Students will engage in personal interviews with classmates to uncover diverse formative memories, then analyze these insights against themes from assigned texts to build empathy and understanding as a foundation for their narrative projects.

Students will identify and articulate their 'north star' by defining how the concept of 'home' and the texts they've engaged with inform their personal narratives; this will lay the groundwork for reflecting on and integrating literary insights into their blueprint projects.

Students will work alongside peers, teachers, and community partners over two days to brainstorm and co-design creative concepts for their 'House That Built Me' blueprints, merging personal insights, historical contexts, and thematic connections from literary texts to expand the project's possibilities and enrich their narratives.

Students will draft a cohesive project outline by sketching potential outlines for their visual blueprints and written narratives, ensuring the purposeful integration of text analysis, historical context, and personal reflections related to the concept of home.

Students will conduct a peer-led evaluation session where they share their projects with classmates, offering feedback on the integration of textual insights and personal experiences, and testing the emotional impact and narrative clarity of their work-in-progress blueprints.

Students will participate in peer and self-assessment workshops where they share project drafts, receive targeted feedback using established critique protocols, and refine their designs with an emphasis on integrating literary themes, ensuring their narratives and blueprints intertwine effectively with their personal experiences and the texts studied in the unit.

Students will conduct a reflective session where they examine the impact of their decisions throughout the project, connect their narratives with insights from literary texts analyzed in previous phases, and predict how these reflections and revelations will influence their future personal and academic endeavors.