Lesson Plan: October 21th

Comm Arts 7th Grade Animoto Presentation

Common Core/DPI Content Standards:
0 CCSS.ELA-Reading.RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and
comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the
grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as
needed at the high end of the range.
1 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.2 Demonstrate command of the
conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and
spelling when writing.
2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.2b Spell Correctly
ISTE Standards:
2.b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple
audiences using a variety of media and formats.

Curriculum Map

Year: Fall 2014

Teacher: Jamie Ann Carmody

Grade Level(s): 7
Length: 1 day (90 Min)

Theorist involved: RaffenbrennerStudents learn best when learning

together and having discussions.
Vygotsky- The idea of Scaffolding;
before this lesson students learned
Abilities Assessment Outcomes: Ability to use technology to express ideas to individual parts to a sentence (i.e.
verb, subject, and complete
a specific audience (their peers, teachers).
sentence) and will now be adding
Communication: Written, Reading, Speaking (verbal/non-verbal)
vocabulary such as independent
clause, dependent clause, compound
sentence.
Why: Students learn best when
working together to try and figure out
the problems and solutions. When
one student answers a question and
another student can tell them what is
wrong or why their answer isnt
correct it helps build report in the
classroom as well as within the group
setting.
In order for students to continue
learning there needs to be a bases of
information. My students need to
comprehend the basics before I can
expect more out of them. Also,
based on scaffolding we need to
review the information in order for
them to understand the new

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Essential Questions:

Performance Objectives
(SWBAT)

Skills

Hook/Motivation
Activate prior knowledge

Pre-assessment

Formative Assessments

Comm Arts 7th Grade Animoto Presentation

Lesson Animoto Presentation
Date: October 24,
2014
How do I effectively configure a book into a book trailer for my peers?
How do I work efficiently on a group project while including all group members
ideas effectively?
0 Students will be able to:
1 Understand the Animoto process as well as assess practice Animoto trailers
(tailoring to their grading rubric).
2 Clearly identifies components of a compound sentence.
Concentrate for an extended time period.
Arrive to class on time, come to class prepared with all materials, participate in class
activity, work alongside peers and communicates effectively and purposefully in
group discussions allowing for a purposeful learning experience, understand and can
explain compound sentences, understand written language and expresses clearly,
thoughts and ideas, of the books to peers using both verbal and non-verbal
communication.
Watching Animotos and seeing what is possible.
Start discussion on Animoto rubric that is similar to previous rubrics used in the
classroom. Discussion of compound sentences and what the differences are between
independent clauses and dependent clauses, FANBOYS, as well as subject and
predicates.
Present multiple book trailers and have students assess using rubrics that they will be
graded on. Start a group discussion on how we each graded the individual Animotos
and specific reasons why they deserved that grade referencing their rubric. After
looking and discussing Animoto grades, we will discuss specific effects that they liked
on the Animotos and how if they were to re-do them what could have been
differently.
We will also be talking about parts of a sentence, bringing back previous knowledge
on nouns, verbs, complete sentences before introducing compound sentences.
Find out where they are with their lit circle books by walking around and writing down
information given. Students will give me the next page number that they expect their
group to read to and when they plan on being on that specific page.

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Summative Assessments

Activities

Comm Arts 7th Grade Animoto Presentation

Animoto Book Trailers starting on Friday the 24th. We will ask for volunteers to go first,
then assign positions afterwards. Students are expected to assess their Animoto in a
group setting and give exact reasoning why for each section on the rubric. Then
students will be assessing each group member on collaboration even themselves. We
will return their rubric along with ours and if there are distinct differences on the
rubric sheets between the groups and ours we will sit down and have a discussion as
to why there was a difference of opinion and how where we can go from there.
Activities:
Day 1:
Compound Sentences (15 Min)
Present three sentences on the Smart Board and ask the students what the
similarities are in the three sentences. One will be a complex sentence, while two are
a compound sentences. Students will assume that they are all compound since we
told them we are beginning them last week, however I will use that to my advantage
in having them explain why all of them are compound sentences.
Book Trailers
Animoto Book Trailer Explanation (20 Min)
We will watch two book trailers and grade them together as a class.
Students will watch a book trailer on The Giver and Jurassic Park and students,
with their lit circles they will grade the Animoto based on the rubric and we will have
a discussion on which grade they gave each Animoto.
Break (5 Minutes)
Silent Reading (30 Min)
Students are expected to read silently on a chosen book for 30 minutes. Students
are expected to be reading the entire time. We are slowly beginning to build up our
students stamina for reading silently and comprehending what they are reading.
Students shouldnt be talking with their neighbors or writing while we have our
reading time.
Raaflaub will be doing testing outside with individual students.

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Materials

Comm Arts 7th Grade Animoto Presentation

Lit Circle Books, Rubric, Writing Utensil, Smart Board, Internet for Animotos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXy-Gj0LrTQ (Jurassic Park)
http://www.schooltube.com/video/7de69f83986ac37d2202/ (The Giver)