🎯Students will be able to answer the essential question with detailed evidence from the texts they have read and examine their own lives to see how they have changed. 
🎯Students will increase their vocabulary through repeated exposure and use of a set of words.
🎯Students will improve their pre-writing and writing skills by practicing throughout the unit and writing a full-length essay which will demonstrate their understanding of the essential question by comparing how a character changed to how the student changed. 

AA in Child Development
BA in Language Development
TESOL Certification
Teaching Certification
20+ years in education and curriculum planning

Homework Offered
They will be some reading and writing tasks assigned as homework between classes.  These tasks should not take more than an hour each. Reading tasks will be a few pages long. Writing tasks will be paragraphs for the first couple of assignments and then working on the final essay. There are no full-length books in this unit. 
1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
📝Students will have some baseline assessment tests and writing tasks. 
📝There will be a vocabulary quiz.
📝There will be a grammar quiz.
📝There will be a discussion that will be graded according to a rubric.
📝There will be a final essay that will be graded according to a rubric. 
Grades Offered