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Engagement
8.3 Foster collaboration and community:
- having students work in groups and pairs will increase collaboration and communication.
SCO:
1. Consider and reflect upon the
contribution of others ideas
during discussions
2. Ask questions that probe for
accuracy, relevancy, and validity;
respond thoughtfully and
appropriately to such questions
3. Demonstrate competence in the
frequent use of writing and
representing strategies to extend
learning; to explore their own
thoughts and consider others
ideas; to reflect on their feelings,
values, and attitudes; and to
identify problems and describe
logical solutions.
What assessment strategies will measure the learning from the outcomes?
Formative:
- Learning Logs: similar to journals, students will write about their learnings and
readings. Each week students will spend 10 minutes writing their learnings of the
author, and connections about the chapters they read that week.
Timeline / Elaboration
Before (APK) 10m
Focus Questions:
Start with asking students: Have any of you read The Hunger Games novels? Or seen any of
the films?
APK: Think-Write-Share
- Similar to the above strategy, but the sharing follows the writing. Students think about a
Required Materials, Tools and Technology
http://www.biography.com/people/suzanne-collins-20903551
Special Concerns
Sarah Leblanc has visual issues; therefore, ensure she is sitting near the front.
Seating plan will be provided to ensure students are in their proper seats.
Website for authors background information if the handouts are not there for teacher:
http://www.biography.com/people/suzanne-collins-20903551
If teacher is not there to have Power Point photos of author, novel, and movie pictures, teacher
can google pictures of the author, novel and actors of the film.
Differentiation
VAK
There is a visual component (the students will have their novels to refer to, chart paper, and the
author biography handout. There will also be a PowerPoint for photos of the author), an
auditory component (students will be asking questions and discussing together author
information.) There is also a kinesthetic component (writing questions in a group, as well as
the APK activity).
In-Class Support
We have Stacie, our EA for Sarah who has low vision. She is a great help if needed!
Cross-curricular Connections
Family health and living. (Life of the author)
Reflection
Together we were able to agree on every activity we placed in our lesson plan.
One issue we faced was ensuring the UDL was written properly. Ensuring all the MIs and LSs,
and balanced literacy were connected to the activities was also fairly difficult, but was easier
connected after learning about them better.
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