Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | Grade 7 ELA Unit | EN/ES/HT | SpEd

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - How Do the Parts of a Story Work Together? - a Grade 7 English Language Arts unit on how place, characters and plot shape each other, Special Education and English Learner edition. Eleven class periods: eight story days (one part of the story per day), a seminar day with a cold read, a transfer-task day on a brand-new text, and the Story Check on its own day. Fully trilingual: English, Latin American Spanish and Haitian Creole as three separate single-language sets of files - never a translation table. Day 1 - A flood, a rescue, and a new house Day 2 - The garden, the tailorbirds, and the cobras Day 3 - A small snake in the dust Day 4 - A voice in the dark and a plan Day 5 - A long night in the bathroom Day 6 - A song, a secret, and a broken wing Day 7 - A cobra on the veranda Day 8 - Underground, and then the garden sings Day 9 - A seminar and a text you have not read Day 10 - A brand-new text (the transfer task) Day 11 - The Story Check, on its own day Every teaching day: a Do Now, an "I can ... by ..." learning target, two story words, a SUPPORT / ON-LEVEL / STRETCH choice on every response point, a printed starter under every answer box, two Turn and Talks with the four discourse moves printed (agree, disagree respectfully, build on it, ask for the page), a student self-check, and an Exit Ticket. Day 9 is a structured-controversy seminar with two printed roles. The story is Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" from The Jungle Book (1894, Project Gutenberg eBook #236, public domain), read one part per day with page references; the Day 9 cold read and the Day 10 transfer text are two more Jungle Book stories (public domain). Pictures: thirteen W. H. Drake plates from the 1894 book and three public-domain photographs (Kipling, 1895; two fur-seal photographs from U.S. government archives), plus storybook-style illustrations created for the unit (not photographs), each credited on the slide. WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD (6 ZIP files: each language is split into 2 parts because of the size of the slide decks; 60 files in all, including a README and a sources/rights file): - 15 student slide decks (.pptx), 5 per language (233 slides per language) - 30 student papers (.docx), one per day per language - 3 transfer tasks (.docx), one per language - 3 Story Checks and 3 answer keys (.docx), one per language - 3 story rubrics (.docx), one per language - 1 teacher guide (.docx, English) - a README and a sources/rights file (Download all 6 files. The English files also hold the teacher guide, README and sources/rights file.) Story Check (Day 11): 8 items (6 multiple-choice + 2 written: how a detail of the place decides an event, and how the story would change in a different place), each with a printed starter; answer key and story rubric included. Editable .pptx and .docx, built to be used online: students type into text boxes. No lined paper. Teacher supplies: Nothing. PLEASE NOTE: The Spanish and Haitian Creole files are generated translations and have not been reviewed by a fluent ELA teacher. The unit has not yet been tried with students. Single-teacher license.