Lesson

Title/Focus

What Do You Do With an Idea?

Date

Aug 31st, 2015

Subject/Gra
de Level

Grade 9 Humanities

Time
Duratio
n

80 min

Unit

Pre-Assessment - Get to Know You

Teacher

Christina Shorrock and

Courtney Dvorkin

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcome
s:
Specific
Learning
Outcome
s:

ELA GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and
represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences
ELA GLO 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and
represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to
oral, print and other media texts.
ELA SLO 1.1.1: Express ideas and develop understanding
- talk with others and experience a variety of oral, print and
other media texts to explore, develop and justify own opinions and
points of view
ELA SLO 2.1.2: Use strategies and cues
- use previous reading experiences, personal experiences and
prior knowledge as a basis for reflecting on and interpreting ideas
encountered in texts

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Alberta Program of Studies

What Do You Do With an Idea by

Kobi Yamada

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Paper/ construction paper

Markers
Laptops

PROCEDURE
Assessment of
Prior
Knowledge /
Preface

Learning Activity
#1

Learning Activity
#2

Introduction
Here at Connect, you are all taught to go with your
ideas and inspire each other to follow their ideas. Weve
been noticing within our first week here that this school
operates in an amazing way where this kind of learning
is actually possible and encouraged. We are very excited
to be a part of it and we have an idea that will help us
get to know you better, see how you write and think, and
also see what your ideas look like
We can use a brief time at beginning of class to
discuss the unit coming up and some of the things
students can expect as far as assessment, class
work, groups etc.
Body
Read What Do You Do With an Idea?
- Tell students to pay attention not only to the apparent
happenings, but the overall message of the story (before
reading)
- Also tell them to take note of what the idea looks like
- Read text to students walk around and show pictures
as I read
Direct students to the journal prompt page
- Read and explain task to students

Time

5 min

Time

10 min

25 min
(longer if

Learning Activity
#3

Assessment of
Learning:

Sponge
Activity/Activities
Reflections from
the lesson

- Allow students time to first think alone, then get up or

turn to a friend and share their experiences verbally and
brainstorm how they might respond (might help to talk it
out first)
- Time students with at least ten minutes of absolutely
silent and reflective writing time (responding in their
google docs)
Draw what their ideas look like
- Students will be given time once theyve finished
responding to their first journal post to visually represent
what their ideas look like
- These pictures will be used for a bulletin board display
in the hallway
Closure
Students will not be graded for this assignment, but it is
meant to give us a clear picture of their writing skills,
imagination, and who they are as people before we
delve into our economics unit.

needed)

Rest of
time as
needed
Time