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Lesson Plan Calendar
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 |
| Students will come to class with books read. Brainstorm themes of the different books students read. Allow students to talk about their books. This will determine book, writing, and project groups. Go over theme examples. | Themes
in Modern Literature Unit Overview:
Working well in groups. Theme Group Activity Example: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (CN for short) |
Hand
out paper topics
Discuss paper topics & grading criteria Students will brainstorm ideas that fit within these paper topics. Examples from CN |
Classroom
presentation:
Conducting effective Internet research Modeling good searches CARS checklist Examples from CN |
Computer Lab day to collect Internet research |
| Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day10 |
| Classroom
day: Conducting effective Library searches, how to use critical resources,and
sample resources shown.
Students have class time to use these sources |
Library
Day:
Researching and Writing |
Putting the research together. After reading through several different viewpoints how did these differ from or support your thoughts on the novel? Informal class writing on the surprises you found. Examples from CN | Writing
day
Student conferencing |
Drafts
Due Revision group
15 minute mini-lesson Work in theme group
Student conferencing |
| Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 13 | Day 14 | Day 15 |
| 15
minute mini-lesson.
Workday Students' conferencing |
In
class:
Design Issues will be covered. Students will spend time practicing design issues. |
Storyboarding | Computer Lab: Students will spend the day creating the visual portion of their web project. Through collecting backgrounds, scanning bookcovers, and collecting clipart students will be ready to incorporate visuals into their web pages. | Computer
Lab:
Web Page Instruction Day Students will be given step by step instructions on how to use a web page editor. |
| Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 | . |
| Computer
Lab:
Work day and individual instruction and feedback. Revising and reworking writing on the web for paper 2. Web page 1 due |
Computer
Lab:
Work day and partner instruction and feedback. Revising and reworking writing on the web with partners. |
Computer
Lab: Work day and group instruction
and feedback. Revising and reworking writing on the web with theme
groups.
Web page 2 due, final partner page, and theme group page |
Complete
Feedback from unit.
Introduce new unit. Let students know that we will be observing the final Web projects as soon as I get them together on the web site. They will also receive their final grade at this time. |
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