Students will launch an investigation into how language and images communicate power, resistance, and survivor experience, establish independent reading routines for The Complete Maus, and begin individual vocabulary, evidence, and inquiry records.

Students will strengthen independent reading routines as they annotate The Complete Maus, investigate morphemes and visual language, develop a focused research question, evaluate possible sources, and create an individual source-and-method plan. Unassigned peer discussions and a teacher conference will help each student test and revise decisions before beginning evidence collection.

Students will strengthen independent reading habits while gathering and checking traceable evidence from The Complete Maus and credible historical and contemporary sources. They will analyze vocabulary and morphemes, monitor comprehension, confer with the teacher, exchange feedback without assigned group roles, and revise their investigation records before a graded spelling-and-evidence checkpoint.

Students will independently analyze evidence, reread selected passages from The Complete Maus, develop warranted conclusions, and transform their findings into a visual essay or comic poster draft. They will use two rounds of peer feedback without assigned roles, focused teacher feedback, daily comprehension or morpheme checks, and a weekly spelling assessment to revise their writing, vocabulary analysis, and artwork.

Students will independently verify their reading evidence and vocabulary, rehearse and revise their presentations through peer feedback without assigned roles, and exhibit polished visual essays or comic poster sets. They will demonstrate morpheme and vocabulary acquisition, defend evidence-based conclusions, respond empathetically to questions, and reflect on growth in independent reading, historical understanding, writing, and art.