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=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= English Language Arts - A. Reading A2 Literary Texts, Grades 7-8: __Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone__ Students will read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and analyze the characteristics noting how structural features and common literary devices help shape the reader's response. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results:

//What understandings are desired?//
• every text has at least one central theme • every text has a plot, including a conflict ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * • there are a variety of literary devices that constitute a literary text

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• How are themes determined, and how do they affect the text and the reader? • Why is conflict important in literature? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • How does each literary device affect the text?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
• Critical details: Sorcerer's Stone, scar, Fluffy, Voldemort • Sequence and timeline: Harry as a baby, with family, at Hogwarts, etc... || • demonstrate understanding of literary devices. • evaluate literary themes. • exhibit themes in real-life situations. • compare the effects of literary devices. • relate to characters in conflict. • be aware of the importance of plot structure. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * • Terminology: Hogwarts, Muggle, Quidditch, transfiguration, Devil's Snare


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**