The Literary Love unit is a multi-genre, thematic unit designed to hit various middle school ELA literature, writing, speaking, and listening standards while having students read and write in various genres. The unit focuses on how different authors use their craft to create love-related themes. This unit included eleven low-prep and 100% digital ELA lessons. Everything you need for each lesson is included, and each one is quick and easy to set up. 

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Break down the theme, author's craft, and poetic structure while reading, annotating, analyzing, and writing different texts and poems. Each piece of literature and poem was picked so students could focus on how each author's writing craft develops a theme related to love. To create a truly thematic, multi-genre unit, students will also write their odes and ballads to apply their learning about the author's craft and its effect on themes.

 Here's what's included:

• Eleven mini-lessons
• Examples and answer keys for all lessons
• An Essential Question format to drive all lessons
• Two final cumulative tasks on all concepts taught throughout the unit: A Socratic Seminar and a comparative literary analysis written response 
• Digital and PDF teaching slides for each lesson 

You and your students will love how each lesson differs from the last and builds in difficulty while still connecting to the unit's essential question. You and your students will love these quick interactive mini-lessons, introducing them to a new ELA concept each day while taking interactive notes with the provided teaching slides.

Your students can immediately apply their learning with quick practice tasks at the end of the teaching slides. Each lesson builds on the previous one to allow you to increase the rigor each day while also having varied interactive activities and slides to keep students engaged.  

 Students will read and write in various genres and with various tasks that require them to focus on the author’s craft and the themes they create. The final two lessons will have them participate in a Socratic Seminar and write a comparative analysis response while answering the essential questions.

The Literary Love unit’s essential questions are:

1. What author's craft techniques do authors use to reveal the theme of love?
2. How do authors use similar and/or different craft moves? 

The activities that accompany these lessons are 100% done for you. You will simply need to print what you need or assign copies of the student's notebook in Google Classroom. Some lessons can be printed, prepped, and used year after year. 

Prep is quick and easy... Print the student pages, set up your example or slides to be displayed, and teach each scaffolded lesson. 

The eleven Literary Love lessons are:

1. Lesson 1: Introduction to Theme
2. Lesson 2: Author’s Craft One: Conflict, Plot, Setting, and Characters
3. Lesson 3: Theme Analysis: “All Summer in a Day”
4. Lesson 4: Author’s Craft One: Literary Devices
5. Lesson 5: Annotating a Short Story for Author’s Craft: “Amigo Brothers”
6. Lesson 6: Ode Poetry
7. Lesson 7: Annotating Poems for Author’s Craft: “Dear Basketball” and “An American Love Poem”
8. Lesson 8: Ballads
9. Lesson 9: Annotating a Short Story for Author’s Craft: “The White Umbrella”
10. Lesson 10: Comparative Analysis Socratic Seminar for Unit Essential Question
11. Lesson 11: Comparative Analysis Written Response for Unit Essential Question