`CMS Instructional Plan 2017-2018

Teacher: / Dycus / Grade: / 7 / Subject: / Language and Literature- Writing / Week of: / February 5 - 9, 2018
Statement of Inquiry: / This unit shifts from the art of storytelling to the craft of informing, explaining, and convincing. Students learn to generate ideas through close reading, purposeful research, and productive collaboration. After learning how to write effective explanatory texts, students build on this knowledge to create convincing argumentative texts on relevant and engaging topics that focus on the issue of targeted marketing of products to youths. / Approaches to Learning: / Students learn best when their learning experiences have context and are connected to their lives and their experience of the world that they have experienced.
Key Concept:Choices
Related Concept: Communication
Global Context:
Monday- / Tuesday- / Wednesday- / Thursday / Friday
Vocabulary / Subordinate
Perspective
Interpret
Imagery
Motif
Mood
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Allusion / Subordinate
Perspective
Interpret
Imagery
Motif
Mood
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Allusion / Subordinate
Perspective
Interpret
Imagery
Motif
Mood
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Allusion / Subordinate
Perspective
Interpret
Imagery
Motif
Mood
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Allusion / Subordinate
Perspective
Interpret
Imagery
Motif
Mood
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Inquiry Question
(Essential Question or Learning Target) / How well can I paraphrase my reading? / How does the way I interpret facts affect my writing? / How well do I understand prepositional phrases? / How do I ealuate internet sources? / How do I make inferences from my reading?
OPENING
Activating Strategy / Take out pencil and paper
Take CTLS test / Prepositional video / Pass out books / Information text 240
WORK SESSION
Instructional Strategy(ies) / With your seatmate paraphrase each paragraph of the story.
Page 228
Put a star next to vivid imagery / Page 228
Long walk to Freedom
Concentration on the first 3 paragraphs
In paragraphs 1-3, Mandela talks about his three stages of thinking about freedom. Describe the 3 stages and what they stand for. / Completion of worksheet
Review of worksheet
With your seatmate write a prepositional phrase on a sentence / Review list on page 234
With your seat mate answer questions on page 237 and 238 / Read the information text.
Prompt:
What inference can you make about the transition to a non-apartheid government in South Africa?
CLOSING
Summarizing Strategy / Share out / Post to the board / Shareout writing.
Differentiation / Paired work, flexible grouping. / Movement / Checklist to conduct peer conferences

Lesson plans are flexible.

Lessons