Full ELA Novel Study Unit Plan for Monster by Walter Dean Myers *Creative*

Updated October 2022! This is a full, ready-to-go resource jam-packed with creative and differentiated activities! Everything you need is included. This is tried and tested by me, in my own classroom. I have used every resource I include.

This HUGE Bundle includes

• 80+ colorful slides laid out in chronological order
• Editable unit pacing calendar with reading assignments by day (just added 10/22)
• Updated virtual field trip with student interactive components (just updated 10/22)
• Journal prompts for each day of reading, including a musical journal prompt
• Reading assignments and questions for each day
• Anticipation pre-reading activities
• Several fun, differentiated, interactive, and creative activities to promote critical thinking
• Interactive study guide students can complete online or via paper copy
• Study guide key
• Test with multiple choice, matching, long-response, and short-response questions fully editable on Google Forms for easy grading.
• Teacher notes on the "notes" section of the slides to help guide you in your instruction and give you tips on what worked for me in my classroom

My students love this novel, which is written like a screenplay and journal entries narrated by 16-year-old Steve Harmon, a black teen, resident of Harlem, and Stuyvesant High School student and film enthusiast, who is on trial in New York State for Felony Murder. This unit is designed for middle school, junior high, or high school students. The unit includes a full Google Slides presentation (fully-editable) with 76 slides. This is a 14-day plan, and includes 14 journal prompts, 14 reading, study, or test assignments, discussion questions after every section of the novel, and fun, interactive activities designed to get students moving, motivated, and engaged in critical reflection of the text. There is never a better time in our country to read this compelling text by a BIPOC author. The slides delve into race, identity, justice, and preconceived notions. These lessons ask students to confront their own stereotypes as the novel also asks us to do the same.

The differentiated and creative activities include a virtual field trip through Harlem, fishbowl discussion, a barometer activity, a collision script project where students create a haiku based on closing arguments in the case and perform them, a mini-research activity on the juvenile justice system, a memory map art project, and pre-reading and post-reading activities.

The unit also includes extensive study guides and keys, as well as a ready-made google forms test for easy grading. Elements of the graphic novel are also explored briefly as an optional text question.