About This Unit:

        This unit was created as a final assessment in my senior Teacher's Education course. The assignment asked future English teachers to create a year-long unit that unites essential questions, content standards, important themes, and literature into conceptual units.
        In creating this unit, I was able to use influence gained from my own past learning experiences, observations from my placement classrooms, as well as several professional theory textbooks to guide my conceptual units.

Resources Used in This Unit:

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Teaching English by Design
by Peter Smagorinsky:                        
        I used this textbook to develop methods of how to construct my conceptual units. Several of my themes and corresponding texts in these units are from an online resource provided in this textbook.







Teaching the Neglected R by Newkirk and Kent
        This textbook is a compilation of articles written by former and current English teachers and writers, aimed at helping teachers with writing instruction in the classroom. I used this text in developing my podcasting lessons in my Dystopian conceptual unit, which also appear in my lesson showcase.