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Designed by a veteran Special Education and ELA teacher. 

INCLUDES ALL LESSON PLANS ALIGNED WITH ELA CCS GRADES 9-12! NO PLANNING FOR TEN WEEKS!

The first eight weeks of this unit include detailed daily lesson plans for Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven. The last two weeks include an argumentative essay unit based on the controversial film The Secret, which is based on the law of attraction.

***You will download this unit in PDF format. I realize some teachers prefer Google Docs, so I have also included a link within the PDF to the unit in Google Doc format. Please note, for copyright protection, the Google Doc version of the unit is “view only.” However, I have offered the student resources and assignments (a separate 60 page doc) in an editable doc, so students can complete and submit all assignments conveniently within Google Docs.

200 Pages of Resources:
Few novels are as engaging–especially to reluctant readers–as The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.

Students find the major themes in this novel relevant in their own lives, and in my 12 years of teaching, I have yet to have a student who hasn’t enjoyed and learned from this text.

WHAT’S INCLUDED?
♥ In this bundle you will receive an eight week unit for The Five People you Meet in Heaven + a two week argumentative essay unit:

CONTENTS: 8-Week Novel Unit

• Anticipation guide (5 group discussion prompts)
• Reading Comprehension Assessments for Each of the Five Sections of the Novel
• Final Exam/ Comprehensive Comprehension Questions (20 questions)
• Three essay prompts with three essay structure guides with sentences stems and sample introductions and conclusions
• 30 DOL (daily oral language) paragraphs + Teacher Key + clause handout
• Three creative project choices
• Five “section summary” writing prompts
• Essay rubric
• Summary rubric
• Literary term guide (blank: students must complete after reading novel)
  + Teacher key
• Reading comprehension strategies handout
• FORTY daily lesson plans for 45 minute class periods with CC standards grades 9-12 included on each plan

CONTENTS: 2-Week Argumentative Essay Unit

• 10 detailed daily lesson plans for 70 minute class periods + ELA CCSS Standards for grades 9-12
• Film prompt: Docudrama style film: The Secret (available on Amazon Prime)
  ~ Film summary
  ~ Film comprehension questions (27)
  ~ Argumentative essay structure guide
  ~ Exemplar argumentative essay
  ~ Argumentative essay rubric

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