A complete, no-prep novel study for Front Desk by Kelly Yang. Mia Tang is ten, two years in America, and running a motel's front desk. This unit takes your class through the whole book in seven weeks, with prompts that go well past "what happened."
What's included
60-page complete file: a 14-page teacher guide plus the full student booklet
Print-ready 46-page student booklet
6 keys, one per week, each with a shared class activity (Read the Fine Print, Ride the Roller Coaster, The Case File, The Hot Seat, The Letter Lab, New House Rules)
36 prompts across five lenses: Peephole, Other Side, Hot Seat, Show Not Tell and Sparkly Pencil. Students pick two a week.
5 trackers: Name Tag (identity), Who Gets Buzzed In? (prejudice), the Ledger (money), Mia's Letters (writing) and the Key Board (motifs)
Character profiles, organizers and a toolkit: hot seat builder, craft spotter, letter page, storyboard, interview and research planner
6 exit tickets, a 24-word thesaurus, and a Week 7 seminar with 6 final project choices
Single-point, project and seminar rubrics
Parent letter and a "Teaching with care" guide for the book's harder scenes
Good to know
Grades 4-7, aligned to the Ontario Language curriculum (2023)
Works with any edition: every reference uses chapter numbers, not page numbers
Linked PDF: every page number jumps to that page
