Professional Documents
Culture Documents
EARLY PHASE
Targeted Skills
Which skills will be targeted in this
phase of the project?
CAPUNC
Sentence Fluency-- run-on
sentences, sentence
fragments, comma splices
How to write a Power
Paragraph-- topic sentences,
support, conclusions
Research skills and note
taking
Using reading strategies and
figuring out vocabulary in
context
Plot diagram
Writing interview questions
Anticipated Need-toKnows
What need-to-knows do I
expect/ anticipate students
will have after the Entry
Event?
Are there mandatory
need-to-knows?
Assessed standards are
mandatory workshops
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legend?
Scaffolding Activities
What research, activities, workshops, lessons, or discussions might help students prepare for the
Key Benchmarks?
research?
King Arthur
Instruction on
Key Benchmarks
Formative
Assessments
What assessments will
provide students with
feedback throughout the
project and guide the
learning process?
Reflection
What journals, discussions,
or activities might help
students reflect on their
progress mid-project and
revise their work?
MIDDLE PHASE
Targeted Skills
5 paragraph essay - DBQ
How to conduct an interview interview etiquette
formal vs. informal voice
Effective visual aids
Anticipated Need-to-Knows
What is a DBQ?
What is the difference between
narrative and persuasive writing?
What is a 5 paragraph essay?
Scaffolding Activities
Alexander the Great (maybe do the DBQ?)
pre-dbq resource can be the background
essay from the DBQ
(https://drive.google.com/open?
id=0B8TZuMHeq55GUjZvR1JOU1ZLTFk)
Documents and questions/reflections
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J9kDs
4bILTO_C3PRUFyCixIJ4KtR-yzZUYvN-
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reading short biographies of legendary
figures of history
(analyze text by trying to answer the
question: How is this individual representative
of a cultures customs, values, and traditions,
and why is this person considered legendary?
Key Benchmarks
Formative
Assessments
Reflection
Anticipated Need-to-Knows
What materials do we need for our
visual aid?
Where is the exhibition going to be
and what resources will be provided?
What type of visual aid is required?
How will we be graded?
Key Benchmarks
Formative
Scaffolding Activities
Workshopping (small group and large group)
critiquing examples of written biographies
critiquing oral presentations/visual aids
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Assessments
Reflection
oral discussion (How did you learn and how did you grow?)
1)What went well?
2)What would you change?
3) What did you learn about the PLP that will help you for the next project?
4) What have you learned? How did you grow? What do you aspire too?
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
NTN - Slideshow
Lesson on
Conflict/Resolution
legends document
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
NTN - Slideshow
SRI/Free Read
Lesson Hatshepsut
legends document
Daily workshops:
Verbs/Simple
Sentences
5 min - whole class
Workshops
Lesson on Socrates
Revisit Ancient
Greece postits/Socrates
Myth: Theseus and
the Minotaur
Final Project:
Brainstorm Iowa
Legends/pull up Echo
Final Project:
Brainstorm/add to list
of possible legends
legend
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9
doc
PD Day...
Lesson on Caesar
22
add to legends document
Daily workshops:
Map Skills - quick
Lesson on Hammurabi
23
add to legends document
Daily workshops:
Map Skills - quick
Final Project:
Research on possible
chosen legend/Who is
creating the info that we
are researching?
Daily workshops:
Reading
Strategies/Inferencing
Hand back
pamphlet/edit/showcase
pamphlets
Final Project:
Brainstorm/add to list of
possible legends
legend
Add the oral presentation
piece - choose an ancient
legend - jigsaw
Lesson on Cesar
Chavez
24
Map Skills
hi-liting - questioning
- What made him
legendary? Add to
google
historical/literary
document
Lesson on Wilma
Rudolph 25
Map Skills
hi-liting:
questioning/connectin
g- What made him/her
legendary? Add to
historical/literary
document
Notes: Legendary
Legend 1. What
makes the
introduction to the
subject intriguing? An
effective bio narrative
Notes: Legendary
Legend
2. How does the
background hint at
the subjects
significance?An
effective bio narrative
Daily workshop:
Hi-liting important
information annotate
Final Project: Choose
and defend your
legend - Use the Top 5
document on
google/echo - Legend
proposal due!
28
29
30
Map Skills
Final Project:
Begin drafting a formal
email for your own
legend.
10/1
Lesson on figure in
packet - group choice
hi-lighting - what
made this person
legendary?
questioning,
connecting/inferencin
g
Which bio-narrative
do you feel was the
most effective and
why.
Daily workshops:
Intro to whats going
to happen on Friday.
Appropriate
dress/Being
respectful/Assign
roles within your
group.
Final Project:
Drafting a formal
email for your own
legend.
on Echo - Melissa is
creating
10/2
Daily workshops:
Interviewing skills
Review of appropriate
interview behavior
and notes taking
during interviews
Interview LIsa Remy,
Carol Seid, Janelle
Green students dress
in interview
appropriate clothing
Interview revisited:
What went well, what
could be improved
Final Project: How will
you apply this for
setting up your
research interview
Possible interviews
during
5
class this week!
Mini-workshop organizing google files.
Making folders for class.
20 minutes
FIll in Notes:Legendary
Legends Google Doc 10
min
Daily workshops:
Writing - editing/create a
google slideshow
percentages from writing
response 1. Reminders
on writing response 2. 20
min
Final Project: Work on
assigned tasks within
Echo - research legend,
contact experts, finish
and send emails, work on
introduction to bio
narrative. - slideshow on
introduction to bio
narratives
12
Daily workshops:
Begin Alexander the
Great DBQ
Final Project: Interview
Expert
6
Final Project: Assign Tasks check off by facilitator revisiting note taking
options, save
sources/Works Cited page
Introduce Temperature
Checks - on google
presentation
10-15 min
Zac, Joe, Shane in for 5
minute workshops on
effective communication
9:10-9:40 and 12:00-12:30
7
Daily workshops:
Body paragraphs - 5
paragraph essay model
Choosing a pic to go with
bio narrative.
Final Project:
Weeding through
research/Outline bio
narrative
13
Daily workshops:
Alexander the Great DBQ
14
Daily workshops:
Alexander the Great DBQ
8
Share Final Rubric
Exemplary Exhibit
Examples - What Ms.
L.R. expects when she
attends the exhibit.
Daily workshops:
Pull in groups to look
at intros/outlines
Final Project:
Continue research,
turn interviews into
notes
15
Daily workshops:
Alexander the Great
DBQ
Final Project:
Interview Expert
9
Daily workshops:
Group research into
Exhibit Areas/topics
(early life, the world
around, important
events)
1
0
Final Project:
Research on Legend
Completed/Check
research
Free reading time!!!
LR gone
16
Daily workshops:
Alexander the Great
DBQ completed by the
end of class - IAKT
Final Project:
Interview Expert
1
7
LR gone
19
Daily workshops:
MLA Format/Citation
Have students fill out the
conference google slides.
20
Final Project:
Work Time on Museum
Exhibit
Final Project:
Work Time on Museum
Exhibit
26 Daily Workshop:
Presentation skills
27
Daily workshops:
Presentation by Art teacher
about visually appealing
exhibit.
21
28
22
Daily workshops: Peer
Edit Bio-Narratives
Final Project:
Work Time on
Museum Exhibit
23
Daily workshops:
Project Reflection
29
Daily workshops:
30
Final Project:
Work Time on
Museum Exhibit
2
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