LitPlan Novel Study The Color Purple (LitPlan Novel Study Units)

LitPlan Novel Study The Color Purple (LitPlan Novel Study Units)

This LitPlan Novel Study for The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a comprehensive foundation of ready-to-use materials that will ensure your students get the most out of their The Color Purple novel study. Practical, flexible , and standards-based with step-by-step plans for the whole novel unit, this LitPlan Novel Study is especially helpful to new teachers or veteran teachers teaching The Color Purple for the first time. 20 Step-by-Step Daily Lessons guide you and your students through this novel study. Assignments and Activities are planned for each day of the novel unit. Vocabulary Worksheets that focus on meaning in context and dictionary definitions go with each reading assignment. Comprehension Questions and Quizzes follow the reading assignments, so you know if your students are keeping up with their reading and understanding what they are reading. Writing Assignments are sprinkled throughout this novel study for The Color Purple , too! Detailed writing assignment sheets guide students' writing. One lesson is also devoted to Leveled Critical Thinking Questions : Interpretive Questions require students to simply interpret facts that are given. - Critical Questions require students to think deeply to develop answers that go beyond what is in the text. - Personal Response Questions have no right or wrong answer; students formulate and give their own opinions. A Nonfiction Reading Assignment is incorporated into this novel study unit for The Color Purple . Students are required to read at least one nonfiction article and view at least one nonfiction video related to the story and complete a short report form analyzing their sources. A Variety of Additional Activities are woven into this The Color Purple novel study: Group Project - Relationships - Guest Speaker - Activities Gender Roles/Sexism - Compare/Contrast - Community - Climax of the Novel - Character Growth - Theme - Compare/Contrast - Novel to the Musical - Oral Reading Evaluation - Writing Conferences - Oral Reports The relationship project in this unit. This project requires students to analyze the relationships in the novel and explain how these relationships help characters grow and change throughout the story. Vocabulary and Whole-Unit Review puzzles, games, and worksheets are included. Five Different Unit Tests are provided on different levels and to use for make-up tests or tests for different classes if you're teaching the book to more than one class at a time. Two are multiple-choice, two are short-answer, and one is advanced short-answer. You can mix-and-match test sections as well. Evaluation Rubrics, Bulletin Board Ideas, Extension Activities, and Answer Keys are also included. FLEXIBILITY is a key property of this novel study unit for The Color Purple . It is formatted so that you can skip a planned activity and plug in one of your own favorites if you want to. - You can use all or just parts of this LitPlan. - Written for whole-class use, but easily adaptable for: independent study - small groups or lit circles - Homeschooling - tutoring A teacher-favorite for years , hundreds of thousands of LitPlans have been used by tens of thousands of teachers in the USA, Canada, and overseas schools, providing reliable, high-quality, standards-based resources for teaching literature. If you want a solid foundation for teaching a work of literature, LitPlans have proved themselves worthy over years of use worldwide.