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PROJECT TITLE: LitReach: Unlocking Meaning Through Literature

Grade Level: Grade 9 – English

Prepared by: Maria Geahlina E. Lopez

Instructions: Beginning with your learning goals and what you know about your students’ strengths, interests, and needs, map out a “big picture” overview of your project.

STEP 1: PROJECT IDEA

Driving How will the students improve reading comprehension through LitReach, unlocking meaning through literature?
Question

Learning At the end of 13-day session, the students should be able to:
Goals
a. identify key elements of literature;
b. recognize comprehension strategies such as summarizing, predicting, and questioning while reading; and
c. create a multimedia literary response portfolio showcasing their understanding.

Project This project aims to strengthen reading comprehension by diving into short stories, poems, and excerpts from literature. Students will
Summary explore key literary elements and learn strategies that help them make sense of what they read. They will work in reading groups, create
journals, and produce a creative final portfolio. The project ends with a class showcase where students present their favorite pieces and
insights from their reading journey.

Individual Products Team Products

Major
Product(s) Creativity- The students will have a creative reinterpretation, Collaboration- The students will perform a dramatized scene or creative
it may be a blackout poem, digital collage, or rewritten scene. reading presentation.
Critical thinking- The students will make short analytic Communication- The students will have reading circle discussions, a group-
pieces focusing on the theme or character. led analysis and peer questioning.

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Self-reflection: The students will make literary response

journals, regular reflections, theme logs, and vocabulary
discoveries.

Making it A presentation on their final works in a “LitReach Gallery Day” event, where their journals, essays, and projects are shared in a classroom
Public gallery. Guests will include teachers, other students, and parents.

Key  Lit Map (Story elements reference)

Project  Theme Catcher (Theme organizer)
Document  Lit Log (Reading response journal)
s  Creative Spark Sheet (Creative project planner)
 LitPack Checklist (Portfolio completion tracker)
 Rubrics for journal, essay, and final project

Step 2: Project Path Overview

Instructions:
1. In the left-hand column, map out the major milestones that tell the “story” of your project across the four phases of the Project Path.
2. In the middle column, consider the questions students will be engaged in answering during each milestone– make sure that your Project Launch will spark these questions for
students.
3. Brainstorm learning experiences that will help students to answer each question and grow in relation to the project learning goals. You can note these learning
experiences in the right-hand column of this section, or jump to the Day-by-Day Calendar and record them there. Be sure to include the following:

 Scaffolds for all of your learners

 Intentional literacy supports
 Structured reflection Formative assessments
 Critique and revision processes

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Project Launch
Milestone Anticipated Student Need to Know Question Learning Experiences
(Lessons, Activities, and Scaffolds)

Orientation of project What will be the goal of the project? Orientation session and introduction of driving question.

What will be the scope of the topic? Presentation and discussion on the types of literary pieces (short stories,
Overview of Literary poems, excerpts).
Pieces

Lesson: Elements of What are the key parts of a story? Lesson on plot, character, setting, theme, and conflict (Lit Map).
Literature

Lesson: Reading Strategies What are strategies to help me understand a text? Guided practice on predicting, questioning, summarizing, and inferring.

Vocabulary Building How do I learn new words from stories? Word Watch activity and vocabulary games from texts.

Reading Circle How do we share ideas and talk about stories as a Group roles practice using Circle Talk Cards.
Introduction group?

Creative Expression How can I show my understanding in a fun and Introduction to Creative Spark project options (poetry, skit, drawing).
creative way?

Build Knowledge and Develop & Critique

Milestone Anticipated Student Need to Know Question Learning Experiences
(Lessons, Activities, and Scaffolds)

Mission 1 What are the important parts of a story? Literary Elements activity (plot, character, setting, theme)
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Mission 2 How do I understand what the author is trying to say? Theme Catcher worksheet using a short story

Mission 3 How can I connect personally to what I read? Journal entry using Lit Log: “What does this story mean to me?”

Mission 4 How do I figure out hard words in a story? Vocabulary log (Word Watch) using context clues

Workshop 1 How can we talk about stories in a group? Reading Circle using Circle Talk Cards and discussion questions

Workshop 2 How can I show what I learned creatively? Creative Spark planning and draft work with peer feedback

Present Products (1 - 2 hours)

Milestone Anticipated Student Need to Know Question Learning Experiences

(Lessons, Activities, and Scaffolds)

Compiling the Portfolio How do I put together all my reading work? Use of LitPack Checklist and review of journal, essay, and creative tasks.

Presentation of Creative Work How can I share my project with the class? Practice presentation of Creative Spark and Lit Log highlights.

Peer Feedback Session What can I improve in my work? Use rubrics for giving and receiving peer feedback.

Final Presentation (LitLoom How can I explain what I learned about Class presentation and sharing of portfolio and projects to peers and
Showcase) reading? guests.

Step 3: Day-by-Day Calendar

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Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

 Project Launch: Watch  Mini-lesson on  Read-aloud of selected  Students re-read  Literary Circle #1:
a short film on the literary elements: short story. and annotate the Students share their
power of stories. plot, character,  Model comprehension story interpretations.
 Introduce the project setting, theme, strategies (predicting, independently.  Reflection journal:
and driving question. conflict. questioning, summarizing).  Fill in the Theme “What surprised you
Entry journal: “What  Use graphic Tracker worksheet. about today’s story?”
does reading mean to organizers.  Begin vocabulary
you?”  Group quiz game on log.
elements.

Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10

 Mini-lesson: Using  Literary Circle #2:  Creative Response  Peer gallery walk  Peer review and
context clues and Different story, new Workshop: Students choose of creative pieces. editing of mini
inferencing. roles in discussion. between blackout poetry,  Mini-lesson on essays.
 Students practice with  Use peer questioning digital collage, or writing an literary analysis  Finalize reflections
short passages. cards. alternative ending. writing. for Literary
 Update vocabulary log.  Group reflection on  Drafting mini Response Journal.
how discussion essays on theme or  Begin compiling
helped character. portfolio.
comprehension.

Day 11 Day 12 Day 13

 Finalize all individual  LitReach Gallery Day:  Post-Project Reflection:

and group Setup classroom Class discussion on what
components. gallery. was learned.
 Rehearse  Present portfolios,  Final journal: “How has
presentations. artwork, and short literature changed the way

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 Self-evaluation performances. you read and think?”

checklist.  Gather peer and  Project evaluation forms.
teacher feedback.

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