Wild Wonder (grades 6-9)
100 hours
 
Nature & Narrative ELA is a semester long course that utilizes the theme of nature and survival to engage students in english language arts. This course offers extensive writing instruction for both non fiction and fiction works. Students will feel empowered and see significant growth in writing ability and confidence.
 
Resources included in this course: 
 
🌲 Yeti Guided Research & Essay Project
🌲 Wild Words | Gary Paulsen
📖 Recommend Novel - Hatchet
🌲 Wild Words | Writing Dialogue
🌲 My Side of the Mountain Book Study
📖 Required Novel - My Side of the Mountain
🌲 Wild Words | Jean Craighead George
🌲 Wild Words | Building Better Sentences
🌲 Survival Escape Room
 
Though each of these resources is available individually from WHC, this course includes a downloadable folder with all of the resources PLUS a full course organizer including:
 
✅ How To Use This Course Instructions
✅ Course Map - order and timeline
✅ Course Overview
✅ Skills Checklist (great for use with reporting)
✅ Activities Checklist
✅ Grade Book pages for each unit
✅ Assessment Package including custom rubrics
 
This course is designed to take approximately 100 hours (though time will vary based on the student).
 
Everything you need (besides the novels) is included in this course and thus it’s about as open and go as it comes!
 
These books, themes and authors are loved by millions and in 20 years of teaching middle school I haven’t met a kid or adult who didn’t love these books! This course is sure to keep attention and foster engagement. 
 
Digital PDF. 
No refunds as links are sent immediately at purchase. 
Download file within 30 days before link expiry. ALSO - use the downloaded file to download your actual folder of resources (it's too large for the download link).