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**DRIVING QUESTION: How do we deal with adversity?**

**LITERARY TEXTS:**

 * //A Christmas Carol//
 * //Witness//
 * //Wonder//
 * //Twelfth Night//
 * Poetry
 * Mythology
 * Author Study: Gary Soto - Seventh Grade, Trick or Treating, Baseball in April, Blackmail, Being Mean, Being Stupid, Novio Boy, assorted poems ("Oranges"), Melting Pot (nonfiction)

Common Assessment: Open response on Gary Soto's story "Inner Tube." Scheduled: October || 2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. Common Assessment: Compare/Contrast Sorry Wrong Number the radio play and Sorry Wrong Number the movie. Scheduled:November || 6. Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text. Common Assessment: Analysis of different characters' points of view within //Witness// Scheduled: May ||  ||   ||
 * 1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.