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Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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Fact vs. Opinion | Students will learn to distinguish the difference between facts and opinions. They will practice identifying facts and opinions. Essential Question: What is the difference between fact and opinion? | 7 | |
Horror Tales: What Makes Them Spooky? | The teachers and LMS tap students’ prior knowledge about horror fiction, why they read it, and what they particularly find fascinating about this sub-genre. Building on this prior knowledge, the LMS selects a wide range of fiction and promotes the stories through face-to-face booktalks and VoiceThread presentations. As students select stories to read and rate, they focus on the following essential question: What makes a powerful scary story? | 7 | |
Exploring Theme and Mood with a Book Trailer | After reading a novel, students will identify the themes and moods the author created in the book. Then using these themes and moods they will create a book trailer using an online computer program. Essential questions: What are the themes of the book? What is the mood of the story? What images and sounds could portray the mood and themes of the book? How would I persuade someone to read this book? | 7, 8 | |
Juvenile Justice | Students will follow the research process to locate information to be used as evidence in a comparative research paper. Essential questions: What is justice? How do non-traditional (alternative)juvenile justice systems differ from traditional juvenile justice systems? What would be the most effective juvenile justice system? | 7 | |
Animal Research Project | The lesson is designed to teach students how to use the BIG6 graphic organizer so they will have a systematic way to approach research papers. The students will then have to look-up a book on the subject and retrieve the book form the shelf to show they can use the library online catalog system. A review on accessing databases from the school lab and home will be done. Student will choose topic. | 7 |