1	Ender’s Game—School, Lies, and Videogames By Michelle Page, UMM
2	Subject and Grade Level: Grade 10 General English Heterogeneous class with some special needs students, some gifted students
3	Essential and Unit Questions Essential Question: Does the end ever justify the means? Unit Questions: Is violence ever productive? Is deception ever justified? What are the qualities of a good leader? How do competing philosophies sometimes work together? How do people deal with loneliness?
4	State Standards Addressed: I.B.5. Summarize and paraphrase main idea and supporting details. I.B.7. Make inferences and draw conclusions based on explicit and implied information from texts. I.B.9. Synthesize information from multiple selections in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and form interpretations. I.D.1. Read, analyze and evaluate traditional, classical and contemporary works of literary merit from American literature. I.D.15. Read from and respond to a variety of fiction, poetic and nonfiction texts of increasing complexity for personal enjoyment. III.A.2. Deliver a speech in a logical manner using grammatically correct language, including vocabulary appropriate to the topic, audience and purpose.
5	Learning Objectives and Activities: Using examples from real life and from the novel, students will deliver a speech wherein they give a personalized response to one of the following questions: “Is violence ever productive?” or “Is deception ever justified?” Students will deliver an aesthetic response to the novel Ender’s Game. After reading the novel Ender’s Game, students will author a paper analyzing the main themes of the novel by comparing key themes to today’s American government. Students will identify key elements of science fiction and identify at least one way in which Ender’s Game is typical and one way in which it is atypical.