This CROSS-CURRICULAR three week unit guides students step-by-step through the writing process.

It includes:

• A daily vocabulary study
• Multiple mentor texts
• Success Criteria
• Brainstorming Frameworks
• Worksheets
• Writing prompts

This unit covers expectations in the following areas of the Canadian curriculum:

• Social Studies/History - Exploring the perspectives of different people, groups and communities, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities, on some significant events and issues that affected Canada and people in Canada.
• Drama - Applying the creative process to the development of drama works, to communicate feelings, ideas, and multiple perspectives.
• Writing - generating, gathering, and organizing ideas and information to write for
  an intended purpose and audience. Drafting and revising writing.

Warm-ups are used to teach vocabulary and grammar (verbs, nouns, pronouns, synonyms, and ellipses). NO PREP REQUIRED!

In the end, students will independently produce a well-written historical fiction script for you to assess.

Lesson 1 - Modelled Writing

Lesson 2 - Developing Success Criteria

- Using Success Criteria on mentor texts (modelled and independent tasks)

Lesson 3 - Introduction to Script Brainstorming Framework

- Deconstructing mentor texts (Home Children, Louis Riel) and inputting ideas
into the framework (modelled and guided tasks)

Lesson 4 - Shared Writing - Brainstorming

- Filling in brainstorming framework as a class

Lesson 5 - Shared Writing

- Writing a script as a class

- Writing prompt

Lesson 6 - Guided Writing - Topic Selection

- Four topics with writing prompts to choose from

• First Nations and the Indian Act
• Residential Schools
• Chinese Immigration and the Canadian Pacific Railway
• The Inuit

Lesson 7 - Guided Writing - Brainstorming

- Students fill in brainstorming framework

Lesson 8 - Guided Writing

- Students write their own script

Lesson 9 - Peer Evaluation/Revision

- Students swap scripts and use Success Criteria to provide feedback

- Students make revisions and hand-in a copy of their story to the teacher

Lesson 10 - Independent Writing/Summative Task

- Students use their knowledge to write a script completely independently

- Writing prompt given - Sir John A. MacDonald

- Assessment Rubric