Description
Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL Divergent Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 7-week novel study — prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, figurative language, writing, and more. You’ll love the “print-and-go” activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (595+ pages, slides, & forms for all your print and digital teaching needs).
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don’t forget the easy-grade Google Forms!
Your learners will have fun with the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson plan journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This literature guide includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of fun activities.
Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns the lesson plan to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.
To make your digital experience smooth, we include instructions (w/ screenshots!) of how to download and organize your activities in Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We’ve added easy-grade Google Forms versions of each activity that auto-corrects their responses using a suggested answer key (which you can adjust afterward or modify your answer key) and compiles grades into a spreadsheet with learners’ names and class periods to make things easier for you to grade all in one place (some types of questions aren’t able to auto-grade, though, because of the short-answer format).
TEXT: DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth
LEVEL: 7th – 9th
TOTAL: 595+ combined slides/pages/forms in lesson plan unit
→ Based off the 2014 Katherine Tegen Books Edition [ISBN: 978-0062387240].
→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.
→ Pacing Guide and Suggested Answer Keys included
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DIVERGENT – NOVEL STUDY CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit book study
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards (CCSS novel unit). Easy TEKS conversion.
→ Easy to differentiate the lesson plan for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ BEFORE READING
★ Google Earth Introduction Tour
– The train systems, the 5 Faction Headquarters, The Hub, and and the zipline ride from the top of the Hancock Building…and many of the 20 locations zoomed in to the 3D street view. It’s rockin awesome.
– 20-location 3D tour across Chicago
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity
– answer thematic questions to get learners thinking about the novel
– 11 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1
★ Introduction to Utopias Slideshow
– Introduces students to the concept of utopias and dystopias; provides examples from real life, novels, and film
– 23 slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ DURING READING
★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc Activity
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 10 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
– suggested answer key provided
★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict Activity
– analyze the 6 different types of conflict
– 7 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
– suggested answer key provided
★ Character Analyzer Activity
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 12 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ Analogies Slideshow & Activity
– analyze and complete 15 analogies specific to the novel
– 46 pages, slides, & forms
– suggested answer key provided
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Factions Analyzer Activity
– analyze their thoughts about the 5 factions: clothes, demeanor, beliefs, and values
– 12 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ Journal Questions – Quickwrite Writing Prompts
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 142 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
★ 13 Comprehension Pop Quizzes
– a 5 comprehension question pop quiz per 3 chapters
– 89 pages, slides, & forms
– The purpose of these is so learners who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and learners who didn’t read recently would not show comprehension.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2,10
★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment
– 60 vocabulary words from the novel
– one 60-question quiz and two 30-question quizzes
– 56 pages, slides, & forms – suggested answer key provided
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ AFTER READING
★ Persuasive Essay Writing and Speech
– 3 persuasive essay options for learners to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay and speech grading rubrics
– 10 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,9
– CCSS.ELA-SpeakingListening.SL.1,4,6
★ Movie vs. Novel Comparison Activity
– 4 pages & slides
– compare and contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Enjoy! And let the choice transform you!
