Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Finding Sources for research Name: Hannah Kim

Content Area: English Grade Level: 9
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of
each source in terms of the task, purpose and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and
overreliance on any one source and following a standard format of citation including footnotes and endnotes, CA.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

 Learn how to find credible sources for research and essays.
 Knowing the difference between primary and secondary sources through the means of activities and in practical use (thought essays/other writing
assignments)
 Using found sources appropriately in writing assignments and citing them correctly.

Unit Summary:
Students will learn how to find and use various types of sources to use for their writing assignments. They will start with learning about primary and secondary
sources as well as the importance of citing them correctly in context to copyright laws and plagiarism in their assignments. Then they will have practice in
finding the sources and looking through them to find information that pertains to their assignments. The set up of the unit is to get students ready to use proper
sources in writing assignments, so they will end the unit with writing an essay that they create on their own and use the sources they find effectively to support
their thesis statement and arguments. This is to build a foundation of skills that include writing with sources, finding sources, and properly using and citing
them.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative:
 Quizlet flashcards to engage with student’s  Quiz- complete a short quiz on various
prior knowledge and begin the foundation sources and determine whether they are
of writing arguments. primary or secondary.
 Graphic Organizer- complete the
assignment on how to use primary and
secondary sources, as well as practice
creating a thesis statement, arguments,
picking quotations, and creating citations.
 Discussion forum- have the students
participate in a discussion forum by
creating a thesis statement in accordance
Summative:
 Graphic Organizer- students will revisit a
previous assignment, but instead will
create three topic sentences to start the
main body paragraphs instead of
arguments. This is to prepare students for
the structure of a 5-paragraph essay.
 Essay- students will write and complete a
5-paragraph essay with aa given prompt
based off of what they wrote for their
graphic organizer.
 to a given prompt and have the other
students respond to two posts and write
their own arguments with evidence from
given sources to support that thesis
statement. Or they can counter it with
evidence from given sources.
 Daily journals- students are given daily
prompts to respond to by creating a one
sentence introduction paragraph, three
topic sentences, and one conclusion
sentence. Students can write more than
one sentence for the introduction and
conclusion parts. This is to be typed and
saved on a google document.

Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities:
Learn the difference (Assessments): Answering three questions about the sources and learning about the difference between primary and
between primary and Finding sources for their secondary sources, where to find the sources, and why it is important to use the sources and citing them
secondary sources, and the writing assignments when as well.
importance of citing the assigned to and quoting
sources. them and citing them
correctly.
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Learn how to find Finding the correct Using the links provided to find information in the sources to answer the questions on the worksheet.
information in sources for a information in the given This has students looking through the various websites and reading the information on there to find the
research paper. sources and using the answers for the questions given to them.
information to answer the
questions on the
worksheet.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
How to brainstorm with The sources used are being Create a tree chart with the prompt on top, a thesis statement branching off of the prompt, and from the
charts and learn how used to its best potential to thesis statement, three branches branching off as three separate arguments to support the thesis
sources can be used in a support arguments that are statement. With each argument, a quotation will be used from one of the three given sources to support
practical way in a to support the thesis the argument. Under each quotation the student will cite the source in MLA format.
essay/research paper statement in response to
format. the prompt.
Unit Resources:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
To help with MLA format and citations
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/thesis-statement
Understand what a thesis statement is, as well as for any other unclear terminology.
https://quizlet.com/
Used for one of the assignments, but also a good website to help remember terms and their definitions.
https://www.gliffy.com/
Used to create various charts for assignments and for brainstorming and organizing information.

Useful Websites:
https://eliteediting.com/resources/where-to-find-credible-sources-for-your-research-paper/
Where to find credible sources for your research paper
https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/primarysecondary
Additional information on sources
http://www.easybib.com/guides/students/writing-guide/ii-research/a-finding-sources/
Where to find sources