Resource Spotlight:
Unit Planning Guide
ELA Unit Planning Guide The ELA Unit Planning Guide coaches teachers through the process of applying Facing History’s approach to their unit design process. The guide includes seven sections of interactive learning content, plus classroom-ready resources such as essential questions, journal prompts, and customizable student activities to help teachers build daily lessons within the unit. The guide provides a framework and classroom resources that can be used with any book of your choosing.
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Resource Spotlight:
Unit Planning Guide
Unit Planning Template In the "Getting Started" section of the Planning Guide you will find an overview of the guide and materials to help you navigate it and support your planning process, including the Unit Planning Template. The template includes space to outline learning outcomes, essential questions, summative assessment plans, a reading schedule, and lesson plan ideas.
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Resource Spotlight:
Unit Planning Guide
Learn more about what's in each section of the guide by selecting each of the section titles below:
Section 4: Craft the Essential Question
Section 3: Determine Learning Objectives and Outcomes
Section 1: Start with Yourself
Section 2: Choose an Anchor Text
Section 5: Design the Summative Assessment
Section 6: Incorporate Facing History Journal Pormpts
Section 7: Plan Instruction and Activities
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Section 1:
Start with Yourself
A guided self-reflection to help you consider your identities, your students’ identities, and your own ideas about teaching and learning.
Section 5:
Design the Summative Assessment
Ten summative assessment ideas that support you in creating an engaging culminating task that is aligned to your learning objectives, outcomes, anchor text, and essential question, as well as a summative assessment guide for a coming-of-age unit.
Section 6:
Incorporate Facing History Journal Prompts
Creative ways to incorporate journals into your unit and lesson plans, plus a bank of Facing History journal prompts aligned with each of our thematic ELA collections.
Section 2:
Choose an Anchor Text
A question-driven protocol to support the text selection process, as well as questions to help you help students fully engage with the world of the text.
Section 7:
Plan Instruction and Activities
A guide to using Facing History learning experiences, which are student-centered, classroom-ready activities aligned to our learning objectives and outcomes that you can incorporate into your lesson plans.
Section 4:
Craft the Essential Question
A guide to writing compelling essential questions for a unit that can help students explore the curriculum in greater depth, as well as an activity to help you test-drive your essential question. Plus, a bank of essential questions aligned with each of Facing History’s thematic ELA collections.
Section 3:
Determine Learning Objectives and Outcomes
A guide to Facing History learning objectives and learning outcomes that can be paired with state and local standards or used on their own to identify enduring areas of understanding, important ideas, and key concepts in the unit.
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Resource Spotlight:
Unit Planning Guide
ELA Unit Planning Guide The ELA Unit Planning Guide coaches teachers through the process of applying Facing History’s approach to their unit design process. The guide includes seven sections of interactive learning content, plus classroom-ready resources such as essential questions, journal prompts, and customizable student activities to help teachers build daily lessons within the unit. The guide provides a framework and classroom resources that can be used with any book of your choosing.
1 of 3
Resource Spotlight:
Unit Planning Guide
Unit Planning Template In the "Getting Started" section of the Planning Guide you will find an overview of the guide and materials to help you navigate it and support your planning process, including the Unit Planning Template. The template includes space to outline learning outcomes, essential questions, summative assessment plans, a reading schedule, and lesson plan ideas.
2 of 3
Resource Spotlight:
Unit Planning Guide
Learn more about what's in each section of the guide by selecting each of the section titles below:
Section 4: Craft the Essential Question
Section 3: Determine Learning Objectives and Outcomes
Section 1: Start with Yourself
Section 2: Choose an Anchor Text
Section 5: Design the Summative Assessment
Section 6: Incorporate Facing History Journal Pormpts
Section 7: Plan Instruction and Activities
3 of 3
Section 1:
Start with Yourself
A guided self-reflection to help you consider your identities, your students’ identities, and your own ideas about teaching and learning.
Section 5:
Design the Summative Assessment
Ten summative assessment ideas that support you in creating an engaging culminating task that is aligned to your learning objectives, outcomes, anchor text, and essential question, as well as a summative assessment guide for a coming-of-age unit.
Section 6:
Incorporate Facing History Journal Prompts
Creative ways to incorporate journals into your unit and lesson plans, plus a bank of Facing History journal prompts aligned with each of our thematic ELA collections.
Section 2:
Choose an Anchor Text
A question-driven protocol to support the text selection process, as well as questions to help you help students fully engage with the world of the text.
Section 7:
Plan Instruction and Activities
A guide to using Facing History learning experiences, which are student-centered, classroom-ready activities aligned to our learning objectives and outcomes that you can incorporate into your lesson plans.
Section 4:
Craft the Essential Question
A guide to writing compelling essential questions for a unit that can help students explore the curriculum in greater depth, as well as an activity to help you test-drive your essential question. Plus, a bank of essential questions aligned with each of Facing History’s thematic ELA collections.
Section 3:
Determine Learning Objectives and Outcomes
A guide to Facing History learning objectives and learning outcomes that can be paired with state and local standards or used on their own to identify enduring areas of understanding, important ideas, and key concepts in the unit.