S1+Bernhardt,+Jennifer

=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= A2 Literary Texts Grades 9-Diploma //A Story Like the Wind// Students read text within a grade appropriate span of text complexity and present analysis of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, using excerpts from the text to defend their assertions. a. Analyze the characters' external and internal conflicts d. Evaluate the themes in a literary text. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts - A.Reading

//What understandings are desired?//
• Literary text has themes that are universal, but show different perspectives and can be implicit and explicit. • People and things can be depicted and interpreted in many different ways. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * • Literary texts contain internal and external conflicts that can be related to real life

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• Why are these themes important to the novel? • How does Laurens Van der Post develop his characters? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • How are the different conflicts portrayed in the novel, and how do they connect with you?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
Characterization, Motifs, Symbolism • Important Events and People: Laurens Van der Post, Apartheid, Bushmen • Definitions: Conflict, Them, Implicit, Explicit, External, Internal || • Prove a recurring conflict in the book by using text references. •Make meaning of the theme or themes. • Adapt a theme from the book to the real world (now). • Analyze characters internal and external conflict. • Consider conflicts of the characters and make connections. • Recognize conflict and theme and how they are important to the development of characters ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * • Vocabulary: Conflict, Themes,


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**