1. The Seven-Minute Year Plan
Context Unit Title Unit Type Major Integrated
Resource (MIR)
Personal and
Philosophical
Social, Cultural,
and Historical
Imaginative
and Literary
Communicative
Environmental
and
Technological
Using the information found in your curriculum, take seven minutes to sketch
out a year plan. As you read those pages, be sure to
• attend to the recommended number and types of units
• refer to Table 4 which provides more detail including the focus of a unit
(e.g., personal, social studies, science, genre study, etc.) and the MIRs in
which the topics and themes are located.
The pages in each curriculum are as follows:
ELA 1 – pages 8 – 13, ELA 2 – pages 8 – 13, ELA 3 – pages 8 – 14, ELA 4 – pages 8 –
14, ELA 5 – pages 8 – 14.