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Key Ideas And Guidelines: Common Core State Standards

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Common Core State Standards
CC.6.R.L.1: Key Ideas and Details: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CC.6.R.I.3: Key Ideas and Details: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
CC.6.SL.2: Comprehension and Collaboration: Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
Essential Questions
1. What are the common characteristics of a hero?
2. What is the role of a hero in our culture?
Essential Understandings
1. Heroes do extraordinary things, real or fiction, while exhibiting distinguished characteristics.
Summary of Unit
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We will begin with the first lesson introducing the students to the common characteristics of heroes and how they relate to a heroes story. Throughout the unit, students will be building on this knowledge and continually providing evidence of the learning of the content. Mid way through the unit, we will introduce fiction and nonfiction heroes that are familiar to our American culture. Using their knowledge of heroes’ characteristics and story elements, students will be able to identify fiction and nonfiction heroes throughout the rest of the themed

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