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This Common Core resource includes 22 rigorous unit learning tasks for O. Henry’s short story, "The Gift of the Magi." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external doc

This Common Core resource includes 30 rigorous unit learning tasks for Elie Wiesel’s "Night." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents and informational

The House on Mango Street unit features 8 learning tasks and 1 unit culminating performance task focused on several key reading literary skills. Students will analyze how complex characters are revealed in the text and discuss how the themes are developed and symbols are utilized. In the House on Mango Street learning tasks, students also will analyze the figurative and connotative meanings of selected lines from the text and explore how the create coherence within the selection. Students wil