how best to approach any areas needing additional instructional time and
resources. It is imperative that educators allow for time to reteach and
review skills for persistent weaknesses before moving on to another unit.

The entire process of lesson planning for Option Two might look something
like this.

Step One: Develop essential unit questions. (What enduring understandings
do you want students to take from this unit of study?)

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Step Two: Determine themes in selected literature; find multigenre
connections to the themes.

Literature S
elected/Genre

Themes
in Selected Literature

Genre Options

Possible
Thematic
Connections

Literary Text

Poetry

Drama

Fiction (short
story or
novel)

Literary
Nonfiction

Informational
Text

Expository

Persuasive

Procedural