Search: Language Arts, Text (books, letters, poems, newspapers, etc.), 3.4.2 Assess the quality and effectiveness of the learning product.
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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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| George Washington: Was he a responsible family man as well as a great leader? | As a team effort, students will write a letter of recommendation to the editor of a local newspaper supporting the idea that George Washington was a good father and a great leader of our country. Essential Questions: What are primary sources? How could George Washington be a good father if he had no children of his own? Was George Washington a great leader? Why did he deserve to have a place on Mt. Rushmore? | 3, 4, 5 | |
| Dr. Seuss and Read Across America | The essential question, What important facts about Dr. Seuss influenced the Read Across America movement in America? This lesson is designed to teach students to analyze the life and works of Dr. Seuss and to infer why he was important to the Read Across America movement. Students will use note taking skills to write their paragraph from reliable, teacher selected sources. | 5, 6 | |
| Taking Action for Human Rights 3: Do | How can ordinary people defend human rights? Students will research and develop an action plan regarding a contemporary human rights violation. Students will gain hands-on experience in grassroots activism which will inform and inspire human rights activism later in life. *Lesson three of four.* | 10, 11, 12 | |
| Global Warming Portfolio Project | Eighth grade students will synthesize learning in Science, Mathematics and Language Arts to present accurate, relevant, authoritative and current information about global warming using digital tools and information processing strategies. The essential questions are: Has the climate of our world changed in the last fifty years because of human activity? How can you justify your response? | 8 | |
| Creating 21st Century Superheroes | As a conclusion to a unit on the comic book as literature, students will work in small groups to research a current global issue and create a superhero who has the 21st century skills to solve it. Essential Questions: What are the characteristics of a superhero? Which global issue impacts my community? | 11, 12 | |
| What Were They Thinking Then, What Are We Thinking Now? | In the library students compare primary sources from two time periods relating to an issue in their novel or play. Students compare how the issue was perceived by characters in their work to how it is perceived by individuals today. The essential questions for this lesson are: Have the ideas and perspectives about the main issue of the novel or play changed with time? To what extent has the issue been resolved? | 10 | |
| 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 | |
| Teaching Digital Curation Using LiveBinders to Study the Life and Times of Mark Twain | Students will gain background knowledge of the time period surrounding Mark Twain's THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. They will do this by also learning how to digitally curate multimedia materials and Joyce Valenza's CAARD evaluation and selection method for choosing reliable web-based resources. | 8 | |
| Analyzing Sonnets | How does [insert sonneteer's name] use literary techniques to convey his/her message/theme in [insert sonnet name]? In answering the above essential question, students will read an critique dramatic selections from a variety of authors (to choose their sonnet),read and critique a specific type of poetry (sonnets and the type of sonnet style based on the sonnet chosen), create source and notecards in MLA format, and then write a documented research paper. | 11 | |
| Evaluating Websites | The concept of this lesson is to teach students the factors and indicators of what makes a web site credible or not credible and for the students to understand why it is important to use credible web sites when researching for papers. The essential question that students will explore is "what are the differences between a credible web site and a non-credible web site?" | 12 |