Thematic+Unit+Resources

**THEMATIC UNIT RESOURCES **
Please use the materials provided to help with crafting your own unit. You may also add resources you think would be helpful to the whole class. Those specific to your own unit, you may post on your individual Thematic Unit wiki.


 * UNIT EXAMPLES AND MODELS **

//Note:// These PDF's are very long as students chose to do all lesson plans rather than minimum required. Printing not recommended.
 * //NCSU Student Examples//**


 * Fanatics, Dramatics, & Media Mayhem : A Thematic Unit focusing on Shakespeare's //A Midsummer Night's Dream// (Fall, 2007): [[file:Thompson_L_Thematic_Unit_F07.pdf]]


 * War & Loss in Western Europe (Fall, 2006) //Note:// Lesson plans here are strong in content, but would benefit from greater detail.[[file:LB_Thematic_Unit_Complete_F06.pdf]]

> //Note:// Part 1 includes an introductory week that precedes the thematic unit. The thematic unit begins on p. 28 and continues through parts 2-4. Also, there is an example of a learning stations activity included in Part 1, pp. 23-25. .
 * //Other Student Examples//**
 * Self-Identity (high school): Part 1[[file:EH_Thematic_Unit_SI_Part_1_of_4.pdf]], Part 2 [[file:EH_Thematic_Unit_SI_Part_2_of_4.pdf]] , Part 3 [[file:EH_Thematic_Unit_SI_Part_3_of_4.pdf]], Part 4 [[file:EH_Thematic_Unit_SI_Part_4_of_4.pdf]] (Spring, 1998)


 * //Textbook Examples//**


 * The Hero (Stern, 1995): [[file:Stern_Ch9_The_Hero_Thematic_Unit.pdf]]


 * Gender, Power, Identity (high school): Part 1 [[file:Stern_Ch5_GenderPowerIdentity_Thematic_Unit_1of2.pdf]], Part 2 [[file:Stern_Ch5_GenderPowerIdentity_Thematic_Unit_2of2.pdf]] (Stern, 1995)


 * MATERIALS / RESOURCES MENTIONED AS PART OF DR. Y'S MODEL UNIT IN CLASS **


 * [|Facing History and Ourselves]


 * [|Teaching Tolerance]: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center


 * [|PBS Frontline's A Class Divided]: Jane Elliott's 1968 Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes Experiment


 * CHAPTERS / ARTICLES **


 * "Themes" by Tchudi & Lafer: [[file:Tchudi_and_Mitchell_Create_Instruct_Units_Ch_3.pdf]]


 * "Creating Instructional Units" by Tchudi & Mitchell: [[file:Tchudi_and_Mitchell_Create_Instruct_Units_Ch_3.pdf]]


 * Tchudi & Mitchell "Organizing the Literature Program": [[file:T_and_M_Org_Lit_excerpt.pdf]]


 * WEBSITES **


 * Thematic Units website: http://www.nvo.com/ecnewletter/thematicunits/


 * TEXTS **


 * William Glasser's //Control Theory//