The Outsiders

          This unit will be used with a seventh grade Title One reading class.  The unit has 10 lessons, but will take more than ten days.  A lesson may last two days depending on the time required by my students to complete the tasks they need to cover. 

I work with a block schedule so we break up our hour and a half block into different activities.  This unit contains 10 lessons and four learning centers.  The learning centers allow for group interaction and the groups are given class time to work on these.  This is a favorite part of the unit for students.  We may do part of a lesson and the rest of the time work on learning centers, what ever fits the needs of my students that day.  Some days are dedicated to total learning center time.

Each day that the students read from the book they will work on a study guide.  This study guide includes questions about the story to help with comprehension.  This study guide also includes vocabulary that the students will be tested on.

Another part of the unit includes journal writing.  The teacher has chosen journal topics that the students will work on to help increase their writing skills.

The students will also have a writing project to work on.  This will start later into the unit and again, they will be given time to work on this in class as another element of the unit.