Students will use this "YAG" as a guide to discuss
and brainstorm articles we read, things we discussed, and products we created
during each unit.
Unit 1: Who Am I As a Learner?
- What do I know about myself as a learner?
- What goals can I set for myself this year and how will I use growth mindset to reach them?
- Why is close reading a powerful tool to understanding text?
- Why is it important to reference text evidence to support my ideas?
- What does relevant and specific text evidence look like?
What did we do in
this unit? Example: We wrote a letter to ourselves in 8th grade.
Unit 2: Perception
- How do I see myself?
- What develops people’s ideas about me?
- How do I view others?
- What develops my ideas about others?
- How is my perception of myself different from how others see me?
- Why is my perception of myself sometimes different from how others see me?
Unit 3: Struggle
- What is struggle?
- What factors influence your ideas about struggle?
- How do others interpret or perceive their own struggles?
- How do people's struggles change the way I perceive them?
- How do the struggles we face change, determine, or identify who we are?
- How does struggle in literature affect us?
What did we do in
this unit? Example: We had a guest speaker who survived the
Holocaust.
Unit 4: Motivation
- What motivates you?
- How do the actions of others impact me and how do my actions impact others?
- What is worth fighting for?
- How does personal accountability help me to be motivated from the inside?
What did we do in
this unit?
Unit 5: Looking Beyond Myself
- How do we know what is true?
- How do we make meaning of our world?
- Why is it important if it’s not important to me?
What did we do in
this unit?
Unit 6: Maturity
- How do the choices I make today affect how others see me currently and in the future?
- What impact can I have on my own life and others around me?
- How can I contribute to society?
What did we do in
this unit?
