L3+Chick,+Jennifer

** COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, HEALTH AND REHABILITATION **
 * ** UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON **

** LESSON PLAN FORMAT **


 * __Teacher’s Name __****: **Ms. Chick **__Lesson #:__** 3 **__Facet:__** Application
 * __Grade Level __****: **11-12 **__Numbers of Days:__** 2
 * __Topic: __** Cultural Literature


 * __PART I: __**


 * __Objectives __**
 * Student will understand that ** different media sources provide a concrete base of understanding what culture is.

 **Student will know** critical details: setting, author's point of view, first v. third person, tone, voice, conflict, climax.

 **Student will be able to** create a multimedia resource center integrating their understanding of culture

 **Product:** Wikispace

Common Core Standards
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maine Learning Results (MLR) or Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Alignment __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Content Area: Reading

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level: 11-12

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Domain: Informational Text

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Standard: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media formats as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Rationale:** A variety of resources can help present the information in a reinforcing way for any type of learner.


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assessments __**
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Formative (Assessment for Learning) __**
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Section I – checking for understanding during instruction **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will use a blog entry to mention artifacts they'd like to find for their wikispace, being specific to include their reasoning for why they think each artifact is necessary.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Section II – timely feedback for products (self, peer, teacher)**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be responded to in an email with any questions or comments the teacher has about the content of the blog post and suggestions on how to improve or modify ideas to better suit the product. Students will be able to self-assess based on the teacher's comments and decide how to change their product to better suit the requirements.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Summative (Assessment of Learning): __**
 * __<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wikispace (90) __**<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Students will make a collection of resources that influence their thoughts on the culture on a shared wikispace. The sources should be inclusive of articles, videos, vocabulary and other artifacts that help enhance the meaning of what a culture is. The sources should be credible, and easily cited. Students should collaborate with the teacher and each other for decisions on the benefits of questionable artifacts. Every student should contribute at least one artifact to the wiki that they feel best helps them understand a specific culture, or culture as a whole. This should be done throughout the unit and students are expected to regularly check the wiki for updated information. This product will be graded using a checklist.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wikispaces are being used to see how well the students collect information and compile it, if the information used is the most useful, what types of media formats the information is found in, and how these ideas are used to help the student further their understanding of culture.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Integration __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Technology: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Content Areas:**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Social Studies:** Students are exploring the various ways in which people of today communicate with one another, and are assessing their effectiveness.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">A flow chart will be used to explain the sequence students will go through to create a multimedia resource.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Groupings __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Section I - Graphic Organizer & Cooperative Learning used during instruction **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Section II – Groups and Roles for Product**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will take a three-minute review to discuss their ideas for a sequence and will then share their ideas with the teacher in a blog.


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Differentiated Instruction __**
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">MI Strategies __**
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Verbal **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Students will find scholarly articles that comment on cultural similarities, or things that all cultures share.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Logical**: Students will find logical patterns on how multimedia resource centers should be organized.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Spatial**: Students will create or find symbols that explain culture as a whole or designated parts of culture.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Musical**: Students will find ways music expresses the cultural traits of the artist.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Naturalist**: Students will find pictures of landscapes that explain cultural similarities.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Intrapersonal**: Students will think about which forms of media has presented culture and how that has affected them.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Interpersonal**: Students will share one thing that they want the wikispace to contain.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Kinesthetic**: Students will use materials around them to help construct the Wikispace's physical form.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">All assignments are expected to be turned in on the due date, but, if for any reason, the assignment can't be turned in on time, students will be expected to talk to me about a plan regarding when it will be passed in. For homework, late work will not be counted against you, as long as the assignment is in at the end of the quarter. For projects, late work will result in loss of points unless an absence occurred preventing work turn in or other issues outside of the classroom. In this case, please speak with me and we will set up a time to review the project together. It should be noted that although smaller assignments are allowed to be late, due dates are there for a reason, and most assignments are due to keep you on track for the next class. For the wikispace assignment students will be expected to complete it before the final project.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Modifications/Accommodations __**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">From IEP’s ( Individual Education Plan), 504’s, ELLIDEP (English Language Learning Instructional Delivery Education Plan) //**//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I will review student’s IEP, 504 or ELLIDEP and make appropriate modifications and accommodations. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Plan for accommodating absent students: **

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students are using a wikispace to better understand one of the many ways to compile information in various media forms and organize it for themselves and others to use in a beneficial, sensible way. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gifted students will have similar expectations for finding information for the wikispace, but will be asked to look for material of a more advanced understanding of the content, whether that be college articles, or finding vocabulary that is more advanced, and yet still helpful for everyone. Also, gifted students will be encouraged to find information using media that they are less familiar with so as to broaden their range of technological understanding and comfort. Justification will be needed on any pieces chosen by any student, but advanced students will be expected to explain why this particular piece of media was challenging for them and more advanced than the expected material. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will also have the option to add a lot of flair to their wikispace. This will include adding visual effects to make the site aesthetically pleasing. This could also be making the sources into a story, focusing on one for the literary elements we’re exploring. For example, students have the option of making it a story that uses the sources as a description for their main character.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Extensions __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Type II technology: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gifted Students: **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">List all the items you need for the lesson. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">List all URL and describe. //
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Materials, Resources and Technology __**
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Laptop/charger
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journals/Notebooks
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lined paper
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writing utensils.
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">LCD projector
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Graphic Organizers print outs
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Review of how to complete a blog
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Review on how to edit wiki pages
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Review on how to search for worthwhile media, expectations for citing
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Backup plan: Journal response
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Source for Lesson Plan and Research __**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Flow chart

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This chart helps students explain their ideas for the organization of their wikispace media postings.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Three Minute Review

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm#activities]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This reviews how to lead and organize a three minute review session.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blog Entry

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Based off the idea of using written journals for assessment, this explains the benefits of using this technique.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Example of the Resource Wiki

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://krstudentsample.wikispaces.com/

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Showing this example will helps students create their own wiki resource pages and then link them to the class wikispace, ultimately making a combination of resources the whole class can use.


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">PART II: __**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Teaching and Learning Sequence __****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Describe the teaching and learning process using all of the information from part I of the lesson plan) **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Take all the components and synthesize into a script of what you are doing as the teacher and what the learners are doing throughout the lesson. Need to use all the WHERETO’s. (3-5 pages) //

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">On the first day students will be sitting in a perimeter so all are within view of the projector.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hook- Students will look at a multimedia project and will discuss the quality and the expectations of finding media resources for the class. (15 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be explained the product for this lesson and how it relates to the unit as a whole. (20 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students and teacher will discuss the critical details needed to complete the assignment, referring to all three novels, and will compare and contrast them using the projector and a table. (40 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be assigned the blog entry for homework. (5 mins)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">On the second day students will be sitting in clusters around outlet strips to work on research.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will get a more detailed look into what they are creating through the example resource center. (20 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will fill out a flow chart based on their blog entry and the teacher's comments and will go through a three minute review process to examine their reasoning. (25 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will use the remainder of class time setting up their wikispaces and, if time, researching their desired media. (35 mins)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this lesson students will understand how to research and organize a variety of media examples in a resource center that helps better define the importance of the background knowledge of the three novels being read. Students will be presented with the idea that different media sources provide a concrete base of understanding what culture is and that being fluent in different types of technology can help fit more job requirements, and help with career readiness. To provoke a better understanding of how this can be easily attained students will explore a multimedia project and will discuss the quality and expectations of finding media resources for their class. Students will be using various media resources to help analyze the effectiveness of relation of information, to better understand the background of the cultural literature, and to help analyze the various literary elements of the cultural literature. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Where, Why, What, Hook Tailors:** //Verbal, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Naturalist, Logical//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will discuss the various literary elements and how those, combined with media create a better understanding of culture. Because students will not be finished all of the novels it is obvious that not all of the elements will be discussed, but students will be expected to fill in the information in a chart the teacher will start with the entire class. Students will start by describing the basics of each novel; what view it's written in, the author's stance on the situation, the tone and how that supports the author or the characters, the conflict, the climax, the setting and the voice. Students will compare whether or not certain elements are similar in all stories, like perhaps the tone, or the voice. Students will use these elements to think about what content they would like to find for their resource wikispace. In order to express these ideas the student will write a blog entry in which the teacher will read before the next class and reply with helpful comments or guiding questions to help with the organization and research. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Equip, Explore, Rethink, Revise, Tailors:** //Verbal, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Logical, Naturalist// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will start the next class by reviewing an example of a resource center. The teacher will review the expectations with the students and will hand out the checklist for the assignment. Students will then access their email and review the comments and questions from the teacher on their blog post. They will be given a flow chart graphic organizer and will be asked to fill out a rough example of how they would organize their various choices for media and why. Students will understand that this is just to check understanding of the importance of organization in a resource center, especially since their peers will have access. After finishing their organizer students will send a copy to the teacher for approval. Students will have the opportunity to change their ideas on their graphic organizer and will not be expected to resubmit. The expectation is that students will use their analytical skills of media to find what fits their resource page. It is likely that students won't find good resources for all of their desired items, and they are expected to adjust for any differences from their outlines. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Explore, Experience, Revise, Refine, Tailors:** //Verbal, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Naturalist, Logical//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be assessing themselves on the quality of their decisions for resources, as well as their organization as they find them. They will also be assessed by teacher check-ins through the blog and graphic organizer. Self-assessments will be guided with questions and comments from the teacher check-ins, and each student will have the option of meeting with the teacher as often as needed to feel prepared for the final wikispace product. Wikispaces are expected to be created on an individual basis with a regard to peers. Students will be working on gathering information in clusters and are encouraged to share websites, searching techniques, and other strategies, but not specific media sources. Wikispaces are supposed to reflect each student's curiosity towards the cultural literature and the process they went through to help gain a better understanding. Because this is an assignment based on personal views, each student is expected to have their own work. For that reason, students will not be allowed to view each other's wikis until everyone is finished. Through this process each student will develop a more personalized understanding of culture and is expected to have resources that reflect those ideas. Students are being assessed through a checklist by the teacher on their final product and will have multiple check-ins as they plan their wikis. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Evaluate, Tailors:** //Intrapersonal, Verbal, Interpersonal, Naturalist, Logical//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will know….. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Develop detailed content notes so a substitute or a colleague can teach your lesson. (2-3 pages) // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">For examples of appropriate media to add to the wikipage. Discuss the difference between appropriateness and quality and make sure both are met. Use the examples to assess quality and give the students a better understanding of what good examples should look like. Ultimately let them decide why these may not be the greatest. Encourage them to find better examples.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Content Notes __**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Video:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This video helps explain the stereotypes we have on Muslims.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Article:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This article helps explain stereotypes in Afghani culture.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Informative Website:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This website is a wealth of information on all aspects of Afghani culture.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reviewing Information:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blog Entry: Students will be reminded that this blog entry should include their best written or oral work, should be commented on with what they'd like to change, if anything comes to mind, should be posted by 6:00 pm before the next class, and that they should be answering the prompt of what pieces they'd like to include in their wikispace and why.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Creating/Editing a wikipage:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will click on their log-in name, and then proceed to the upper right corner and click on the button create a new wikispace. All spaces should be personal. In order to edit pages students will need to click the edit this page button. The first edit made should be to add a page and then link to the class wiki so that students can easily refer back and forth. Students should also send the URL of their site to the teacher in an email so that their wikis can be accessed by the entire class, but only that one student has the power to edit their content, much like the blogs.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students won’t be given many expectations with the quality of their links (except gifted students). The main expectation is that students are finding sources that are the best suited for their personal expectations. They should be considerate and try to find sources that the other students will eventually be able to use. I expect that most of the sources to be easily cited, and of at least a 9th grade reading level. We’ll discuss in class the difference in reading levels, and students will be able to refer to the wiki for what things they need to easily cite a source.

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">List the items that need to be printed out for the lesson. //
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Flow Chart graphic organizer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Checklist for wikispace
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maine Standards for Initial Teacher Certification and Rationale __**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Standard 3 – Demonstrates a knowledge of the diverse ways in which students learn and develop by providing learning opportunities that support their intellectual, physical, emotional, social, and cultural development. //**
 * //__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Learning Styles __//**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Clipboard learners are being supported in this lesson through the structure in a variety of techniques. They will be supported by the use of graphic organizers, like the flow chart, and the checklists of things they need to write a blog, and for the wikispace. The blog posts will also have a certain process involved that uses titling, ordered writing, and labeling to keep structure and help support student understanding. Students will also be able to refer to and review the agenda for each day by viewing the wiki. All objectives of the lesson will be explained briefly at the beginning of class, more in depth as the lesson is happening, reviewed at the end, and the objectives for next class or the following classes will be mentioned at the end of every class.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Clipboard: //**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Because students are being given a little freedom on utilizing their learning styles and are given graphic organizers to help them support their thinking, microscope students will be allowed to go into as much depth as they wish with each activity. These learners will also be supported when asked to analyze the similarities and differences between the literary elements of each of the pieces of literature, and synthesizing their personal ideas of each into their wikispaces. They will be working to uncover what they already know about topics, and analyzing how they plan on learning more about things they haven't mastered. Students will also be involved in multiple types of discussions and will be encouraged to analyze and record what happens during these to help develop their own personal understanding of the topic.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Microscope: //**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students of this learning style are being most in this lesson, because multiple check-ins are encouraged, and the activities and products are designed to help guide the students with as much help as they need. Everything, even the criticism given, will be light and helpful. All assignments will either be without grading or allow the student to do several drafts before a grade will be determined. Students are engaging in helpful, varied, but supportive groups to find ways to work together on the new material, like the clusters they will be researching in, or the discussions between the whole class. The grouping for this activity will be random, based on a difference of learning styles between the students.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Puppy: //**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beach ball learners will thrive in this lesson because students are expected to tailor their assignment to their personal learning goals. The most obvious reason is because they are given a variety of resources to work with for their blog posting, and are encouraged to learn of and use their preferred learning styles. Students are also going to be given opportunities to contribute as much information or as little information as they'd like to their blog, as long as they meet the basic requirements. Students will be working with their personal understandings and will get to use them through a variety of fast paced learning activities, like the round robin brainstorming session.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beach Ball: //**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be using a variety of media and learning how to organize, present and use it in helpful ways. Students have opportunities to work on their own and to work in groups, especially with those of different learning styles and strategies than their own. There will be some variety in learning techniques, multiple pieces of information to analyze, a supportive and accepting atmosphere, and a structured process to several parts of the lesson. Overall the activities together create a helpful environment for all learning types.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rationale: //**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will know <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> critical details: setting, author's point of view, first v. third person, tone, voice, conflict, climax and will analyze them more through a variety of media sources.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Standard 4 - Plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, curriculum goals, and learning and development theory. //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Content Knowledge: //**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Common Core Standards <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Content Area: Reading <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level: 11-12 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Domain: Informational Text <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Standard: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media formats as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.//
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">MLR or CCSS: //**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The ability to research, collect, justify and present various media sources will create a better understanding for each student of what their personal understanding is of culture and cultural literature.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be able to create a multimedia resource center integrating their understanding of culture. This will be a resource that will come more into play during the final product of the unit, and will help set students up with the materials they need, while giving them an opportunity to analyze the literature in a non-conventional format.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Facet: //**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rationale: //**<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This lesson is showing a clear understanding of the standard because the choice of the actual standard itself was made by changing the perception of what the definition of information texts really are. This entire unit is about changing perceptions of cultural material, whether it be through literature or vocabulary. In this part of the unit, students are using their analytic skills of media from the previous lesson and their understanding of literary elements to support the standards reasoning that a variety of resources increases understanding.


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Standard 5 - Understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies and appropriate technology to meet students’ needs. //**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">MI Strategies: //**
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Verbal **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Students will find scholarly articles that comment on cultural similarities, or things that all cultures share.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Logical**: Students will find logical patterns on how multimedia resource centers should be organized.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Spatial**: Students will create or find symbols that explain culture as a whole or designated parts of culture.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Musical**: Students will find ways music expresses the cultural traits of the artist.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Naturalist**: Students will find pictures of landscapes that explain cultural similarities.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Intrapersonal**: Students will think about which forms of media has presented culture and how that has affected them.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Interpersonal**: Students will share one thing that they want the wikispace to contain.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Kinesthetic**: Students will use materials around them to help construct the wikispace's physical form.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wikispaces are a creative way for students to learn how to present information. There isn't much formatting or technological used in creating a wikispace and they don't take long to produce. They are also easily edited and shared, which is ideal as the students are using their peers through support in this lesson. Because this is a more individualized product the students will be working a lot with their own personal thoughts and ideas. Every learner will be able to have strengths in building a wikispace from organization, to the depth of the material, to the originality of the design. Students will be adding on this if they feel needed after they submit it for evaluation and will be referring to their own and their peers for their final product at the end of the unit.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Type II Technology: //**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Each activity is designed to support various learners. Although this lesson mainly targets intrapersonal learners, students are also encouraged to use the support of their peers in creating their product, but will be where the line is drawn between being supportive and giving away ideas. Students of all learning types will have the opportunity to tailor these activities to their personal needs because the point of the product is to focus on the individual student's interest.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rationale: //**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students are using blog entries, again, as a way for recording their personal ideas. Teachers will be able to consistently assess their growth throughout the unit and provide feedback and references as needed. Students will also be using a flow chart as means of an outline for how their wikispace will be designed and will be asked to justify why that organization is the best suited for their presentation. This justification process helps the students also individually assess the pieces of media in their resource centers and decide which pieces are quality sources. Any concerns from the teacher about quality will be addressed, and as long as the student can justify their choices, their work will be approved.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Standard 8 - Understands and uses a variety of formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and support the development of the learner. //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Formative: //**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Summative: //**
 * __<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wikispace (90) __**<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">: Students will make a collection of resources that influence their thoughts on the culture on a shared wikispace. The sources should be inclusive of articles, videos, vocabulary and other artifacts that help enhance the meaning of what a culture is. The sources should be credible, and easily cited. Students should collaborate with the teacher and each other for decisions on the benefits of questionable artifacts. Every student should contribute at least one artifact to the wiki that they feel best helps them understand a specific culture, or culture as a whole. This should be done throughout the unit and students are expected to regularly check the wiki for updated information. This product will be graded using a checklist.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Formative and summative assessment are meshed together in this lesson to create a better understanding of the unit as a whole, and the specific activities and media the students are working with in this lesson. The activities are being used as a base to help build the rest of the unit on, so assessing and making sure that everyone is at a similar point will help the teacher know how to continue through the rest of the lesson. Because students are given some choices in the way they are presenting their information, these assessments also help the teacher better understand their students individually. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> || ||   || About · Blog · [|Pricing] · Privacy · Terms · [|**Support**] · [|**Upgrade**] Contributions to http://edu221spring11class.wikispaces.com are licensed under a [|Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License]. Portions not contributed by visitors are Copyright 2011 Tangient LLC.
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