Stage 1 Desired Results

Unit-level understanding(s) Essential Question(s)

Students will understand that:

Cognitive Development Cognitive Development

Three different explanations for
language development.
The different milestones of
language development in infancy.
Social and Personality
Development
The main ideas of attachment
theory and how synchrony affects
parent-infant relationships
How attachment in early
childhood affects adult
relationships and creates certain
personality types.
Ainsworths categories of
attachment according to the
Strange Situation experiment.
Harry Harlows study of infant
monkeys
What are some environmental
influences on language
development?
Is language what makes us
human?
How does first and second
language acquisition change over
time?
Social and Personality
Development
What are the long-term
consequences of attachment
quality?
How does synchrony manifest
itself in adult relationships, and in
what ways does synchrony, or the
lack thereof, influence those
relationships?

Prior knowledge, skills, and

understandings:
(What do students know, what can
they do, and what do they care about
with regard to these
understandings?)
Freuds psychoanalytic theory
and psychic determinism
Erik Eriksons psychosocial
theory and the first stages (trust
vs. mistrust) importance in
developing healthy relationships
Learning theories (classical and
operant conditioning)

Student objectives (outcomes):

Students will be able to. OR
Students will know
Develop a case study of
 attachment theory to the
protagonist in the movie Good
Will Hunting
Consider the realism behind the
story of Tarzan according to
cognitive and language
development.
The case studies of feral children
Stage 2 Assessment Evidence
Performance Task(s): (bigger
assessments)
Case study of Will Hunting
according to attachment theory
Multiple-choice test
Stage 3 Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
1. Language Development Game
a. Students develop their
own language give a short
list of phonemes and test
one another on their
ability to learn it.
2. Tarzan Short-Response (HW
assignment)
3. Discussion: Genie- the Feral Child
a. Seminar discussion of case
study, with comparison to
Tarzan the movie.
4. Chapter 5 Language PPT
5. Language Development Timeline
Other Evidence: (smaller and/or
informal assessments)
Short response: How plausible is
the story of Tarzan?
3-2-1 Journal
o Students write 3 important
concepts from the unit, 2
connections to the real-
world (their experience or
someone elses), and 1
critical-thinking question
Developmental Timeline
(Language focus)
o Students will be given a
set of language milestones
that they have to put in
chronological order
1. Harry Harlow and Attachment
Theory PPT
2. Adult Attachment Styles
a. Attachment styles are
paired with their adult
personality types
3. Attachment Theory handout
4. Attachment Personality Test
a. Students take a
personality test that gives
them their assigned
attachment style with a
short description.
b. Students then discuss the
validity/reliability of the
test.