This Common Core resource includes 21 rigorous unit learning tasks for Sharon Draper’s, "Darkness Before Dawn." This novel is the 3rd in her Hazelwood High series. The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This re