Section 5: Overview

Culminating Task

We will blend genres to convey the importance, critical messages, legitimacy and central values of communities we belong to.

• Lesson 1:

  We will practice gathering and organizing evidence by reading an excerpt from Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory,” and determining which details are most central to supporting her central idea.

• Lesson 2:

  We will begin planning for the Culminating Task.

• Lesson 3:

  We will practice using techniques to write about a memory.

• Lesson 4:

  We will begin writing the body paragraphs for the Culminating Task.

• Lesson 5:

  We will determine the overall message of our writing and will draft an introduction and conclusion to our Culminating Task.

• Lesson 6:

  We will make our final revisions in order to complete the Culminating Task.

• Lesson 7:

  We will finish the unit by engaging in a whole-class discussion about community. We will also discuss Culminating Task topics that relate to the unit and identify possible pathways to explore for the Application Unit.

• Lesson 8:

  In a culminating activity, we share the knowledge we have gained and the connections we have made by reading our independent reading texts.