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| Unit 1: Personal Narrative: Crafting Powerful Life Stories |
| Session 1: Setting Up to Write |
| Session 2: Calling On All Strategies to Write Up a Storm |
| Session 3: Writing from Moments that Really Matter |
| Session 4: Telling the Story from the Narrator’s Point of View |
| Session 5: Reading Closely to Learn from Other Authors |
| Session 6: Taking Stock: Pausing to Assess and Set Goals |
| Session 7: Rehearsing Experimenting with Beginnings |
| Session 8: Flash-Drafting: Getting the Whole Story on the Page |
| Session 9: Using Writer’s Notebooks for Mindful, Goal-Driven Work |
| Session 10: Re-Angling and Rewriting to Convey What a Story is Really About |
| Session 11: Elaborating on Important Scenes and Adding New Ones from the Past |
| Session 12: Using All Available Resources to Aid with Final Touches |
| Session 13: Taking charge of the Writing Process |
| Session 14: Slowing Down and Stretching out the Story’s Problem |
| Session 15: Ending Stories in Meaningful Ways |
| Session 16: Editing Sentences for Rhythm and Meaning |
| Session 17: Publishing and Celebrating as a Community of Writers |
| Unit 2 – The Literary Essay |
| Session 1: Essay Boot Camp |
| Session 2: Growing Ideas from Details about Characters |
| Session 3: Writing to Discover what a Character Really Wants |
| Session 4: Crafting Claims |
| Session 5: Conveying Evidence: Summarizing, Storytelling, and Quoting |
| Session 6: Studying a Mentor Text to Construct Literary Essays |
| Session 7: Revising Essays to be Sure You Analyze as well as Cite Text Evidence |
| Session 8: Looking for Themes in the Trouble of a Text |
| Session 9: Drafting Using all that You Know |
| Session 10: First Impressions and Closing Remarks |
| Session 11: Quoting Texts |
| Session 12: Editing Inquiry Centers |
| Session 13: Building the Muscles to Compare and Contrast |
| Session 14: Comparing and Contrast Themes across Texts |
| Session 15: Applying what you Have Learned in the Past to Today’s Revision Work |
| Session 16: Identifying Run-Ons and Sentence Fragments |
| Session 17: Celebrating Literary Essays |
| Unit 3: Research-Based Information Writing |
| Session 1: Becoming Engaged with a Topic |
| Session 2: Reading for a Wide View of a Topic: Teen Activism |
| Session 3: Preparing to Write Informational Essay: Finding & Supporting Key Points |
| Session 4: Structure Sets You Free: Using Prior Knowledge to Flash-Draft Essays |
| Session 5: The Trail of Research: Pursuing Information and Focusing in on Topics |
| Session 6: Envisioning Structures to Plan an Information Book |
| Session 7: Constructing Texts with Solid Bricks of Information |
| Session 8: Gathering Specific Information and Creating Meaning |
| Session 9: Writing with Detail |
| Session 10: Lifting the Level of Sentence Complexity |
| Session 11: Using Text Features to Strengthen Writing |
| Session 12: Planning Ready-to-Go Chapters |
| Session 13: Quoting with a Purpose in Mind |
| Session 14: Celebrating with a Book Exhibit Tour |
| Session 15: Studying Digital Mentor Texts |
| Session 16: Revising to Fit Digital Formats: Determining Importance |
| Session 17: Pouring into Digital Forms… and Publishing |
| Session 18: Celebration: Presentations, Feedback, Reflection |