of Cisneros Louise Erdrichs
stories Chickadee
WEEK 3: Day 7: WRITING 2 Day 8: SUMMARY 1 Day 9: SUMMARY 2

Revising Alternate Grammar Mini- Extracting Powerful Constructing Found

Perspective Journals Lesson: Words and Phrases: Poem:
Coordinating Text Coding
Writing Found Poems Conjunctions Visualization with Students begin to
(FANBOYS) Kwame Alexanders extract powerful
The Crossover, phrases from their
Alternate Instructor Created own writing
Perspective Journals Mentor Text
Writing Workshop Instructor created
Students move from mentor text for Found
center to center in Poem
order to text code
various poems from Students begin to
The Crossover to construct Found
extract powerful Poems
phrases
WEEK 4: Day 10: Day 11: SUMMARY Day 12: SUMMARY
SUMMARY 3 4 5
Writing and Revising
Found Poems Writing Found Revising Found Found Poetry Slam!!!
Poems: Poems:
Found Poem
Performance Additional class Independent Found
time to write Found Poem Workshop
Poems
Discussion of
Revising Poetry Storytelling and
Mini-Lesson: Performance in
preparation for the
Creating strong next class
images

Found Poem Partner

Workshop