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Unit Title: From Carousel to Hunting Cap Name: Sabrina McCrocklin
Content Area: English Grade Level: 11
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how
they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze
the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly
fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.10
By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11-CCR text
complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

Interpret author's unstated ideas, using evidence to support their analysis of the text
A deeper understanding of symbolism, and the use of reliable vs unreliable narrators.
Answer the question: What insights about the human experience are offered through fictional means?
How is the adolescent experience represented through Holden? What does this novel say about innocence and being true to
oneself?
To Holden, what are the characteristics of the nature of childhood?
How does Holden handle the issues of phoniness, hypocrisy, and the realities of being an adult? Is Holden phony or sincere?
The narrator's deteriorating mental state signals to the reader that he or she must be wary of Holden as a reliable narrator, forcing
them to think more deeply when examining his interactions with other characters and his inner monologue.
Unit Summary:

Throughout this unit, students will practice critical reading. Notes will be taken in the text in the form of post it notes, or through digital
means, such as on a tablet or reader. At the beginning of the unit, students will take a short, fun survey to refresh their memory on literary
terms, and introduce the to any they might not be familiar with. As students read, they will be keeping a short journal on each chapter of
the book, noting important themes, motifs, or symbols as they appear. Students will also do an online webercise assignment in order to
put the novel within context, and connect the dots between their reading, and the historical climate at the time. At the end of the unit,
students will complete an informative timeline of Holden's important last stops in the novel. All of these activities will help students when
they write an analytic essay, demonstrating a deeper understanding of the novel.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Survey to find out how much
students remember about literary terms and
devices. Refreshes their memory on
important terms they will use when
analyzing the novel.
Formative: Students will keep an ongoing
journal during reading, taking note of when
the different symbols appear during the
novel. Students are to make one journal
entry per chapter. Journal entries must be a
minimum of a paragraph. Entries should
note when a symbol or motif occurs within
the story, and its significance, either to the
characters, the plot, or the meaning of the
work. Journals will be turned in on the
Friday of every week and will be returned
on Monday. Chapters to be read will be
assigned at the beginning of the week. This
is a credit/no credit assignment, but journals
will be critiqued and returned to students to
provide feedback.
Summative: Essay
Topic: Choose a theme from Catcher in the
Rye, and analyze one aspect of
theme.(Isolation, depression, death, the
symbol of the Catcher in the Rye). How
does it affect the story? How does it change
the characters? How does the author use a
common theme or trope within the story,
and what is the affect created? Write a 1000
word essay analyzing a main theme of the
book. Use at least two quotes from the book
to support your ideas, and one quote from
an outside literary source. Literary resources
should be found on a reliable database, such
as the school library website, or at an actual
library.
Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities: Students will take guided notes during lecture. Filling in the open
Objective: Search for (Assessments): spaces on the notes provided for them. An ongoing journal will be kept during
symbols and motifs Students will keep a reading to mark when symbols or motifs appear within the novel. Journals will be
within the story, using journal during reading, turned in on the Friday of every week and will be returned on Monday.
reasoning to deduct the taking note of when the
meanings of these different symbols
literary devices. appear during the
novel.
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities: Students will do online research about the author of the novel.
Objective: Evaluate Students will organize They will learn how to access and use scholarly research to support and give context
the text for historical research and turn in a to the material they are learning. Research will be organized, typed up, and turned in
and social context. typed up report of what the following class meeting.
they learned.

Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)

Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities: Students are to carefully read chapter's 24-26 of the book, noting
Objective: Create a Quotes from text are quotes from the text that stand out to them. When finished reading, students are to fill
digital multimodal used to support out the info graph. The places that Holden goes on the timeline are filled in. Students
composition illustrating students ideas. are to write a paragraph in each circle. Assignment will be due at the end of the
knowledge and week, and answers will be shared in group and class discussions.
understanding of
events and themes from
a literary text

Unit Resources:

Free PDF of the novel

Two free downloadable study guides
 Guided lecture notes
2 , 10 minute videos providing a recap and analysis of the novel
Information on the author: Wikipedia page, Letters to Hemingway, Embeded Documentary on Salinger
Infograph on Salingers path to writing Catcher in the Rye

Useful Websites:
Sutdent Presentation on Historical Context of Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger Wikipedia
Catcher in the Rye.pdf