Unit 5: ​The Hobbit
IB Inquiry Statement
Varying communities and races of people often work to resolve conflict to achieve peace.
Unit Focus
This focus of this unit is to practice literary analysis skills. Students will discuss literature
orally and construct written responses, which is a form of informational/explanatory writing.
The standards for this unit, shown below, are mostly 7​th​ grade standards. In 7​th​ grade the writing
focus is literary analysis, so this unit is meant to prepare students for that adventure in learning.
Standards
Key Standards
RL.6.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a
text and how it is conveyed through
particular details; provide a summary
of the text distinct from personal
opinions or judgments.
RL.7.3
Analyze how particular elements of a
story or drama interact (e.g., how setting
shapes the characters or plot).
RL.6.5
Analyze how a particular sentence,
chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the
overall structure of a text and contributes
to the development of the theme, setting,
or plot.
RL.7.7
Compare and contrast a written story,
drama, or poem to its audio, filmed,
staged, or multimedia version, analyzing
the effects of techniques unique to each
medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or
camera focus and angles in a film).
Targets
I will analyze how an author
develops theme over the course of
a literary text.
I will provide an objective
summary of a literary text.
I will analyze how setting shapes
the characters and plot in a literary
text.
I will analyze how a sentence,
​
chapter, scene, or stanza fits into
the overall structure of a text and
contributes to the development of
the theme, setting, or plot.
I will compare and contrast a
written text to its filmed version,
analyzing the effects of techniques
unique to each medium (e.g.,
lighting, sound, color, or camera
focus and angles in a film).
Assessments
These standards will be
assessed through:
ATL: Weekly reading and
Google classroom
assignments for ​The Hobbit
due on Mondays.
PROGRESS: Every standard
will be assessed for progress
through the in class activities
with ​The Hobbit.
ACHIEVEMENT: MC and
constructed response
This standard will only be
assessed for ATL and
Progress for ​the Hobbit
Schedule
Independent reading
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for this unit will be ​The Hobbit. Each week the reading and Google
classroom assignments will be due on Monday for an ATL C&D grade. We will spend the
week discussing, analyzing, and writing about the chapters read.
Week
1 (2/27-3/3)
Chapters
1-3
Due on
Monday, Feb. 27
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In class work
● Character Archetypes activity
● Watch ​An Unexpected Journey (troll scene)
● Progress Check: Extended Constructed
Response (RL.7.3)
2 (3/6-10)
4-6
Monday, March 6
● Progress Check: Characters in Conflict
activity (RL.7.3)
● Anticipation Guide for chapter 8
● (If time) Watch ​An Unexpected Journey
(Misty Mountain/Gollum scenes)
3 (3/13-17)
7-8
Monday, March 13
● Headlines activity ​(RL.7.2)
● Revisit Anticipation Guide
● Watch ​The Desolation of Smaug (chapters
7-8)
● Progress Check: Extended Constructed
Response (RL.6.5)
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4 (3/20-24)
9-13
Monday, March 20
● Light & Darkness (parts 1-3)
● Watch ​The Desolation of Smaug (chapters
9-13)
● Light & Darkness (parts 4-5)
● Progress Check: Extended Constructed
Response (RL.7.7)
Monday, March 27
● Storyboard chapters 14-19 in groups
● Watch selected scenes in groups and compare
movie to storyboard ​(RL.7.7)
● Achievement Assessments
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5 (3/27-31)
14-19