ENL1W Unit 5: Lit Circles

How do authors use point of view and literary devices to make us see the world differently? Students choose a novel at a book tasting and read it in literature circles. Each circle meeting builds a discussion skill, and mini-lessons build the literary toolkit.

Works with any novels: teacher-chosen sets, a whole-class novel or independent choice reading. All model passages are original, and the overview includes suggested titles and options for using your own novel plan.

Assessment of learning: a literary analysis (paragraph series or short essay) and a group book talk, with rubrics.

Lessons

1. Book Tasting
2. Circle Launch
3. Point of View
4. Circle Meeting 1
5. Flashback and Foreshadowing
6. Juxtaposition, Allusion and Analogy
7. Circle Meeting 2
8. Inference and Character
9. Theme and Perspective
10. Circle Meeting 3
11. Style and Voice
12. Circle Meeting 4
13. Literary Analysis
14. Draft and Peer Feedback
15. Book Talk Prep
16. Book Talks and Reflection

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview, suggested novels, and the summative tasks and rubrics

Built for the 2023 Ontario Grade 9 English curriculum (ENL1W, de-streamed), and easy to adapt for any Grade 9 English class.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.