...Instructional Unit Plan Crystal McClain MTE 539/Curriculum Constructs and Assessment Secondary Methods June 27, 2011 Rachel Wurmlinger, Facilitator Instructional Unit Plan 1. Overview of Unit A. Title – 20th Century Socialite: The Great Gatsby B. Focus – English/Language Arts; 11th grade (Honors): The focus of this unit is to introduce students to the characteristics and elements of contemporary American literature and to allow students to relate the themes of the novel, The Great Gatsby, in a meaningful way to increase understanding. C. Length – 1.25 instructional weeks (six 50-minute sessions) D. Goals – Students will understand that American literature contains unique and specific elements by reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Also, students will recognize themes in Fitzgerald’s work by examining modern pop cultural products (multimedia samples, newspaper articles, music videos, etc.). 2. Lesson Plans 1-5 Lesson Plan #1 Title: The American Novel Time: 50-minute session Standards: Georgia Performance Standards: ELA11LSV1 (indicators a-h)—Actively participates in whole group verbal interactions. ELA11LSV2 (b)—Analyzes techniques used in media messages for a particular audience and evaluates effectiveness. Objectives: 1. After watching an introductory presentation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (TGG), students will be able to identify the characteristics of the American novel with...
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...Michael Blumenthal's essay, A Letter to My Students, illustrates the way a teacher’s love for his or her’s students hinders the students rather than helps the students. The teacher’s “love” leads to coddling that protects a student from constructive criticism which leads to deceit of the quality of a student’s work. Teachers, and students alike, should expect respect rather than love within a class to keep a professional environment that will better help the students and their work. It is a teacher’s job to teach and better students, and when a teacher loves their students it creates a deceitfulness that protects their students from needed criticism. As Blumenthal said, it would be like being “handed a seat in the orchestra, endowed with a...
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...reading foreign language books and comic books , this phenomenon will never happen in my life. Maybe he was smart and arrogant, but without the atmoshere of his family and his pervenance spirit ,he won't became such a successful people. His father like reading books and brought them from the pawnshops and secondhand and the books were so many that were stacked in crazy piles in the bathroom, bedroom and living room. He use every moments to read books such as lunch time, in the car when his family traveled, in shopping malls and so on. He also have a goodness heart and must be very patriotic. Because he always worried about the future of the Indian children and visit schools and teach creative writing to them. what;s more, although the children refuse and resist him, he never give up to save their lives. I don' t really like the Indian thinking. They hate the smart Indian people and expected to be stupid. Like what he said in the book the Indian children were monosyllabic in front of the non-Indian teachers, but after come home they were talking about complicated stories and jokes at the dinner table. How could they do this ? To be smart is everyone want and they just want to be stupid. In comic book panel Alexie remembers Superman breaks through a door and the brown door shatters into many pieces. As I think it is important to remember this detail at the very end of the essay is because Alexie learned how to read from this...
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...Our Time and Our Secret greatly emphasize that how someone is raised and the events that happen in his or her life can shape who they are and what decisions they make. For example, Himmler’s strict and oppressive childhood led him to become a heartless Nazi leader in the massacre of Jews and Robby’s grief over the death of his closest friend led him to become a thief and a murderer who will spend the rest of his life paying for his crimes .The “Banking” Concept of Education, although not a narrative like the other two passages, does explain that education plays a large role in students’ life experiences. Freire believes that the “problem-posing” method of education will be more effective in helping students tackle real-life situations to make...
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...success in life? How to judge a person is intelligent? People tend to think a person who is intelligent is more likely possess higher IQ. A smart child often be considered to be one has an excellent achievement at school. Does this mean this child will have a successful future? Only have intelligence is difficult to get succeed, the educational experiences, the personality, the family background and so on are influent one to get succeed. This essay will develop this topic and discuss the question of recognizing an intelligence person by how and how much does this predict success in one’s life. How to define intelligence? People used to think that an intelligent person is more likely logical. A good student is often considered good at doing mathematics and computer. However, according to Gardner’s Theory (Amy C. Brualdi). Intelligence has seven forms, which are : Logical-Mathematical Intelligence, Linguistic Intelligence, Spatial Intelligence, Musical Intelligence, Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence ,The Personal Intelligences. Logical-mathematical Intelligence people thinking in a logical way, and suit for science and mathematics. Linguistic Intelligent people are who have a strong ability to learn language, to use language to express their emotion and to use language flexibly. Spatial Intelligence is a ability to solve problems in a creative and imaging way. Musical Intelligent people are more sensitive on pitches, tones and rhythms. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligent people could...
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...For my Genius Hour project my topic is about school. Since the beginning of their life people asked the question that made everyone think. That is “why we have to go to school” which everyone thought once in their lives. I changed that into “who created school” because that is basically the same thing. This has been on my mind the past few weeks since school have started again and more work than ever. It have always wondered how the world would be like if we did not have to go to school. They teach you so many things you might not use like how to type an essay in MLA format. As a chemist, do I need to write an essay about my findings. All I need to do is write notes on my experiments. If you do have to do a speech about your finding, make it up as you go. If you were smart you can make up an essay in a few minutes. I can rant on for hours talking about all the ways I don’t use all the stuff we do in school but now we would continue to my findings....
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...forms analytical intelligence, creative intelligences, and practical intelligence. Analytical intelligence is the way that we study, evaluate, relate, and distinction. Creative intelligence is the way that we are able to create, design, invent, and imagine. Practical intelligence is the way that we are able to apply, implement and how we put these ideas into practice. The theory that is best for determining intelligence would be Gardner’s eight frames of mind the reason why is that Gardner says that everyone has all eight of this intelligence to some kind of degree. Gardner’s eight frames of mind would be verbal, mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. Gardner seems to think that we learn and process information in different from someone else. Students learn better when they learn in their stronger intelligences. Amy believes that she possess many different types of intelligences according to Gardner’s the first one would be verbal. Amy can prompt sense to things when it is important to her. The second one would be interpersonal this means that she has the capacity to recognize and relate successfully with others. The third one would be intrapersonal this being able to know oneself. Some of the intelligences that she has according to Sternberg would be to have practical intelligence. One of the pros of using Sternberg’s and Gardner’s of using the multiple of approaches by getting teachers to come up with different approaches...
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...Meeting the needs of gifted learners poses a challenge for most educators, thus gifted leaners need to be identified and nurtured for the benefit of gifted learners, educators and the community at large. This essay is going to examine 3 blanket characteristics of a gifted learner and suggest strategies to enhance giftedness in teaching and learning process. Eric (1985) groups characteristics of gifted learners into general behavioural, learning and creative features. A variety of approaches can be used to meet the needs of gifted learners in the classroom. The teacher or educator has the following our areas when developing the curriculum: * The content of the curriculum subject * The processes that engage the students * The products of their studies * The learning environment Definition of terms Giftedness Definition 1: Giftedness is ‘a synchronous development’ in which advanced cognitive abilities and heightened intensity combine to create inner experiences and awareness that are qualitatively different from the norm. This asynchrony increases with higher intellectual capacity. The uniqueness of the gifted renders them particularly vulnerable and requires modifications in parenting, teaching and counselling in order for them to develop optically (Columbus Group, 1991) Definition 2: Giftedness is the possession and use of untrained and spontaneously expressed natural abilities (called aptitudes or gifts) in at least one ability domain to a degree that places...
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...Principles of Learning and Teaching STUDENTS AS LEARNERS – 35% THEORISTS LEV VYGOTSKY http://facultyweb.cortland.edu/andersmd/VYG/ VYG.HTML JEROME BRUNER http://tip.psychology.org/bruner.ht ml JOHN DEWEY http://www.infed.org/thinkers/e t-dewey.htm Importance of CULTURE humans use of tools and symbols to learn – culture dictates what we learn and how • Higher and Lower mental functions – elementary (or lower) functions gradually transform to HMF through culture • Central ROLE OF LANGUAGE: Language is made possible because of our culture (tools and symbols). The learning of language (or signs) is brought about by social processes, and language or signs ultimately make thought possible. Three stages in the development of speech a. Social speech – speech to control the behavior of others b. Egocentric speech – three to seven year olds – talking to themselves to learn c. Inner speech – soundless speech – thinking in our head • ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT: The discrepancy between a child's mental age [indicated by the static test] and the level he reaches in solving problems with assistance is the zone of his proximal development. _________________________________ ABRAHAM MASLOW http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/m aslow.html HEIRARCY OF NEEDS • Physiological needs • Safety needs • Belonging needs • Esteem needs • Self-actualization • Principles: learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge – DISCOVERY...
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...didn’t push me to do better, and I didn’t push them either. We were all destined for greatness though; we just didn’t see it yet. I got more than what I bargained for when it came time to have college tours, take exams, do entrance test, and turn in my transcripts. What I didn’t know was the schools I wanted to attend, needed more than what I had to offer, because my grades didn’t cut it. My test scores were average, and my cumulative GPA didn’t meet the requirements. IV. My teachers tried, I admit I gave them a hard time. I can admit that they were just trying to convince me to show what I can do. I was more focused on not being the geek, the smart girl, and the nerdy type. So I focused on being the class clown and only doing enough work so that I can pass instead of doing enough work so I can pass and be at the head of the class. In a classroom, some students are either very bright, intelligent, or creative. As well as students who are just average or dull or even very dull. My teacher noticed I was...
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...Technology: Assistance or Hindrance I picked my 11 year old from the first day of 6th grade. When I was going through his backpack to sign all the papers that was sent home, I noticed an IPAD in it. I know my son does not have an IPAD, so I asked him about it. He told me the IPAD was issued to him by his teacher for all of his e-textbooks. What happened to lugging around a backpack full of huge textbooks? From smart boards, IPADs, wireless internet, and many other high tech gadgets that our public schools have, technology has changed dramatically since I graduated in May of 1998. I believe the exponential growth in technology in education is causing our students to be more distracted during class, causing school budgets to be overwhelmed, and it is causing students to loose traditional skills. First, technology in education is causing our students to be more distracted in class. Technology creates a need to multitask. Studies have shown that multitasking when learning something new or working on a project distracts from complete learning. (Study Dog, 2012) When students are using their cellphones, IPADs, or laptops in class, are they actually using them for note taking, researching topics, or other educational activities? According to a report conducted by the Chronicle of Higher Education indicates that students taking laptops to classrooms might appear to be taking notes, but actually were doing activities unrelated to class work such as sending emails or using the...
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...the best year in North Carolina's history with a graduation rate of “85.4 percent” (NC State Board of Education). The title of the article is “Hidden Intellectualism” from the book Clueless in Academe; How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind by Gerald Graff. The book was written in 2003. The purpose of this text is to teach people that people can be taught to use academic methods and thoughts for items in the domain of “street smarts” Graff tries to tell readers about different intelligence and how they could be reached. Often they are deemed street smart and told and treated as if it is incompatible with academics. To overcome this he tells about his experiences bridging both and how others can do this. In “Hidden Intellectualism”graff uses a unique style of writing to show how we can write about subjects usually considered non-intellectual in an academic way. he does this by mixing a professional style of writing with a simple and easy to understand style of writing using reminders of childhood and modern language. The book that the essay is from was released short after the passing of “No Child Left Behind”. This legislation was an attempt to...
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...Teaching guide : Lesson ONE Contains : Lesson Plan #1a: What Is Money and Why Do We Need It? Lesson Plan #1b: The Many Forms of Money Lesson Plan #1c: Plastic Payment Lesson Plan #1d: Smart Cards Lesson Plan #1e: Paying On the Internet Lesson Plan #2: An Experiment in Barter Exchange Lesson Plan #3: How Do You Pay? Lesson Plan #4: How Do You Pay? The Evolution of Money Instructor’s Note: The first five lesson plans (#1a through #1e) are designed as a modular set to be used together. They consist of a series of discussions covering various parts of the video. You may use them in several ways. One is to alternate between discussions and watching segments of the video. There are three pause points on the video. The discussions are designed to fit with these points. The first lesson (#1a) fits before the video begins; lessons #1b through #1d fit well at the three pause points; and the final one (#1e) fits best at the end of the video segment. Alternatively, the video can be viewed without interruption and the discussions divided between topics to be discussed before and after viewing. No continuity will be lost if some discussions are skipped. Because much of this material may be unfamiliar to teachers, each of the lessons has an extended presentation of background information for teachers. This information, along with additional materials from the references cited in the section called “For More Information,” should help you to be an informed discussion leader. Lesson Plan #1a:...
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...many tools for students to work with. Also there would be laptops for students, to use to find information. In the corridor we would have tables and chairs and photos of famous professors. Moreover, on the third floor there would be more than one language class. That the student could choose to learn, like Arabic, English and French. In every class there would be interactive whitebeards and on the desks there would be computers, to help students communicate with other students, in different countries. Lessons would take fifty minutes and breaks would be thirty minutes. Students could buy food in school canteen and sits on the comfortable sofa, not on the typical wooden chair. There wouldn't be mid-term exams, just tests and quizzes. The teachers would be smiling and this school would be full of kindhearted people who would be my friends. I adore this school because you can ACTUALLY learn something you use in life. My Ideal School At the...
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...SIOP® LESSON PLANS Grade 9/SIFE Reading/Language Arts/Writing Unit/Theme: Emotions and The House on Mango Street *Content Objective(s): *Students will describe Cisneros’ voice and style, listing some of her creative uses of language as characteristic of this author’s craft*Students will explore the physical and emotional prisons in which people live. *Students will discover and evaluate different methods of escape from these prisons. *Students will practice writing in the persuasive mode, using evidence from the text and from their own lives to construct effective arguments proposing the best way to escape the troubles of life*Students will peer edit and revise for content, for sentence structure, and for use of figurative language. *Language Objective(s): *Students will continue to build vocabulary resources for discussing emotions. *Students will identify fragmentary sentence structure, voice, and effective use of figurative language in Cisneros’ style and use knowledge of style to develop originality in their own writing style. *Student will be able to participate in and contribute to collaborative learning, such as “think, pair, share” and “expert groups.” Key Vocabulary: prison, escape, safe haven, voice, style, figurative language, persuasive mode, context, concept map, anticipatory set, peer editing, rubric, tapping prior knowledge, description, sensory detail, quotation, five senses, , sentence fragments, “unacceptable in academic writing,” punctuation,...
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