A Bonus Mini-Unit for End-of-Year Sanity (Or Beginning-of-Year Foundation-Building)

I would normally share my semi-weekly lesson plans with you today, but, honestly, my lesson plans have looked like this:

• Independent Reading

• Work On Final Projects

• Survive

I thought instead I would share how I am surviving right now. I’m going to give you a template for this kind of unit (that is perfect for the end of the year but also perfect as a diagnostic at the beginning of the year so you can get a writing sample),and then we’ll look at the specifics: