Collabotive+Unit+Plan+TZangari

For the Collaborative Unit Plan, I propose that we teach an abstractly themed unit which focuses on literature that expresses self-exploration and self-growth. I think that if we did a unit on any particular piece of literature, we would all get bored teaching it eighteen different ways. (Can you imagine eighteen different "To Kill a Mockingbirds"?) However, if we all chose different literature that all related to the same literary theme, especially one that we will be dealing with in secondary communications, we could have a lot more variety in our classes and we could all get something valuable out of teaching and watching these presentations.

With this sort of unit plan, we can touch on many different aspects of teaching young adults and we can use different archetypes in stories and novels to work with self-exploration and possibly the coming of age novels. There are a lot of different novels that we can use to work with this unit and we will all be bringing something unique to the table because this idea of a thematic unit plan also relies heavily on interpretation and individuality, which are both things that we will have to work with in a secondary classroom. Also, we'll be able to use this to reach many of Pennsylvania's State Standards, which is something that as teachers we will need to be able to do easily.