Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Fall 2015
Your final hard or digital copy is due Wed., 12/7. Please compile all of the following materials. If you
are providing a hard copy, bind the materials together in some way (dont just staple them). Either
way, your materials should be professional enough in appearance that you would be proud to take
them to a job interview.
Attach this checklist + include a cover page with the overarching theme for the year, the grade
level, your name, the date, and a signed honor pledge: In completing this project, I have not
given, received, or used any unauthorized assistance (including materials created by myself or
others from a previous class). If you worked in a group, everyone should sign the honor pledge.
Descriptions of 6-9 units. For each unit, include 1-2 pages addressing these components:
o Unit title and length of time the unit will take
o 1-2 sentence description of content and goals of the unit
o Standards and Connected Learning Principles. List only those you will feature in your
instruction, not those to be reinforced or practiced.
o Major methods of student assessment (i.e., projects, papers, speeches, etc.). Include
no more than two assessments per four-week period.
o Titles and genres of the texts you will teach in the unit (context, fulcrum, and context
texts; include print, visual, and multimodal texts).
o Weekly focus, such as Historical Perspective or Voice and Tone. Remember that you
only have 36 weeks in an academic year and that some of these are finals weeks.
A culminating assessment for the entire year that includes the following components:
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A brief description of the tool you will use to assess the artifact. This description may be a
fully developed rubric if you choose, but it may also consist of a paragraph or so in which
you say that you will create a rubric to assess the artifact on the following criteria (and
then provide reasonable, relevant criteria).
A graphic organizer that displays in a minimum number of pages how and in what units you are
addressing the VA SOLs
A grid that displays where (i.e., in what units) you have addressed all of the required outcomes for
the year as these are stated in the body of standards you have chosen to use for the yearlong
plan. (i.e., the evidence outcomes in the VA SOLs.)
A group participation statement if you worked in a group (see weebly site). This should speak
directly to the criteria listed on the scoring guide in justifying the grade you believe you deserve
and a self-evaluation (approx. 1 single-spaced page). For your self-evaluation statement,
describe your individual contributions to the yearlong plan and your experiences with collaboration
Overcoming
(if you collaborated) OR working individually (if you did that). Add anything else that you think is
important for me to know about the plan and your work on it.
I shall uphold the values and ideals of Radford University by engaging in responsible
behavior and striving always to be accountable for my actions while holding myself and
others to the highest moral and ethical standards of academic integrity and good
citizenship as defined in the Standards of Student Conduct.
Context:
This year-long outline plans for, and its overall success rests upon the creation of a
cooperative classroom learning environment, in which students feel comfortable
expressing and evaluating/re-formulating their opinions and interpretations of texts.
Abby and I have both taught in Montgomery County Schools, and our classroom
vision is somewhat influenced by the classrooms and overarching learning
structures/environments that we have witnessed and participated in through this
system. Montgomery Countys mission statement expresses the desire to inspire
learning by providing a nurturing environment, positive relationships, high
expectations, and continuous growth by ensuring that students have proper
physical safety and emotional well-being, mutual trust and respect, open
communication, accountability, engagement, and life-long learning (MCPS, 2014).
The countys schools offer various opportunities for extra-curricular and community
engagement, and both of us hope to someday teach in similar, semi-rural districts,
which would have comparable community demographics, socioeconomic levels, and
student-teacher ratios. Our plan is designed to work with a schedule that has a 90minute block every day for one semester.
Breakdown of Specific Student/Class Context (estimated):
In the majority of homes of school-age children, both parents work, but many
make great efforts to engage and/or invest their time in school/extra-
curricular activities
A majority of students have non-traditional family structures, living with
grandparents and/or single parents, or splitting time between two homes
conflicts that surround them daily, in their personal lives, in their friend groups and
school community, and in their worlds, as a whole. Consideration of factors such as
community makeup, cultural values, and differing points of view will hopefully allow
students to begin thinking of themselves as capable, positive parts of society.
List of Units:
*Students will participate in year-long vocabulary development
exercises/daily practice, parallel to their reading and other in-class
work, so standard 10.3 (vocabulary development) will be addressed
within every unit.*
1) Coming of Age/Identity: How do we overcome personal/internal
conflict? (4 weeks, SOL 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7)
Overview/RationaleThis unit will serve as an introduction to our overarching
theme of Overcoming Conflict, by providing students with opportunities to
connect with the coming-of-age-literature/stories that we explore as a class.
Since our focus/class definition of conflict will broaden and change as we
progress throughout the year, it makes sense to begin with the closest kind of
conflict, the one most likely felt by all of the members of our communities, at
school, home, work, etc. Students will explore their own experiences through
the maintenance of a personal journal, in which they will record by-weekly
responses to teacher-provided prompts, as well as questions/topics generated
by their discussion groups. These journals will help students answer the
important questions that we ask as we begin (and will return to as we
progress through) our year-long unit: What is conflict? Have I experienced it,
and has it changed me? For the worse or better? Whose opinion/point of view
matters most in any given conflict? How do we know?
Works/Texts Used:
Video clip(s)- Freaks and Geeks/Lizzie McGuire/Boy Meets World (SOL
10.2 b-d)
Sherwood Andersons Short Story- Im a Fool (SOL 10.1 a, b, d-g, I, j)
Advertisements/Public Media- advertisements portraying coming of age
a, b, f-h)
Magazine Article- How Quantico Star Priyanka Chopra Overcame
Play/Shakespeare- 1st half of Romeo and Juliet (include film clips, inclass performances, and recorded theatrical adaptations) (SOL 10.3 a-
Week 2 FocusReturn to Internal Vs. External Conflict (SOL 10.1 a-k, 10.4 a-m)
Week 3 Focus Argument: Thesis, Reason, and Evidence (SOL 10.6 a-g, 10.7a-h,
10.8 a-f)
Week 4 Focus Persuasive Writing (SOL 10.5a-h, 10.8 a-f)
Assessment: Student-led panel- this panel will be somewhat like a debate, in which
students take positions (ex: National Government as Supreme Authority, Individual
as Supreme Authority, Community is Supreme Authority, etc.), and can tag in and
out, defending their position with scenarios and evidence from the pieces that they
have read in groups, and the we have read as a class. Each student will be
responsible for one talking point, evidenced by a one-page, research-based
(and/or literature-grounded/cited) argument for or against their chosen point.
5) War (national/global conflict) (4 weeks, SOL 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6,
10.7, 10.8)
Overview/Rationale This unit draws from themes discussed in the previous
unit, but again brings students back to a consideration of internal vs. external
conflict. As they complete various class discussions, analyses, and
comparisons of the literature and stories experienced by the class as a whole,
students will prepare to read/view and analyze an outside source (fiction,
non-fiction, news media, memoir, etc.), drawing on their knowledge of the
themes and conflicts found within or our in-class texts to identify and explain
the common features that connect their chosen national/global/war-time
conflict to those that we have studied.
Works/Texts Used:
Film clip- Forrest Gump (SOL 10.2 b-d)
Short Story-Tim OBrien, from The Things They Carried (SOL 10.4 a-m)
Short Story- Sunrise Over Fallujah (SOL 10.4 a-m)
Magazine Articles- on effects of war, ex: Vanity Fair, How PTSD
Became a Problem Far Beyond the Battlefield (SOL 10.3, 10.5 a-h)
Hatian Poetry- by Edwige Danticat and Others (SOL 10.4)
the years theme of overcoming conflict. These questions/topics can bring in any of
the readings from throughout the year, they can draw upon personal experiences
that exemplify the issues/conflicts that were discussed in a particular unit, in order
to help students come to a better/different/more complex understanding of the
meaning of the word conflict. The topics/questions can also be in digital form,
including video/sound clips, visual representations, etc., as long as the digital
components contribute to the discussion prompt. This assessment will help prepare
students to think about their extended definitions of conflict together, before they
begin pre-writing and planning for their final assessment (or perhaps as they begin,
as note-taking will be encouraged).
Final Assessment
In your next writing assignment, you will be able to choose an abstract concept (Ex:
Internal conflict, bullying, social justice, freedom, peace with nature, love, war, etc.)
to define in detail.
Your essay should explain your unique opinion on the concept you chose that relates
to our overall theme of overcoming conflictyour definition should differ from what
others might say or vary from the simple dictionary definition. It should also include
various strategies of definition (definition by function, example, structure,
background and/or negation). Use your writing portfolio, class discussions, the texts
the we have encountered together, your personal knowledge, and any other source
you need to write your extended definition. Be as specific and detailed as possible;
go beyond the obvious and give specific examples that illuminate your unique
definition of the word.
Write a 500+ word extended definition that illustrates and analyzes the connotative
(and perhaps denotative) meanings of a term or concept. The purpose of the essay
is to inform the reader of the depth of meaning of your chosen word or concept;
thus, clarity and logical organization are essential. To further define your term, you
may consider using one or more of the following writing strategies:
Classification: Divide the subject into parts or categories and define each
separately.
Comparison/Contrast: The unfamiliar may be defined by showing its likeness to
the familiar or its difference from it.
Examples and Incidents: Use facts or anecdotes to help the reader relate the
term/concept to something specific.
Personal Experience: Use narratives to show the term or concept in action.
Negation: Mention what it is not in order to clear the ground for what it is.
Cause/Effect: Discuss the consequences and uses of the subject.
Details: What are the physical characteristics, traditional thoughts, and other
distinguishing attributes that describe the term or concept?
**Note: It is a good idea to familiarize yourself with the rubric, even before or
as you begin to write, and come back to it throughout your
writing/revising/editing processes.
Criteria
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Comments
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Unit 1
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Unit 2
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Year-Long Plan:
10th Grade
English
Standards of
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Unit 4
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*Students will participate in year-long vocabulary development exercises/daily
practice, parallel to their reading and other in-class work, so these standards will be
addressed within every unit.