The Scholarship Jacket Mini-Unit (Great for Distance Learning)
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Grade Levels
6th - 10th
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSCCRA.R.1
CCSSCCRA.R.2
CCSSCCRA.R.3
CCSSCCRA.R.5
CCSSCCRA.R.6
Formats Included
- Google Slides™
Pages
56 pages
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Description
Engage your middle schoolers with a short story about fairness, integrity, and overcoming prejudices. "The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas is a great story to teach character analysis, theme, and critical thinking skills. Everything you need to support student comprehension, foster text-to-self connections, and assess learning throughout is included. This unit is the ultimate resource for differentiated learning and text analysis anchored in a central text.
As part of the mini-unit, you will receive:
- Quick-Write prompts
- Debatable questions
- Daily Exit Tickets for formative assessment
- Scaffolded Comprehension Questions
- Character analysis web (paper and electronic versions)
- Bloom's Taxonomy jigsaw activity
- Paired passage lesson using the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling
- Point of view and theme mini-lessons
- Tic-Tac-Toe Review Game
- Summative Text Evaluation Task
Total Pages
56 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
N/A
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSCCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
CCSSCCRA.R.2
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
CCSSCCRA.R.3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
CCSSCCRA.R.5
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
CCSSCCRA.R.6
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
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