S1+Mourkas+Margaret

=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= A2 Literary Texts Grade 9 - Diploma** //A River Runs Through It// c. Explain how different point of view can affect the overall theme. ||
 * **Establish Goals:** **(G)** ||
 * //**Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts -**// **A Reading
 * Students read text within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and present analysis of fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry, using excerpts from the text to defend their assertion.**

//What understandings are desired?//
• there are many different subplots that interact to form the main plot. • there is more than one genre within the book and need to know how to identify them. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * • the characters are all working "silently" together to resolve the conflict.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• Why does every event that happens around Paul shape him and lead to his downfall? • How many different genres are within the book and what makes them those genres? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • How does each character help the brothers through out the book?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
• Important Details and People: Maclean Family, Rawhide, Jessie's Family, Rawhide and Neal's sexual/drunken adventure, Jessie and Norman's never lose touch moment, Final Fishing Trip. • Vocabulary: Memoir, Novella, Presbyterian, Autobiography, Biography || • c. Explain how different point of view can affect the overall theme. • g. Evaluate the characteristics of various genres of literature and their purposes. • Decide whether or not Paul deserves the ending he receives. • Analyze the genres of the book and find their parts. • Consider that the characters are all working together to help resolve the conflict. • Recognize that there are many sub-plots that form the main plot. ||
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to:// **(S)** ||
 * • Critical Details: no clear line between religion and fly-fishing, the brother's father is a preacher and expects perfection, Paul doesn't try as hard as Norman does, Norman is always protecting and rescuing Paul.

//**2004 ASCD and** **Grant Wiggins and JayMcTighe**//