Introduction to CBS Unit Adversity and Resilience Mrs. R. Walker Language Arts

Definitions Resilience - the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Adversity - difficulties; misfortune. Words that mean the same - misfortune, bad luck, trouble, difficulty, hardship, distress, disaster, suffering, affliction, sorrow, misery, tribulation, woe, pain, trauma

Big Ideas and Goals How does a person overcome adversity? How does a society prevail in the face of adversity? You will be reading texts that explore adversity. You will be able to identify the problems your text deals with and how each person showed resilience and overcame adversity. You will be able to identify how people use adversity to make society better.

Final Products - Summative You will write an essay using multiple texts to answer the following prompt: What characteristics are necessary for people as individuals and as a society to possess in order to prevail in the face of adversity? You will also create a tri-fold brochure that addresses an adversity, gives a list of characteristics needed to overcome adversity, and a minimum of two national and two local resources for people experiencing adversity.

Essential Questions 1.What is “adversity” and “resilience?” 2.What adversities have you experienced as a member of our society? 3.How have you prevailed or shown resilience when faced with adversities as a member of our society? 4.What adversities have individuals and societies faced globally and nationally? How have individuals and societies prevailed or shown resilience when faced with adversities? 5.What characteristics are necessary for people as individuals and as a society to possess in order to prevail in the face of adversity? 6.How can I equip people facing adverse situations or conditions with the necessary information and resources to overcome such adversities?

Reader Response Sections Section 1 - Essential Question 1, 2, 3 Definitions, Adversity Essays Section 2 - Essential Question 4 Journal Entries for Videos and Articles Section 3 - Essential Question 5 Identify characteristics needed to overcome adversities from CBS Novel and Additional Resources Section 4 - Essential Question 6 Topic for Brochure and Resources Found

Notice and Note You will continue to use Notice and Note Graphic organizers with your CBS novels. 1.Contrast and Contradictions 2.Aha Moment 3.Tough Questions 4.Words to the Wiser 5.Again and Again 6.Memory Moment

Text Choices I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai – 7 pts The Boy on the Wooden Box, Leon Leyson – 7pts Of Beetles and Angels, Mawi Asgedom – 4 pts Warrior’s Heart, Eric Greitens – 10 pts Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers – 8 pts Regine’s Book, Regine Stokke – 13 pts A Child Call It/ Lost Boy, David Pelzer – 5 pts and 9 pts Night, Elie Wiesel – 8? pts AR Points

CBS Overview You will be reading your CBS book identifying an adversity/multiple adversities your character faced You will be gathering evidence for an essay on adversity as well as gathering evidence for Notice and Note throughout the unit At the end you will write an essay on the essential question as well as create a brochure to help others who face the adversity in the community

Adversity Journal 1 What adversities have you experienced as a member of our society? List and briefly describe at least three or go into great detail with one adversity.