MODEL UNIT FRAMEWORKS

**Revised by Ware County:July 31, 2014

GRADE / UNIT ONE / UNIT TWO / UNIT THREE / UNIT FOUR
PART ONE / PART TWO / PART ONE / PART TWO / PART ONE / PART TWO / PART ONE / PART TWO
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / NARRATIVE / NARRATIVE / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / OPINION / OPINION / NARR/INF/OP / NARR/INF/OP
K / Theme: Let’s Make Friends
Extended Text:Frog & Toad are Friends/ Frog and Toad Together, Arnold Lobel / Theme: Amazing Friendships
Extended Text:
Nubs The True Story of a Mutt, A Marine, and a Miracle, Brian Dennis
Winter’s Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again, Isabella Hatkoff / Theme: America and Me
Extended Text:Duck for President, Doreen Cronin
The Flag We Love, Pam Munoz Ryan… / Theme: America and Me
Extended Text:What is Gravity? Lisa Trumbauer / Theme: Leader by Day, Super Hero by Night
Extended Text:
What Makes Day and Night? Franklyn Branley
What the Sun Sees, What the Moon Sees, Nancy Tafuri
Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero… / Theme: Leader by Day, Super Hero by Night
Extended Text:
Meet George Washington, Patricia Pingry
The Story of Abraham Lincoln, Patricia Pingry
President’s Day Anne Rockwell / Theme:Watch Me Grow!
Extended Text: A House for Hermit Crab, Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
The Tiny Seed, Eric Carle / Theme:Growing and Changing
Extended Text:
See Me Grow, Penelope Arlon
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY/INF / LITERARY/INF
WRITE / NARRATIVE / NARRATIVE / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / OPINION / OPINION / NARR/INF/OP / NARR/INF/OP
1 / Basal Reader / Basal Reader / Theme:Inventing Fun
Extended Text:Freckle Juice, Judy Blume
Extended Text:
Lulu and the Brontosaurus, Judith Viorst / Theme:Inventing Our World
Extended Text:What’s the Big Idea Ben Franklin, J. Fritz
Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin, D. Adler
Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson, D. Adler / Theme:A High Opinion of Animals
Extended Text:Dog Heaven, Graham Salisbury / Theme:A High Opinion of Animals
Extended Text:Should We Get A Pet? Sylvia Lollis / Theme:Money, Money, Money
Extended Text:
Sophie the Zillionaire, Lara Bergen / Theme:Money, Money, Money
Extended Text:The Get Rich Quick Club, Dan Gutman
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / NARRATIVE / NARRATIVE / INFORMATIVE / INFORMATIVE / OPINION / OPINION / NARR/INFO / INFO/OPINION
2 / Theme: Game Time
Extended Text: Skinnybones, Barbara Park
Additional Resources as necessary (basal, leveled readers, etc.) / Theme: Game Time
Extended Text: Forces Make Things Move, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Additional Resources as necessary (basal, leveled readers, etc.) / Theme:Understanding My Space
Extended Text:Fudge-a-mania, Judy Blume
Additional Resources as necessary (basal, leveled readers, etc.) / Theme:Understanding my Space
Extended Text:Magic School Bus: Solar System, series
Additional Resources as necessary (basal, leveled readers, etc.) / Theme:Life Cycle Investigators
Extended Text:Gooney Bird on the Map, Lois Lowry
Additional Resources as necessary (basal, leveled readers, etc.) / Theme: Life Cycle Investigators
Extended Text:
Velma Gratch & the Way Cool Butterfly, Alan Madison
A Additional Resources as necessary (basal, leveled readers, etc.) / Theme:Growing and Changing
Extended Text:
Socks,Beverly Cleary
Additional Resources as necessary (basal, leveled readers, etc.) / Theme:Growing and Changing
Extended Text:
From Seed to Plant, Gail Gibbons
Additional Resources as necessary (basal, leveled readers, etc.)
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / OPINION / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / OPINION
3 / Theme: Courage and Character in the Making of America
Friendship Helps!
Extended Text: And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? Jean Fritz / Theme: Friendship Helps!
Extended Text:Because of Winn Dixie Kate DiCamillo / Theme:A Place to Call Home
Extended Text:Mr. Popper’s Penguin, Richard and Florence Atwater / Theme:A Hero in All of Us
Extended Text:Helen Keller, Margaret Davidson
READ / LITERARY/INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY
WRITE / INFORMATIONAL / OPINION / OPINION / INFORMATIONAL
4 / Theme: It’s Tough Being a Kid! and
The Sky’s the Limit - Courage and Innovation
Extended Text: Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary and Who is Neal Armstrong? Roberta Edwards / Theme: Responsibility
Extended Text:Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor / Theme:Is This for Real? The Amazing Events and Heroics that Gave Birth to the United States of America
Extended Text:George Washington’s Socks, Elvira Woodruff / Theme:Responsibility
Extended Text:One Well: The Story of Water on Earth, Rochelle Strauss
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / OPINION / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / OPINION
5 / Theme: Perspectives in Time
Extended Text: The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, Rodman Philbrick / Theme:Back to the Future
Extended Text:Abraham Lincoln: A Photographic Story of a Life, Tanya Lee Stone / Theme:The Journey to Knowledge
Extended Text:The Phantom Tollbooth, Norman Juster / Theme:Code Talking with Figurative Language
Extended Text: Navajo Code Talkers, Roy O. Hawthorne
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / ARGUMENTATIVE / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / ARGUMENTATIVE
6 / Theme: Seeing the Good in People
Extended Text: Hatchet, Gary Paulsen / Theme:Determination and Perseverance
Extended Text:Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank / Theme:Life, Love, and Learning
Extended Text:Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, by Jack Canfield / Theme:Fitting In
Extended Text:TheOutsiders, S.E. Hinton
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / ARGUMENTATIVE / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / ARGUMENTATIAVE
7 / Theme: What Science Fiction and Fantasy Can Teach Us About Ourselves
Extended Text: The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien or The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis / Theme:Burning Bridges - What History Has Taught Us
Extended Text:While the World Watched, Carolyn Maull McKinstry / Theme:Individuality
Extended Text:The Giver, Lois Lowry / Theme:Demonstrating Character
Extended Text:Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, by Ben Carson
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / ARGUMENTATAIVE / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / ARGUMENTATIVE
8 / Theme: Ever-Changing Adolescent Identities
Extended Text: Bad Boy-A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers / Theme:Dystopia
Extended Text:The House of Scorpion, Nancy Farmer / Theme: Georgia Authors
Extended Text:Various Short Stories and Poetry / Theme:Success – Defining It, Measuring It, and Setting and Achieving Goals
Extended Text: Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / ARGUMENTATAIVE / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / ARGUMENTATIVE
9 / Theme:Trials and Triumphs - the Hero’s Journey
Extended Text:The Odyssey, Homer
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:Defining Courage
Extended Text:The Education of Little Tree, Asa Carter
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:Paradoxes of Life and Language
Extended Text:Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:The Importance of Place in Life and Literature
Extended Text:Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janice Ray
*See Unit for Short Texts
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / ARGUMENTATIVE / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / ARGUMENTATIVE
10 / Theme:Moral Courage and Endurance
Extended Text:Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Patton
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:Human Rights Around the World - Symbols of Alienation
Extended Text:Night, Elie Wiesel
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:The Many Faces of the Hero
Extended Text:A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:Heroes, Villains, and Underdogs in Literature
Extended Text:The Blind Side, Michael Lewis
*See Unit for Short Texts
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / ARGUMENTATIVE / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / ARGUMENTATIVE
11 / Theme:Fear and Persecution in early American Literature
Extended Text:The Crucible, Arthur Miller
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:The Individual Vs. Society - Exploring New Frontiers
Extended Text:Walden, Henry David Thoreau
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:Reconstructing the American Dream
Extended Text:The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:Modern Times, Modern Issues
Extended Text:Freakonomics, Malcolm Gladwell
*See Unit for Short Texts
READ / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL / LITERARY / INFORMATIONAL
WRITE / ARGUMENTATIVE / INFORMATIONAL / INFORMATIONAL / ARGUMENTATIVE
12 / Theme:A Royal Mess - An Examination of the Lives, Scandals, and Impact of Britain’s Most Notorious and Noteworthy Kings and Queens
Extended Text:Macbeth, William Shakespeare
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:The World As a Stage - How Art Imitates Life, Bill Bryson
Extended Text:Shakespeare - The World as a Stage, Bill Bryson
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:Good and Evil in Literature
Extended Text:Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
*See Unit for Short Texts / Theme:The Language of our Lives
Extended Text:The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
*See Unit for Short Texts

Ware County Schools

Mr. Jim LeBrun, Superintendent

July 2014Page 1