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| Unit 1: Interpretation Book Clubs: Analyzing Themes |
| Session 1: Taking Charge of Your Reading Life |
| Session 2: Writing Well about Reading |
| Session 3: Writing about Reading Means Reading with a Writerly Wide-Awakeness |
| Session 4: Grounding Your Thinking in the Text and Carrying It with You as You Read On |
| Session 5: Whose Story is This, Anyway?: Considering Perspectives and Its Effects |
| Session 6: Learning to Think Analytically |
| Session 7: Having Second Thoughts: Revising Writing about Reading |
| Session 8: Launching Interpretation Book Clubs |
| Session 9: Characters—and Readers—Find Meaning in the Midst of Struggle |
| Session 10: Seeing a Text through the Eyes of Other Readers |
| Session 11: Linking Ideas to Build Larger Theories and Interpretations |
| Session 12: Reading On, with Interpretations in Mind |
| Session 13: Debating to Prompt Rich Book Conversation: Readers Have Different Viewpoints, Defending with Claims, Reasons, and Evidence |
| Session 14: Reflecting on Ourselves as Book Clubs |
| Session 15: Two Texts, One Theme: A Comparison Study |
| Session 16: Rethinking Themes to Allow for More Complexity |
| Session 17: Comparing Characters’ Connections to a Theme |
| Session 18: Studying the Choices an Author Did Not Make to Better Understand the Ones They Did |
| Session 19: Delving Deeper into Literary Analysis: Reading as Writers |
| Session 20: Celebrating with a Literary Salon |
| Unit 2: Tackling Complexity: Moving Up Levels of Nonfiction |
| Session 1: The More You Know, the More You See |
| Session 2: Orienting to More Complex Text |
| Session 3: Uncovering What Makes a Main Idea Complex |
| Session 4: Strategies for Determining Implicit Main Ideas |
| Session 5: Using Context to Determine the Meaning of Vocabulary in Complex Texts |
| Session 6: Inquiry into Using Morphology of Words to Tackle Tricky Vocabulary |
| Session 7: Complex Thinking about Structure: From Sentence Level to Text Level |
| Session 8: Rising to the Challenges of Nonfiction |
| Session 9: Summarizing as Texts Get Harder |
| Session 10: Learning from Sources |
| Session 11: Learning from Primary Research |
| Session 12: Coming to Texts as Experts |
| Session 13: Writing about Reading in Nonfiction |
| Session 14: Lifting the Level of Questions (Using DOK) to Drive Research Forward |
| Session 15: Synthesizing across Subtopics |
| Session 16: Writing about Reading: From Big Ideas to Specifics |
| Session 17: Comparing and Contrasting What Authors Say (and How They Say It) |
| Session 18: Critically Reading Our Texts, Our Topics, and Our Lives |
| Session 19: Living Differently Because of Research |
| Unit 3: Argument and Advocacy: Researching Debatable Issues |
| Session 1: Argument Intensive |
| Session 2: Organizing an Ethical Research Life to Investigate an Issue |
| Session 3: Letting Nonfiction Reading on an Issue Spur Flash-Debates |
| Session 4: Mining Texts for Relevant Information |
| Session 5: Strengthening Club Work |
| Session 6: Readers Think and Wonder as They Read |
| Session 7: Summarizing to Hold On to What Is Most Essential |
| Session 8: “Arguing to Learn” |
| Session 9: Moving Beyond Considering One Debatable Question |
| Session 10: Raising the Level of Annotating Texts |
| Session 11: Reaching to Tackle More Difficult Texts |
| Session 12: Who Said What?: Studying Perspective |
| Session 13: Considering Craft |
| Session 14: Evaluating Arguments |
| Session 15: Day of Shared Learning |
| Session 16: Diving into New Research with More Agency and Independence |
| Session 17: Letting Conversations Spark New Ideas |
| Session 18: Talking and Writing Analytically Across Sources |
| Session 19: Reading Nonfiction with the Lens of Power |
| Session 20: Advocacy |
| Session 21: Readers Take Their Researcher-Debating Selves into the World |
| Unit 4: Fantasy Book Clubs: The Magic of Themes and Symbols |
| Session 1: Researching the Setting |
| Session 2: Learning Alongside the Main Character |
| Session 3: Keeping Track of Problems that Multiply |
| Session 4: Suspending Judgment: Characters (and Places) Are Not Always What They Seem |
| Session 5: Reflecting on Learning and Raising the Level of Book Clubs |
| Session 6: Here Be Dragons: Thinking Metaphorically |
| Session 7: Readers Learn Real-Life Lessons from Fantastical Characters |
| Session 8 : Quests Can Be Internal as Well as External |
| Session 9: Comparing Themes in Fantasy and History |
| Session 10: Self-Assessing Using Learning Progressions |
| Session 11: Using Information to Better Understand Fantasy Stories |
| Session 12: Using Vocabulary Strategies to Figure Out Words |
| Session 13: Fantasy Characters Are Complex |
| Session 14: Investigating Symbolism |
| Session 15: Interpreting Allegories in Fantasy Stories |
| Session 16: Paying Attention to How Cultures are Portrayed in Stories |
| Session 17: Identifying Archetypes |
| Session 18: Reading Across Texts with Critical Lenses |
| Session 19: The Lessons We Learn from Reading Fantasy Can Lift Our Reading of Everything |
| Session 20: Happily Ever After: Celebrating Fantasy and Our Quest to be Ever Stronger |