This is the first week of an English language arts unit on picture books that examines the life experiences of authors and how it impacts their work.

It is designed for 8th grade ELA students in a HyFlex/HiFlex program. Students are able to participate in the active portion of the lessons in-person, online synchronously or online asynchronously. The active class time portion of each lesson is 12 minutes long. Students are expected to devote an additional 48 minutes to work outside of class for each lesson.

The lessons satisfy NYS 8th Grade ELA Learning Standards and correlate with the NYS Learning Standards for Social Studies 8th Grade Framework.