Unit 1: Challenges Time Frame: 9 Weeks
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	Unit Description In this theme, students will learn about the process of self discovery and facing challenges. They will read and listen about young people who discover their strengths and abilities while growing up. Students will be encouraged to look within themselves and examine their own unique attributes. Through this unit students will recognize cause and effect relationship, paraphrase and summarize events make inferences, draw conclusions and make judgments, answer both literal and inferential questions, compare and contrast, identify character traits, plot story elements, and sequence events. Writing instruction will focus on narrative writing with editing and revising. Students will recognize the types of sentences, supply correct ending punctuation, identify synonyms, decode idioms within a given text, and identify complete and simple subjects and predicates in a given text. Vocabulary instruction will focus on developed word lists, dictionary skills, and contextual clues.
	Enduring Understandings · It is important to keep an open mind when I meet new people. · Everyone has different talents and abilities. · Everyone has worth and value. · Difficult situations help me discover my inner strength.	Essential Questions · Why is it important to keep my mind open to the views of others? · Why is it important to know about the experiences of others? · How are my talents and abilities different from others? · How can I learn from a challenge?
	GLEs: 1a, 1d, 3, 4, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 6a, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 8, 9, 10, 11a, 11b, 11c, 12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, 12e, 12f, 12g, 13, 17a, 17b, 17c, 17e, 17f, 18a, 18b, 18c, 18d, 18e, 19, 20a, 20b, 20c, 20d, 20e, 21a, 21b, 21c, 21d, 21e, 21f, 21g, 22, 24, 26c, 27, 28b, 28d, 34, 35, 38, 41a, 41b, 41c, 43a, 44a, 44b, 45b, 46
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