Week 1

Week 2

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1. Events that
caused the Great
Depression.

2. Characteristics of
the Great
Depression.

3. Life during the

Great Depression.
Compared to now.

4. Life and
characters during
the Great
Depression.

Video, timeline,
Dorthea Lange
photos

6-fold notes for group Dialogue activity

discussion

5. Tying in what we
know about the
Great Depression
to the novels
characters.

Journal, pretest and

Eggshell activity

Begin reading

CCSS RL.7.9
CCSS RL.8.9

CCSS RL.8.1.a & b

CCSS RL.7.1.a & b

CCSS SL.8.1.c
CCSS SL.7.2.c

CCSS W.8.3.a
CCSS W.7.3.a

CCSS RL.8.3 & 4

CCSS RL.7.3 & 4

6. Setting of the
novel compared to
the Great
Depression.
Relationship
between the two
main characters.

6. Setting of the
novel compared to
the Great
Depression.
Relationship
between the two
main characters.

7. Inference
questions, context
clues, and literary
devices in the novel.

7. Inference
questions, context
clues, and literary
devices in the novel.

Study Guide

Study Guide

8. Getting to know
the characters in
the novel
individually and
proving our
knowledge about
them with textual
evidence.

Study Guide

Study Guide

CCSS SL.8.1.b
CCSS SL.7.1.b

CCSS SL.8.1.b
CCSS SL.7.1.b

Character I.D.s
CCSS L.7.4.a
CCSS RL.8.4a

CCSS L.7.4.a & d

CCSS RL.8.4.a & d

CCSS L.8.5.b

Week 3

9. How the film

version aids our
understanding of
the novel.
Comparing and
contrasting the film
and the written text.

Film

Week 4

10. Clothing as
signifier of (labor)
status. Dissecting
vocabulary and
literary devices.

Vocabulary and
Literary Device
packets, Study Guide

11. Racial injustices

based on status.

12. Male and female

roles in the 1930s.

Vocabulary and
Literary Device
packets, Study
Guide

Study Guide

CCSS L.8.4.c
CCSS L.8.5.a & b
CCSS L.7.4.c
CCSS L.7.5.a

CCSS SL.8.1.d
CCSS SL.7.1.d

CCSS L.8.5.b
CCSS L.7.5.c

CCSS RL.8.9
CCSS RL.7.7

CCSS L.8.4.c
CCSS L.8.5.a & b
CCSS L.7.4.c
CCSS L.7.5.a

14. Tracking and

predicting
foreshadowing
throughout the
novel thus far.

15. Character
X
portrayal in the film;
how they compare
and contrast with the
novel.

Literary Device
Character I.D.
Packet, Study Guide packet, Vocabulary
packet, Study Guide
CCSS L.8.4

CCSS RL.8.9
CCSS RL.7.7

13. Literary devices

used to further
understanding.

Literary Device
Packet, Study
Guide

Week 5

Week 6

16. Quicker
comprehension;
summarizing and
synthesizing.

17. Quicker
comprehension;
summarizing and
synthesizing.

18. Spectrum
Debate. Whole-class
discussion of mercy
killing a dog in the
novel.

19. Motives:
Dreams, behaviors,
and their outcomes

Literary Device
packet, Study Guide

Literary Device
packet, Study Guide

CCSS RL.7.2
CCSS RL.7.4
CCSS RL.8.2
CCSS RL.8.4

CCSS RL.7.2
CCSS RL.7.4
CCSS RL.8.2
CCSS RL.8.4

CCSS SL.7.1.b, c, d
CCSS SL.8.1.b, c, d

CCSS RL.7.3
CCSS RL.8.3

20. Motives: Fights,

behavioral
outcomes, and
consequences.

21. Judgment,
consequences, moral
obligation, and
responsibility

22. Pulling it all

together.

24. Post Test and

rubrics for next
weeks mini project.

Literary Device
packet, Character
I.D.s, Study Guide

Literary Device
packet, Vocabulary
packet, Study Guide

23. Spectrum
Debate. Whole-class
discussion of mercy
killing one of the
main characters,
and comparing this
mercy killing to
the previous one.

CCSS RL.7.1
CCSS RL.8.1

CCSS RL.7.9
CCSS RL.8.9

CCSS SL.7.1.b, c, d
CCSS SL.8.1.b, c, d

CCSS RL.7.4
CCSS RL.8.4

Vocabulary packet,
Study Guide

Film

CCSS RL.7.7
CCSS RL.8.7

Rubrics

Week 7

25. Project

26. Project

27. Project

28. Project