Rationale
Through the teaching of this unit, the students will learn various ways fiction and non-fiction can work together. This unit will expose them to multiple texts from different genres. The selected texts will be about the same subject, which will provide a richer and deeper understanding of the literature, the event, and the time period, and transfer to the students’ ability to make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
The unit will also enrich their writing skills. It will provide them with opportunities to write non-fiction in response to fiction and to write fiction in response to non-fiction. These types of writing exercises are more challenging and require the students to synthesize material. They must have a strong grasp of fiction and non-fiction as well as of comparing texts.
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