Between Shades by Ruta Sepetys- Full Novel Unit

*This COMPLETE unit is designed specifically to work with language learners of a variety of ages and multiple skill levels.

*Over ten unique activities including quizzes for the full novel as well as three different cumulative assessment project options!

*It can be used for ELLs in grades 7-12, or mixed ELL and general education classes.

*Scaffolds provided for activities that can be used as needed for mixed-ability classes.

This unit includes:

Teacher planning tools:

-Unit calendar

-CCSS addressed

-Teacher notes about each activity in the PPT guide

Pre-reading activities:

-Prior knowledge quick assessment

-Building background PPT presentation, KWL and/or research

-Polar opposites activity

-Pre-reading opinion statements

During reading activities:

-Important terms handout

-Characters handout

-Character profiles

-Chapter-by-chapter prediction activity

-Flashbacks activity

Assessments:

-Chapter quizzes

-Vocabulary quizzes

-Quick writes

Post-reading activities/assessments:

-Post-reading opinion statements

-Genocide project

-Write an additional chapter

-Book review

What's the book about?

This is an eloquently written, poignant historical fiction novel with a strong female protagonist. Students really love this story and often want to read the companion novel, Salt to the Sea, right afterward. The novel centers on the relatively unknown mass deportation and genocide of people in the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia perpetrated by the Soviet Union during World War II.

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