Writing

Lesson 11: World-Changers: Percy and Raven

50 min

California CCSS: Focus Standards

Student Lesson

Content

Students will compare how Percy and Raven experience transformative experiences that reshape their worlds.

Language

Students will use comparison transitions, precise academic language, and formal explanatory sentences to explain shared ideas across two texts.

Foundations

Students will form abstract nouns from verbs and adjectives to write conceptual topic sentences.

Why do cultures tell stories about gods, monsters, journeys, and transformations?

Knowledge-Building:

Students connect two characters' experiences across stories to study how ancient myths and modern myth-inspired stories explain transformation.

Enduring Understanding:

Across cultures, stories use danger, sacrifice, and supernatural change to explore what it means to become responsible in a changing world.

Future Lessons:

In Lesson 12, students will evaluate how Percy’s dramatic transition into the mythic world is portrayed in a different medium.

Unit Performance Task:

Students are in the SRSD Support It stage as they practice explaining how two texts show a transition or transformation.

Lesson Flow	Purpose of Learning Experience
Launch5 Minutes	Students will activate prior learning from Lesson 10 and Chapter 4 homework to prepare for cross-text comparison.
Literacy Lab10 Minutes	Students will learn nominalization, transitions, and formal style so they can compare ideas instead of retelling plot.
Learning in Action30 Minutes	Part A: Gathering World-Changer Evidence (RL.6.9) Students will compare the transformations experienced by Percy and Raven using a Venn diagram. Part B: Draft a Comparison Paragraph (W.6.2.b, W.6.2.c) Students will write an explanatory paragraph using precise language, evidence, and transitions.

Material List

Routines

Short-Form Text

The Raven Myth

Myths and Legends of Alaska

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