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Fishtank ELA
Fishtank ELA is a knowledge-building, comprehensive K-12 English Language Arts curriculum focused on diverse, relevant and rigorous texts. In every unit students improve their reading comprehension, writing, critical thinking and communication skills while building their knowledge of themselves and the world around them.
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- Unit 1 – Welcome to School
- Unit 2 – Noticing Patterns in Stories
- Unit 3 – Celebrating Fall
- Unit 4 – Falling in Love with Authors and Illustrators
- Unit 5 – Winter Wonderland
- Unit 6 – What is Justice?
- Unit 7 – Exploring Life Cycles
- Unit 8 – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Unit 1 – Being a Good Friend
- Unit 2 – Folktales Around the World
- Unit 3 – Amazing Animals
- Unit 4 – Love Makes a Family
- Unit 5 – Inspiring Artists and Musicians
- Alt Unit 3 – The Seven Continents
- Alt Unit 4 – The Power of Reading
- Alt Unit 4 – Making Old Stories New
- Alt Unit 5 – Movements for Equality
- Alt Unit 5 – Ancient Egypt
- Unit 1 – Cinderella Around the World
- Unit 2 – Exploring Habitats
- Unit 3 – Belonging and Friendship: Pinky and Rex
- Unit 4 – Stories of Immigration
- Unit 5 – Finding Your Power: Freddie Ramos
- Alt Unit 2 – Awesome Insects
- Alt Unit 3 – Lessons from Anansi the Spider
- Alt Unit 4 – Inside the Human Body
- Alt Unit 4 – People Who Changed the World
- Alt Unit 5 – Learning From Mistakes: Keena Ford
- Unit 1 – Defining Identity: Dyamonde Daniel and My Name is María Isabel
- Unit 2 – Rediscovering Thanksgiving: Fact vs. Fiction
- Unit 3 – Passing Down Wisdom: Hispanic and African American Folktales
- Unit 4 – Understanding the Animal Kingdom
- Unit 5 – Embracing Difference: The Hundred Dresses and Garvey’s Choice
- Alt Unit 2 – Exploring Ancient Civilizations: Rome
- Alt Unit 3 – Discovering Mythology: Roman Myths
- Alt Unit 2 or 3 – Honoring Indigenous Peoples
- Alt Unit 5 – The Power of Friendship: Charlotte’s Web
- Unit 1 – Finding Fortune: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Unit 2 – Preparing for the Worst: Natural Disasters
- Unit 3 – Interpreting Perspectives: Greek Myths
- Unit 4 – Believing in Yourself: The Wild Book
- Unit 5 – Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
- Alt Unit 1 – Taking a Stand: Shiloh
- Alt Unit 4 – Discovering Self: Bud, Not Buddy
- Alt Unit 5 – Examining Our History: American Revolution
- Alt Unit 5 – Politics and People: U.S. Government
- Unit 1 – Building Community: Seedfolks
- Unit 2 – Exploring Human Rights: The Breadwinner
- Unit 3 – Protecting the Earth: Plastic Pollution
- Unit 4 – Young Heroes: Children of the Civil Rights Movement
- Unit 5 – Friendship Across Boundaries: Return to Sender
- Alt Unit 1 – A Single Shard
- Alt Unit 4 – Exploring Mars: Spirit and Opportunity
- Alt Unit 5 – Belonging to a Movement: One Crazy Summer
- Alt Unit 5 – Seeking Truth: A Wrinkle in Time
- Unit 1 – Finding Your Way: The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
- Unit 2 – Challenging Authority: The Giver
- Unit 3 – Expressing Yourself: Women in the Arts
- Unit 4 – Finding Connection: The Outsiders
- Unit 5 – Fleeing Conflict: Refugee & The Unwanted
- Unit 1 – Longing to Belong: Poems, Essays, and Short Stories
- Unit 2 – Fighting Injustice: Uprising & Flesh and Blood So Cheap
- Unit 3 – Pursuing Dreams: A Raisin in the Sun
- Unit 4 – Finding Home: The House on Mango Street
- Unit 5 – Exploring Identity: American Born Chinese
- Unit 1 – Facing Prejudice: All American Boys
- Unit 2 – Encountering Evil: Night
- Unit 3 – Abusing Power: Animal Farm and Wicked History
- Unit 4 – Surviving Repression: Persepolis
- Unit 1 – Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Texts
- Unit 2 – You Laugh But It’s True: Humor and Institutional Racism in Born a Crime
- Unit 3 – Power, Justice, and Culpability: Of Mice and Men and The Central Park Five
- Unit 4 – ¡Viva Las Mariposas! Voice and Agency in In the Time of the Butterflies
- Unit 5 – Gender and Power in Taming of the Shrew
- Alt Unit 5 – Romeo and Juliet
- Unit 1 – “If This Goes On…” Technology, Truth, and Happiness in Fahrenheit 451
- Unit 2 – Flowers of Freedom: Voice, Defiance, and Coming of Age in Purple Hibiscus
- Unit 3 – “I was born to join in love, not hate—that is my nature.”: Civil Disobedience in Antigone
- Unit 4 – Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Magical Realism in Latin American Literature
- Unit 5 – Reading as Resistance: Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Unit 2 – The Dream that Recedes Before Us: The Past and The American Dream in The Great Gatsby
- Unit 3 – Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Unit 4 – A Streetcar Named Desire
- Unit 5 – There, There
- Unit 1 – “To Be or Not To Be” and other Questions: Making Meaning of Life and Hamlet
- Unit 2 – Klara and the Sun
- Unit 3 – Sula
- Unit 4 – Exit West
- Unit 5 – Fun Home