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Unit 3: Hidden Worlds & Unlikely Partners — Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Unit 3: Hidden Worlds & Unlikely Partners — Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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
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(45 total)
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Lesson 1: Two Worlds, One Body — What Changes When You See Through Someone Else's Eyes?
Spark
50 min
Lesson 2: Yumi's Morning Ritual — Rock Stacking as Sacred Practice
Reading
50 min
Lesson 3: Nikaro and the Nightmares — Painting as Survival
Reading
50 min
Lesson 4: The Body Swap Begins — Waking Up as Someone You Don't Understand
Reading
50 min
Lesson 5: Hoid Narrates — What the Story's Frame Tells Us About Its Purpose
Reading
50 min
Lesson 6: Two Rituals Collide — What Yumi and Nikaro Understand About Each Other's World
Reading
50 min
Lesson 7: Analytical Paragraph — How the Body Swap Develops Character in Yumi or Nikaro
Writing
50 min
Lesson 8: Argumentative Writing — Whose Version of Reality Does the Novel Privilege?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 9: Personal Narrative — A Time I Had to See Through Someone Else's Eyes
Writing
50 min
Lesson 10: Writing Workshop — Synthesizing the Arc's Argument on Identity and Perspective
Writing
50 min
Lesson 11: Socratic Seminar — Whose Reality Is More Real?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 12: Mid-Unit Assessment — Analyzing Yumi's or Nikaro's Character Arc
Reading
50 min
Lesson 13: Independent Reading and Annotation
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 14: Revision Day — Strengthening Evidence on Identity and Perspective
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 15: Vocabulary Workshop — Komashi Terminology
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 16: The Machine Revealed — When Art Becomes the Only Weapon
Spark
50 min
Lesson 17: The Machine's Secret — How the Spirits Are Being Enslaved
Reading
50 min
Lesson 18: Yumi and Nikaro Collaborate — Building Trust Across Worlds
Reading
50 min
Lesson 19: Virtuosity's Legacy — What the Self-Splintered Shard Left Behind
Reading
50 min
Lesson 20: Hion Lines and Hidden Connections — How Komashi's Two Worlds Are Really One
Reading
50 min
Lesson 21: Cross-Scene Analysis — Comparing Yumi's and Nikaro's Responses to the Machine
Reading
50 min
Lesson 22: Argumentative Draft — Can Art Defeat the Machine?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 23: Counterargument — What Someone Who Trusts Force Over Art Would Say
Writing
50 min
Lesson 24: Revising for Evidence — Precision in Arguments About Art and Power
Writing
50 min
Lesson 25: Writing Workshop — Voice and Audience in an Argument About Collaboration
Writing
50 min
Lesson 26: Fishbowl Discussion — Is the Machine a Metaphor for Any Real-World System?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 27: Pre-Presentation Preparation — Yumi and Nikaro's Partnership as Collaborative Argument
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 28: Group Presentations — How Yumi and Nikaro's Collaboration Changes Both Worlds
Presentation
50 min
Lesson 29: Hoid's Confession — What the Narrator Reveals About Why He's Telling This Story
Reading
50 min
Lesson 30: The Scholar's Garden — The Space Where Two Worlds Finally Meet
Reading
50 min
Lesson 31: Art as Power — What Can Be Made That Force Cannot Destroy?
Spark
50 min
Lesson 32: The Climax Approaches — Everything Yumi and Nikaro Have Built Faces Its Test
Reading
50 min
Lesson 33: The Machine's True Purpose — Virtuosity's Tragedy Revealed
Reading
50 min
Lesson 34: Yumi's Decision — What She's Willing to Sacrifice for the Spirits She Serves
Reading
50 min
Lesson 35: Nikaro's Art at the Crisis Point — Painting as the Only Act That Matters
Reading
50 min
Lesson 36: The Resolution — What Komashi Looks Like After the Machine Is Gone
Reading
50 min
Lesson 37: Synthesizing Across POVs — What the Novel Argues About Art, Collaboration, and Truth
Reading
50 min
Lesson 38: Analytical Essay Draft — What Does Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Argue Art Can Accomplish?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 39: Weaving Evidence — Integrating Quotation and Analysis from Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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 — Can Art Defeat Something That Force Cannot?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 43: Final Presentation Preparation — Art, Collaboration, and Hidden Truths in Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 44: End Unit Assessment — Whose Reality Is Real, and What Can Art Do About It?
Reading
50 min
Lesson 45: Final Presentations — Art as Power in Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Presentation
50 min