Lesson Plans Warm Up: Journal Entry and Grammar Exercise Materials: 11/6 3&4: Validating sources Prezi

Laptop cart 11/7 3&4: Laptop Cart Objective: 6.6 b Use prior knowledge and build additional background knowledge as context for new learning. a.1) comprehend and record details and/or facts in order to arrive at a conclusion, inference, or generalization. Essential Questions: What resource options are available for researching nonfiction? Procedure: 1. Students list their 3 favorite hobbies on a sheet of paper. 2. Students circle their favorite from those 3. 3. Now students are given instructions for what to do: a. Search the internet about your topic (favorite hobby) b. Choose 5 facts about your topic (i.e. interesting facts, how it started, where it comes from, etc.) c. Turn those facts into a 1 page article using the nonfiction external text structures (headings, bold, pictures, etc.) 4. Students have time in class today and tomorrow to work on their research. 5. Students will type their articles using Google Docs and give a quick 45 second presentation to the class.

Procedures/Lesson Overview: (specify the steps of the lesson presentation) NOTE: Include at least one kinesthetic activity in your lesson plan. Creating an Environment for Learning: (Activate prior knowledge. Provide Background information. How will students be hooked? Y Set objectives ____ Cooperative Learning Y Provide Feedback Y Identify similarities & differences Y Reinforcing Effort ____ Providing Recognition Helping Students Develop Understanding: (What strategies and activities will be used to support the learning objectives? How will students receive feedback on their understanding and progress?) Y Nonlinguistic representations ____ Cooperative Learning Y Summarizing and note taking Y Identify similarities & differences Y Questions, cues, advance organizers Y Assigning Homework and Providing Practice Helping students Extend and Apply Knowledge: (The new knowledge to existing knowledge and future knowledge. Reflect. Evaluate. Think. Create.) Y Identifying Similarities and Differences ____ Generating and testing Hypothesis Y Evaluate ____ Self-Assessment Y Summarizing and Note Taking Assessment: Assessment/Expected Outcomes: (As a result of this lesson what will students be able to demonstrate? What will be accepted as evidence? Assessments should match the level of thinking of the objective (the verbs)). ___ Student self-assessment Y Short written response Y Performance tasks Y Teacher observation Y Oral reports ____ Demonstration Y RAFT Y Rubric provided ___ Essays ____ Free Response ___ Forced choice ____ Other ________________ Please attach any Cognitive Rigor Matrix that is used with your summative assessments. Also, Broken down SOL rubrics should be attached to the top of this lesson plan.

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Depth of Thinking (DOK) and Type of Thinking (Bloom) Remember Understand Apply

DOK Level 1 Recall and Reproduction

DOK Level 2 Basic Skills & Concepts

DOK Level 3 Strategic Thinking & Reasoning RIGOR

DOK Level 4 Extended Thinking RIGOR

Researching information and writing their personal likes articles Using external text structures in writing.

Analyze

Researching which information is relevant which is not in relation to their interest.

Evaluate Create (Synthesis)

Write an article based about your topic based on your research using the external text structures (i.e. bold, italics, headings, etc.)