Unit Plan Calendar

Aaron Nichols
Unit Calendar
Pam Coke
Preston follows a block schedule, so I have outlined this calendar accordingly. I will see
students for three days one week, two days the next week.
Day of Unit Daily Practices Day’s Activities Homework
Week 1: Abraham
Introduction Lincoln Self-
to the Myth Made Article:
of the Self- This is the
Made man. homework to
set up the
American
Myth unit.
Day 1, week -First five minutes: -Minutes 1-5: Asking O.O.T.D. pages
1 Asking students/discussing with them if 1-21
students/discussing with they have any needs, going
them if they have any deeper, finding out ways that T.H.U.G. pages
needs, going deeper, their peers or the teacher (Mr. 1-42
finding out ways that Nichols) can help
their peers or the teacher T.S.I.A.A.S.
(Mr. Nichols) can help -Minutes 6-30: Think/Pair/Share pages 1-34
and discuss the concepts in the
-Vocab from our class assigned reading for this class.
novels, activity led by a Discussion question: Why did
student. Vocabulary will Abraham Lincoln work so hard
happen in book club to make sure he was seen as
groups and students will “self-made?”
alternate leading.
-Minutes 61-70: Vocab from our
The Sun Is Also A Star class novels, activity led by a
Vocabulary student. Vocabulary will happen
in book club groups and
The Hate U Give students will alternate leading.
Vocabulary
The Sun Is Also A Star
Out of The Dust Vocabulary
Vocabulary
The Hate U Give Vocabulary

-Exit ticket to assess
student understanding. -Minutes 71-85: Silent work
time/reading time for the book
students have chosen.
-Last five minutes: Exit ticket to

assess student understanding.
Day 2, week -First five minutes: -First five minutes: Asking O.O.T.D. pages
finding out ways that Nichols) can help.
(Mr. Nichols) can help. -Minutes 6-30: Think/Pair/Share pages 35-75
-Vocab from our class assigned reading for this class. Whole Class:
novels, activity led by a Students will discuss their latest Art of
student. Vocabulary will readings with each other in their Manliness
happen in book club respective book clubs. Self-Made
groups and students will Man
alternate leading. THUG Discussion Question:
Chapter 2, page 20 shows Starr
The Sun Is Also A Star flashing back to two talks her
Vocabulary parents had with her when she
was young, about what
The Hate U Give precautions to take when
Vocabulary encountering a police officer.
Have you had a similar
Out of The Dust conversation about what to do
Vocabulary when stopped by the police?
-Exit ticket to assess TSIAAS discussion question:

student understanding.
Does Natasha deserve to “go
home?” Why or why not?
OOTD discussion Question:
What are the most interesting

facts you learned about the
setting, life in the 1930s? What
have you learned about life in
this time that you didn’t know
before?

class novels, activity led by a
student. Vocabulary will happen
students will alternate leading.

Vocabulary
-Minutes 41-70:
Introduction and Discussion of

our final assignment:
-Minutes 71-85: Silent work

-Exit ticket to assess student

understanding.
-Vocab from our class assigned reading for this class. Think
novels, activity led by a Students will discuss their latest about/start
student. Vocabulary will readings with each other in their working on
happen in book club final project.
groups and students will respective book clubs.
alternate leading. Discussion Questions:
The Sun Is Also A Star THUG discussion question:

Vocabulary
Angie Thomas uses silence and
The Hate U Give voice as repeated themes
Vocabulary throughout the book. Find
places in the book where silence
Out of The Dust or voice and speech are
Vocabulary emphasized, and talk about the
author’s possible intentions for
-Exit ticket to assess emphasizing these motifs.
TSIAAS discussion question:
Think about the ways in which

the random connections we
make determine our futures.
Have there been coincidences or
random connections in your life
that you think have been
determined by fate or the
universe?
OOTD discussion question:
What does it take to be able to

forgive? How does Billie Jo
show that she has forgiven her
father and herself? Does she
forgive him at all?


Vocabulary

-Minutes 41-80/85
Instructor shows video and

models good questioning.
Students are asked to get into
their book club groups. Each
pair of students will receive one
infographic: Asking Good
Questions Infographic
In the remaining class time,

students will be asked to come
up with their own potential
“good questions.” When we
share out as a class, we will
assess as a class along the
following matrix:
1) Is the question thought-

provoking?
2) Does it make me want to

keep talking?
-If time: Silent work


Exit ticket question: Why is it
important to be able to ask
good questions?
Week Two:
needs, going deeper, 136-181
finding out ways that their peers or the teacher (Mr.
their peers or the teacher Nichols) can help T.S.I.A.A.S.
(Mr. Nichols) can help. pages
-Minutes 6-30: View ads, 117-152
-Vocab from our class Think/Pair/Share and discuss the
novels, activity led by a concepts presented. After Questions and
student. Vocabulary will viewing the Ads, teacher will Choice of
happen in book club foster group discussions, and Family Member
groups and students will then move around and make Due
alternate leading. sure that each table is
discussing.
Vocabulary -Minutes 31-60: Book club
groups and subsequent
The Hate U Give discussion:
Vocabulary
THUG discussion question:
Out of The Dust
Vocabulary At the police station after Starr
details the events leading up to
-Exit ticket to assess the shooting, the detective shifts
student understanding. her focus to Khalil’s past. Why?
What do you think the detective
is trying to do?
Coincidence and fate play big

roles in The Sun Is Also a Star.
In what ways did fate play a role
in the lives of Natasha and
Daniel? What leads up to their
“fated” meeting?
Why is music so important to

Billie Jo? Why does her mother
not want her to pursue music?
Why does her mother eventually
say that she can?


Vocabulary


assess student understanding
-Vocab from our class assigned reading for this class. Work on final
novels, activity led by a Students will discuss their latest project
student. Vocabulary will readings with each other in their
happen in book club respective book clubs.
groups and students will
alternate leading. -Minutes 31-40: Vocab from our
The Sun Is Also A Star student. Vocabulary will happen
Vocabulary in book club groups and
The Hate U Give The Sun Is Also A Star
Vocabulary Vocabulary
Out of The Dust The Hate U Give Vocabulary

Vocabulary
-Minutes 41-70:
-Exit ticket to assess Introduction and Discussion of
student understanding. our final assignment:


understanding.
-Vocab from our class assigned reading for this class. Work on final
novels, activity led by a Students will discuss their latest project
student. Vocabulary will readings with each other in their
happen in book club respective book clubs.
alternate leading. THUG discussion question:
The Sun Is Also A Star How do you think Starr would

Vocabulary define family? What about
Seven? How do you define it?
The Hate U Give
Vocabulary
TSAAS discussion question:
Out of The Dust
Vocabulary Natasha’s father, Samuel
Kingsley, made a harmful
-Exit ticket to assess decision, leading to his family’s
student understanding. deportation. Do you think the
entire family should have been
included in this decision? Why
or why not?
On page 197, we see Billy Jo

running away on a train. Why
does she choose to do this? Do
you think this was the right
choice?
-Minutes 31-60: Code-

Switching mini-lesson.


Vocabulary


Question: Why is it important
to be culturally accepting?
Week three:
(Mr. Nichols) can help. -Minutes 6-30: Book club pages 218-253
groups. Students will discuss the
-Vocab from our class following questions: Work on final
novels, activity led by a project
student. Vocabulary will
happen in book club THUG discussion question:
groups and students will Chris and Starr have a
alternate leading. breakthrough in their
relationship—Starr admits to
The Sun Is Also A Star him that she was in the car with
Vocabulary Khalil and shares the memories
of Natasha’s murder (Chapter
The Hate U Give 17, pp. 298–302). Discuss why
Vocabulary Starr’s admission and releasing
of this burden to Chris is
Out of The Dust important.
Vocabulary
-Exit Ticket to assess
student understanding. Daniel’s and Natasha’s parents
are chasing the American
Dream. What is the American
Dream from their perspective?
Do any of the characters achieve
it? Is it possible to achieve it?
Why did the author choose to

have this story told by a child?
How would the story be
different if an adult told it?


Vocabulary
Minutes 41-70:
Why we need to Stop Sharing
American Dream Success
Stories
We will watch the above video
as a class. In book club groups,
students will be asked:
Why does the speaker in this

video want us to stop sharing
American Dream stories?
Do we believe it’s someone

else’s fault when they don’t
succeed?
If so, why?
Students will be asked to write

down answers to these questions
after discussing as a group. We
will discuss as a whole class,
asking the above questions one
at a time and hearing from each
group.
Minutes 71-85: Work time for

final project or to catch up on
reading.

understanding. Exit ticket
question: What is your personal
“American Dream?”
(Mr. Nichols) can help. pages 254-284
-Vocab from our class -Minutes 6-30: Book club Work on final
novels, activity led by a groups. Students will discuss the project
student. Vocabulary will following questions:
happen in book club
groups and students will THUG discussion question:
alternate leading.
How and why does the
The Sun Is Also A Star neighborhood react to the grand
Vocabulary jury’s decision? How does Starr
use her voice as a weapon, and
The Hate U Give why does she feel that it is
Vocabulary important that she does?
Out of The Dust
Vocabulary
-Exit ticket to assess How does The Sun Is Also a

student understanding. Star address current issues that
we are facing today? Why is it
important to be culturally
accepting?
On page 200, Billy Jo meets a

strange man on the train. Why is
their meeting important? What
does it teach her?


Vocabulary
Minutes 41-70: Students will

read in their respective book
club groups. We are going to
split it up like this: Mr. Nichols
will take part one of the article,
T.H.U.G. group will take part
two, TSIAAS group will take
part three, and OOTD group
will take part four. All of us will
read part five.
We will be given five minutes to

read, then ten minutes to discuss
the following questions:
1) Why are the dreams we’re

reading about so different?
2) Does everyone want to

become rich and famous?
3) What do you want out of

your American life?
We are going to be making

posters in our respective groups,
putting them on the walls closest
to us, and then doing a gallery
walk.

understanding. Exit ticket
question: What do I know about
the American dream that I didn’t
know before?
groups. Students will discuss the
-Vocab from our class following questions: (Extra time Work on final
novels, activity led by a has been added because during project
student. Vocabulary will the book clubs, Mr. Nichols is
happen in book club going to go around and
groups and students will conference with each student,
alternate leading. asking them to show him their
progress on the final project.
Vocabulary THUG discussion question:
The Hate U Give Starr pledges to “never be quiet”

Vocabulary on page 444. After reading this
book, do you have any ideas
Out of The Dust how can you use your voice?
Vocabulary
TSIAAS Discussion question:
Daniel believed in fate. Natasha
did not. Are you more like
Daniel or Natasha? Discuss, and
think of an example where
you’re like Daniel or Natasha.
On pages 216-217, Billy Jo talks

about wanting to get the dust out
of the piano, but that she is not
quite ready to do so. Why is she
not quite ready?


Vocabulary
Minutes 61-85: Work/Reading

time for anyone who needs it, to
work on the books or the final
project.

understanding.
Week Four:
needs, going deeper, their peers or the teacher (Mr. 403-end
groups:
-Vocab from our class Final project
novels, activity led by a In our book clubs today, we will should be done
student. Vocabulary will be doing a summative
happen in book club discussion/writeup:
alternate leading. Summative Question: In the
pledge of allegiance, that we
The Sun Is Also A Star say every day, the last line is
Vocabulary “With liberty and justice for
all.” Did you see liberty and
The Hate U Give justice for the characters in
Vocabulary your books? Why or why not?
Out of The Dust
Students will write out (as a
Vocabulary
group) where in their assigned
books that the characters were
or were not offered the same
freedoms and access to justice
that either:
1) They themselves experience

in real life.
2) Other characters in the book

are offered.
Example: How many of you
have ever had to have “the talk”
with your parents about what to
do if you’re stopped by a police
officer?


Vocabulary
Minutes 71-85: Time to read or

work on final project if needed.
Students should be finished with
books and final project next
class period.

understanding.
Week Five:
Final Project
Due
Day 11, -First five minutes: -First five minutes: Asking Turn in Final
Week Five: Asking students/discussing with them if Project
them if they have any deeper, finding out ways that
needs, going deeper, their peers or the teacher (Mr.
finding out ways that Nichols) can help. (Tami Wolff
their peers or the teacher does “read-a-latte” which means
(Mr. Nichols) can help. that one day a school year, she
makes her students hot
-Vocab from our class chocolate with her barista
novels, activity led by a experience, and the students
student. Vocabulary will drink it as they present their
happen in book club final reading portfolios. I would
groups and students will like to do something similar
alternate leading. here, using my experience as a
bartender. I have still not figured
The Sun Is Also A Star out what, but some sort of
Vocabulary delicious mocktail should
suffice).
The Hate U Give
Vocabulary -The rest of the class will be
devoted to the presentations of
Out of The Dust the final projects. There are 7
Vocabulary students in each group, each will
be asked to present for ten
-Exit ticket to assess minutes, and each will be asked
student understanding. to observe and grade at least
twice. Students will be asked to
grade each other off the
following rubric:

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Day of Unit Daily Practices Day’s Activities Homework

Out of The Dust Vocabulary

-Last five minutes: Exit ticket to

-Exit ticket to assess TSIAAS discussion question:

OOTD discussion Question:

What are the most interesting

-Minutes 31-40: Vocab from our

The Sun Is Also A Star

The Hate U Give Vocabulary

Out of The Dust Vocabulary

Introduction and Discussion of

-Minutes 71-85: Silent work

-Exit ticket to assess student

The Sun Is Also A Star THUG discussion question:

Think about the ways in which

OOTD discussion question:

What does it take to be able to

-Minutes 31-40: Vocab from our

The Sun Is Also A Star

The Hate U Give Vocabulary

Instructor shows video and

In the remaining class time,

1) Is the question thought-

2) Does it make me want to

-If time: Silent work

-Last five minutes: Exit ticket to

TSIAAS discussion question:

Coincidence and fate play big

OOTD discussion question:

Why is music so important to

-Minutes 61-70: Vocab from our

The Sun Is Also A Star

The Hate U Give Vocabulary

Out of The Dust Vocabulary

-Minutes 71-85: Silent work

-Last five minutes: Exit ticket to

Out of The Dust The Hate U Give Vocabulary

-Minutes 71-85: Silent work

-Exit ticket to assess student

The Sun Is Also A Star How do you think Starr would

OOTD discussion question:

On page 197, we see Billy Jo

-Minutes 31-60: Code-

-Minutes 61-70: Vocab from our

The Sun Is Also A Star

The Hate U Give Vocabulary

Out of The Dust Vocabulary

-Minutes 71-85: Silent work

-Last five minutes: Exit ticket to

OOTD discussion question:

Why did the author choose to

-Minutes 31-40: Vocab from our

The Sun Is Also A Star

The Hate U Give Vocabulary

Out of The Dust Vocabulary

Why does the speaker in this

Do we believe it’s someone

Students will be asked to write

Minutes 71-85: Work time for

-Exit ticket to assess student

-Exit ticket to assess How does The Sun Is Also a

OOTD discussion question: