ELA FULL YEAR CURRICULUM: ARGUMENTATIVE INFORMATIVE NARRATIVE LITERARY ANALYSIS

Your ELA | English Language Arts Middle School Google Classroom is planned, prepped, stocked and ready to share for the entire YEAR! Each digital unit includes: highly engaging CCSS literacy and writing resources, CCSS standards, digital lesson plans, weekly & monthly calendar templates, exit ticket, and even announcements for your stream!

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★ This resource is designed to look like GC so that you can easily copy and paste everything in order for a perfectly sequenced, skill-building sequence. It can also work with Schoology, Canvas, or ANY LMS that supports Google Slides.

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★ AUG. OR SEPT. GOOGLE UNIT 1- GET ORGANIZED & INTRO TO LITERARY ELEMENT

Week 1: Back To School/Getting Organized/Intro to Literary Elements

• Digital Game: Would You Rather? Back To School Edition
• Teacher Tracker/Planner: Track EVERYTHING in one place
• Student Tracker/Agenda/Password Keeper: Organize their whole year
• Digital Lesson Plan Templates
• CCSS Standards
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

Week 2: Literary Elements Study: PLOT

• Plot & Summary Workshop
• Pixar Short Film Plot Workshop: Glued (adorable film about a boy addicted to video games.)
• Answer keys
• CCSS Standards
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

Week 3: Literary Elements Study: CHARACTERS & DIALOGUE

• Characters and Dialogue Workshop
• Pixar Short Film Characterization Workshop: Carl & Ellie From UP!
• Answer keys
• CCSS Standards
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

Week 4: Literary Elements Study: THEME

• Theme, Conflict, & Plot Twist Workshop: Movie Guide
• Pixar Short Film Theme Workshop: The Present
• FINAL ASSESSMENT: Literary Elements
• Answer keys
• CCSS Standards
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

★ OCTOBER GOOGLE UNIT 2- NARRATIVE WRITING AND LITERARY ANALYSIS

✔ Week 5: NARRATIVE WRITING

• Narrative Writing Workshop
• Fall Writing Prompts RACE Strategy
• Digital Lesson Plan Templates
• CCSS Standards
• Answer Keys
• Exit Ticket
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

✔ Week 6-7: LITERARY ANALYSIS

• Literary Analysis Thesis Statement Workshop
• Literary Analysis Workshop
• Answer keys
• CCSS Standards
• Exit Ticket
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

✔ Week 8: LITERARY ELEMENT REVIEW

• Figurative Language Workshop
• Pixar Short Film Workshop: Alma
• Answer keys
• CCSS Standards
• Exit Ticket
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

★ NOVEMBER GOOGLE UNIT 3- BEGINNING WRITING & COMPLETE SENTENCES

✔ Week 9: COMPLETE SENTENCES AND PROVIDING EVIDENCE

• Fragments, Run-Ons, Comma Splices Workshop
• Providing Evidence Workshop
• Digital Lesson Plan Templates
• CCSS Standards
• Answer Keys
• Exit Ticket
• Assessment: Google Quizzes
• Weekly & Monthly Lesson Plan Templates
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

✔ Week 10: WRITING CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES

• RACE Writing Workshop
• November Writing Prompts in A Virtual Classroom
• Answer keys
• CCSS Standards
• Exit Ticket
• Weekly & Monthly Lesson Plan Templates
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

✔ Week 11-12: INFORMATIONAL WRITING (light) & LITERARY REVIEW

• Short Film THANKSGIVING Workshop: SALT -Text Structures and Lit. Review
• Friendsgiving Virtual Dinner Party- Planning, Decorating, & Informational Writing
• Answer keys
• CCSS Standards
• Exit Ticket
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

★ DECEMBER GOOGLE UNIT 4- LITERARY ANALYSIS WITH A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND HEY DEER!

✔ Week 13: SHORT FILM AND WRITTEN RESPONSE

• Pixar Short Film: Hey Deer! Analyze plot development and write a narrative
• December Writing Prompts: Why Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol and Gingerbread Lane (videos included).
• CCSS Standards
• Answer Keys
• Exit Ticket
• Weekly & Monthly Lesson Plan Templates
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

✔ Week 14-15: LITERARY ANALYSIS AND GREETING CARD ACTIVITY

• Literary Analysis Digital Workshop: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Greeting Card Activity: Write formal greetings and address an envelope (Students can share with friends and family via email if it is allowable.)
• CCSS Standards
• Exit Ticket
• Weekly & Monthly Lesson Plan Templates
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

Rationale: The sequence of these units was designed to weave the study of literary (fiction) and informational text throughout the school year to help students retain concepts, gradually build skills and knowledge, and to help students understand the difference between these types of literature. 

In the spirit of the season, a free gift, greeting cards activity, has been added to this unit! This greeting card activity allows students to practice real-world conventional writing in a fun, light manner. If it is allowable, they can even share their personalized cards with family and friends: digitally or printed. 

★ JANUARY GOOGLE UNIT 5- ANALYZING ARGUMENTATIVE SAMPLES AND THESIS STATEMENT

✔ Week 16: COMPLETE SENTENCES AND PROVIDING EVIDENCE

• Analyze Argumentative Essay Samples: Digital Highlighting Activity
• Thesis Statement Workshop: with self-checking activities
• Digital Lesson Plan Templates
• CCSS Standards
• Answer Keys
• Exit Ticket
• Weekly & Monthly Lesson Plan Templates
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

✔ Week 17-19: WRITING AN ARGUMENTATIV ESSAY

• Argumentative Essay Workshop: w videos and tutorials (everything you need)
• MLA Formatting Workshop: FREE and optional.
• Answer keys
• CCSS Standards
• Exit Ticket
• Weekly & Monthly Lesson Plan Templates
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

★ FEBRUARY GOOGLE UNIT 6- INFORMATIVE WRITING AND ELA TEST PREP

✔ Week 20-23: SHORT FILM AND WRITTEN RESPONSE

• Thesis statement writing workshop for informative writing
• Informative essay workshop
• Short Film Literary Review: Bear With Me (Valentine's Day Themed)
• FREE GIFT! Valentine's Day Greeting Card Writing Activity
• CCSS Standards
• Answer Keys
• Exit Ticket
• Weekly & Monthly Lesson Plan Templates
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

Rationale: The informative writing workshop included in this unit does not teach formulaic writing. Formulas cause students to write awkwardly as they try to fill in the pieces. Rather, it teaches a framework that helps students naturally progress through a typical essay structure. Within the framework, students will be encouraged think freely and imaginatively. They will learn to write clearly and concisely to engage the reader, and to center their writing around the controlling idea of the thesis statement.

★ MARCH GOOGLE UNIT 7- RESEARCH WRITING AND ELA TEST PREP

✔ Week 24-27: LAST MINUTE TEST PREP & MLA WORKSHOP (optional)

• Last minute ELA test prep
• MLA 8th Edition Workshop (FREE & optional)
• March Writing Prompts (1 for St. Patrick's Day)
• Research Essay Workshop: Included The Famous Elevator Experiment
• For The Birds Literary Review: Focused on social conformity to correlate with the research project.
• CCSS Standards
• Answer Keys
• Exit Ticket
• Weekly & Monthly Lesson Plan Templates
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

Rationale: This unit allows students to explore human tendencies to follow the crowd. It is a social/emotional activity that not only teaches students how to write a research paper and perform an experiment, but also helps them learn to cope with the issues of bullying and emotional abuse. 

The short film workshop, For The Birds, was chosen to accompany this research project because the birds in the film are socially conforming. They are picking on a bird that looks different because his feathers are strange. As a result, they fall from the telephone line and lose all of their own feather. This workshop brings some light humor to a serious topic. 

★GOOGLE UNIT 8- END OF THE YEAR REVIEW

• End Of Year Writing Review For the 4 Major Writing Tasks

★ 4 WRITING REVIEW WORKSHOPS

✔ Narrative

✔ Argumentative

✔ Informative

✔ Literary Analysis

• TED Talk: How Education Helped Rewrite My Life
• April Writing Prompts with RACE Strategy: Easter and Bugs Bunny
• Short Film Workshop: The First Day Of Spring
• CCSS Standards
• Answer Keys
• Exit Ticket
• Weekly & Monthly Lesson Plan Templates
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

★GOOGLE UNIT 9- END OF THE YEAR REVIEW

• End Of Year Friendly Letter Writing Activity
• Digital Scrapbook/Memory Book
• May Writing Prompts with RACE Strategy
• Story Chat: Students chat social media style
• Plan a Pizza Party (FREE GIFT)
• CCSS Standards
• Answer Keys
• Exit Ticket
• Weekly & Monthly Lesson Plan Templates
• Digital Google Classroom Template With Resource Links
• Announcement For Your Google Classroom Stream (copy & paste)

Rationale:

It can be extremely difficult to keep students engaged during the last month of school. Therefore, this unit was designed for light learning, heavy fun, and for rewarding students for all of their hard work throughout the year. I hope your students enjoy this month as much as my students do!