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Unit 4: Myths, Monsters, and Modern Stories — Tress of the Emerald Sea
Unit 4: Myths, Monsters, and Modern Stories — Tress of the Emerald Sea
California CCSS: Focus Standards
RL.6.1
RL.6.6
W.6.9
RL.6.3
W.6.1
W.6.4
W.6.5
SL.6.1
SL.6.1a
SL.6.1b
SL.6.4
SL.6.5
SL.6.6
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ELD Standards
ELD.PI.6.6a
ELD.PI.6.1
ELD.PI.6.12a
ELD.PI.6.10a
ELD.PII.6.6
ELD.PI.6.5
ELD.PI.6.9
ELD.PI.6.12b
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Lessons
Overview
Lessons
Assessments
Additional Resources
All Lessons
(45 total)
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Lesson 1: An Ordinary Hero — Tress Leaves the Island
Spark
50 min
Lesson 2: Diggen's Point — Tress's World Before the Journey
Reading
50 min
Lesson 3: Charlie Taken — What Drives Tress Onto the Spore Sea
Reading
50 min
Lesson 4: Life Aboard the Crow's Song — Surviving Among Pirates
Reading
50 min
Lesson 5: The Emerald Sea's Dangers — What Spores Can Do
Reading
50 min
Lesson 6: Hoid Tells the Story — A Fairy Tale That Keeps Winking at You
Reading
50 min
Lesson 7: Analytical Paragraph — How Tress's Noticing Develops Her Character
Writing
50 min
Lesson 8: Argumentative Writing — Is Tress a Hero at This Point in the Story?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 9: Personal Narrative — A Time I Did Something That Scared Me Anyway
Writing
50 min
Lesson 10: Writing Workshop — Synthesizing the Arc's Argument on Ordinary Courage
Writing
50 min
Lesson 11: Socratic Seminar — Is Tress Brave or Just Very Good at Noticing Things?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 12: Mid-Unit Assessment — Analyzing Tress's Character in Arc 1
Reading
50 min
Lesson 13: Independent Reading and Annotation
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 14: Revision Day — Strengthening Evidence on Heroism and Courage
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 15: Vocabulary Workshop — Spore Sea Terminology
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 16: Cleverness as Power — Tress Becomes a Sprouter
Spark
50 min
Lesson 17: The Crimson Sea — Tress's First Truly Dangerous Crossing
Reading
50 min
Lesson 18: Captain Crow's Secrets — Mentor, Villain, or Both?
Reading
50 min
Lesson 19: Fort and the Dougs — Community as Survival Mechanism
Reading
50 min
Lesson 20: Tress Masters the Spores — What Expertise Looks Like When It's Earned
Reading
50 min
Lesson 21: Cross-Scene Analysis — Comparing Tress's Confidence in Arc 1 vs. Arc 2
Reading
50 min
Lesson 22: Argumentative Draft — Does Tress's Sprouter Power Make Her More or Less Heroic?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 23: Counterargument — What a Believer in Chosen Heroes Would Say About Tress
Writing
50 min
Lesson 24: Revising for Evidence — Precision in Arguments About Heroism and Expertise
Writing
50 min
Lesson 25: Writing Workshop — Voice and Audience in an Argument About Courage and Cleverness
Writing
50 min
Lesson 26: Fishbowl Discussion — Is Captain Crow a Villain, a Mentor, or Both?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 27: Pre-Presentation Preparation — Tress's Heroism Across the Spore Seas
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 28: Group Presentations — What Makes Tress Heroic?
Presentation
50 min
Lesson 29: The Midnight Sea — The Most Dangerous Place on Lumar
Reading
50 min
Lesson 30: The Sorceress Revealed — Riina's Backstory and Its Complications
Reading
50 min
Lesson 31: What Makes a Fairy Tale Hero Real?
Spark
50 min
Lesson 32: Confronting the Sorceress — What Tress Knows That a Stronger Hero Wouldn't
Reading
50 min
Lesson 33: Riina's Tragedy — When the Villain Is Also a Victim
Reading
50 min
Lesson 34: The Midnight Sea's Transformation Magic — Spores That Change What You Are
Reading
50 min
Lesson 35: Tress's Cleverness at the Crisis — How Noticing Saves Everyone
Reading
50 min
Lesson 36: Charlie's Rescue — What the Quest Was Really About
Reading
50 min
Lesson 37: Synthesizing Across the Story — What Tress of the Emerald Sea Argues About Heroism
Reading
50 min
Lesson 38: Analytical Essay Draft — What Does Tress of the Emerald Sea Argue About Courage and Power?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 39: Weaving Evidence — Integrating Quotation and Analysis from Tress of the Emerald Sea
Writing
50 min
Lesson 40: Revising for Argument Clarity — Claim to Evidence to Warrant
Writing
50 min
Lesson 41: Final Revision and Polish — Preparing for Assessment
Writing
50 min
Lesson 42: Philosophical Chairs — Is Tress a Greater Hero Because She's Ordinary?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 43: Final Presentation Preparation — Ordinary Heroism in Tress of the Emerald Sea
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 44: End Unit Assessment — Courage, Cleverness, and the Ordinary Hero in Tress of the Emerald Sea
Reading
50 min
Lesson 45: Final Presentations — What Makes Tress an Extraordinary Ordinary Hero?
Presentation
50 min