Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Theme and The Old Man and the Sea Name: Daniella Miller
Content Area: English Grade Level: 9 & 10
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development
over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined
by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:
Why is theme important in literature?
Are there universal themes in literature that concern all cultures and societies?
Choosing a theme from the novel, how does this theme relate to society today?
Unit Summary:
By the end of this unit students will be able to identify, discuss, and interpret a
theme within a novel.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:
5 minute free-write Timeline Poster
Questioning Essay
Conferences
 Quiz (2)

Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Student Learning Acceptable Lesson Activities:
Objective: Evidence
As a group, (Assessments): Students will be separated into smaller groups and they
students will Group will discuss the importance of themes in literature.
engage in a participati Students will then come together as a class and discuss
discussion on their thoughts and ideas about theme. Students will then
about why In-Class individually perform a 5 minute free-write which will be
theme is writing turned in.
important in exercise
literature.

Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)

Student Learning Acceptable Lesson Activities:
Objective: Evidence: Students will receive a handout that they must fill out
Students will Worksheet / completely and turn in. Students will then create a poster
construct a list Handout that illustrates 3 themes found within the novel.
of three themes Poster
within the novel
and cite a
specific
instance for
each of those
themes.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Acceptable Lesson Activities:
Objective: Evidence: Students will identify five passages from within The Old
Students will Worksheet / Man and the Sea and cite these passages properly.
identify themes Handout Students will then write a response to each of the five
within a novel, passages they have chosen.
and write
comprehensivel
y and
effectively on
those themes.

Unit Resources:
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Poster
Lesson 2 Handout
Lesson 3 Handout
In Class Writing Exercise
Owl Purdue

Useful Websites:
https://youtu.be/p4qME64SkxM