Good Afternoon Everyone,
Here is my lesson plan posted to my website. I still need to have some cosmetic work finished, but the framework is all there. I have created an Edmodo site for the students to use, and I will add other requirements/rubrics and stuff later.
http://polaris.umuc.edu/~bchristo/edtc/christovichlessonplan.html
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Hey Beth,
Wish I were in your class. Just got home a little bit ago and took a quick look.
-I'm sure you know your picture is not there
-What grade is it for? (just my curiosity)
Promise I will look further tomorrow.
Thanks Cate,
This is tentatively for my 8th grade LA class... but I feel like it could be use in high school or an honors 7th grade class.
Thanks for reminding me that I need a picture. I was worried about the content and structure of my lesson plan and wanted to add the other things this week!
Beth
Well, it looked like you left space for one :) Just thought you didn't upload it. I'd say ask a student to draw a pic of Shakespeare and scan it so you don't have to worry about royalties.
Oooh. I already have a student in mind!
From a ADD standpoint - check out some of the sample lessons and see if you can break up the discrete tasks into different webpages. It will make it a pain, but will keep the students on task better.
From an easily-bored student standpoint - could your task 1 be introduced as the student is a newspaper editor tasked with writing an obituary or a time-traveller who has switched bodies with Shakespeare's best friend and needs to give the eulogy and so needs to find out as much as possible about the man so that they won't be found out..... and then, of course this best friend would have to know whether or not Shakespeare wrote the plays....
This might give you a better through line for the task instead of having completely discrete pieces.
And you could give extra credit to any student who can make a logical case for a modern day author traveling back in time to write Shakespeare's plays (after making a case for one of his contemporaries, of course. I mean, JK Rowling.... where the heck did she REEEALLY come from.....)
I promise to come back to the site and read for educational content instead of fun later. Because none of what I wrote is on the rubric.....
Ok. I have divided up the website into multiple sections. It is back to barebones again, but it is more of a broken down multistep process. Cate, you made a great point. I realized that my students struggle with two step directions on tests and they would have huge issues if I gave them the original. I need to find a way to add some elements of style but make sure that they are not distractions... I'm open to any ideas!
Well, you will use the same style sheet on it all.
Here's fun. My Dreamweaver has stopped connecting to Polaris.... I think it's bedtime!
That's a good point about using the same style sheet. I was creating style sheets for each of my html pages. But then I discovered a different way to modify my pages using the task bar at the bottom.
My computer was doing the same thing. I quickly realized I needed to upload things a couple at a time or else it took forever. Between the Dreamweaver/Polaris issue and the Yankee/O's game I went to bed too!
Hey Beth,
I really liked how you had separate pages for each task. That is something I'm defintely going to add to mine. Your lesson was very easy to read and follow. Just add some "pizazz", if you will. :)
Alyssa
Beth,
You have enough for a whole unit! Just one of your three steps would have been sufficient for this Project.
However, since you have all this, let me give you some suggetions:
First, clarify your teleresearch purpose(s)? The first "step" appears to be Explore a Topic/Answer a Question. As Harris notes, teleresearch purposes are often combined in actual lessons, so it's fine to mix them.
For the purpose of this assignment, however, state which teleresearch purpose (s) you are illustrating (as part of your group project).
It's typical for a lesson to use two different teleresearch purposes--since most lessons involve various activities.
Here's my sense of your purposes: Your summary indicates that steps one and two use the teleresearch purpose of exploring a topic/answering a question. Step three uses authentic problem-solving.
Also, consider revising the objectives to make them correspond with the activities:
The 1st objective seems to be that students will be able to [??list, describe, detail] information about Shakespeare's background (for future use in xxx). [Students will be investigating; however, the student learning objective is, I think, for them to actually demonstrate that they have learned information.]
The 2nd objective [perhaps should be to synthesize information about why Shakespeare was not the author--since they are doing more than identifying] by writing a summary. [You would have to teach/review summary writing or provide a link to review it.]
The 3rd learning objective [seems to relate to persuasive writing--e.g. students will be able to organize information into a coherent argument to use in a debate]. Note: Students will debate is what they will DO not what they will learn.
I hope you'll be able to use this set of activities in your classes!They are well-designed and your instruction guide students well.
Thank you Dawn,
I realized after I put everything together that this project quickly became a unit plan. I will go back and add the teleresearch purposes as well as the objectives for each step.
I have actually spoken with my principal and I would like to implement this project in the spring. Will my site still be available then?
It will be available for a long time.
The beauty Dreamweaver sites is that if his site should go down, you can publish it on another service. Some are free, some are very, very inexpensive. I should look into prices and explain this to others.
Dawn
I have gone through my website and added all of the objectives and research purposes. Hopefully I have everything that is needed. Please let me know if there is anything else that should be added.
Thanks,
Beth
Beth,
I will, of course, look closely when I do the grading.
I do have one suggestion--could you put links to all the steps on each page. Then students can move from any given step to any page in the activity.
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