Revised 8/7/2011

Morristown West High School Lesson Plan TemplateDate:

Lesson Title: / Applying Capitalization, proofreader’s mark, and recognizing legal implications of copyright for multimedia/digital publishing. / Instructor: / Amy Whaley
Grade Level: / Ninth grade / Lesson Length: / 90 minutes

Standards/Objectives: TN Curriculum Standards

Standard:
8.1 Apply correct punctuation and capitalization (English II Gateway Standards 1.11).
SPI:Use proofreader marks to correct a document which contains multiple errors including punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and number expression.
3.1 Demonstrate proper keyboarding technique and apply layout and design processing skills to produce business documents.
SPI: Uses the proper technique to key correspondence.
7.3Comprehend copyright laws and their applications to text, visual art, design, music, and photography.
SPI:Recognizes the legal implications of violating federal and state laws in multimedia\digital publishing.
Objectives:
  1. Students will capitalize the correct words using the proper proofreading mark provided a newspaper article with 80% accuracy.
  2. The learners will demonstrate ergonomics with 100% accuracy.
  3. The class will recognize legal implications for illegally copying multimedia or digital publishing.

Real-Life Connections/Relevance: Hook

Set/Bellringer: Students will be provided Word Search puzzles as they come in the door. While logging into their work stations, they are to circle the words to be capitalized in the puzzle.
Ask students if they illegally download music or know someone who does. Talk about copyright infringement and its punishment. Tell the students we will discuss an article on violating multimedia copyright and learn how to proofread capitalization for that article. Three different students will read the three separate state standards for Keyboarding Applications/ Document Processing that we will be going over.
Students will also be told that this lesson meets English IV Standard CLE 3005.1.1 Demonstrate control of Standard English through grammar usage and mechanics (punctuation, capitalization, and spelling).

Prerequisite Knowledge:

Students should know what to capitalize based on middle school English lessons. This will be a review for some and new information for others. They may not know much about copyright law.

Presenting Instructional Content:

Materials:

Textbook
Century 21
Computer Applications and Keyboarding
p. 38 / x / Workbook / Whiteboard / Computer
25 students will utilize the 22 working stations in the classroom for Microsoft Word 2010 / x / Other:
Clickers / Handouts
Capitalization word search, Published article on multimedia/digital publishing and copyright / x / Smartboard/projector
YES / x / Other:
Document Camera / x / Other:

Techniques/Strategies:

  • All students will begin a new document in Microsoft Word and save it as capitalization rules on their z drives.
  • The instructor will demonstrate typing the rules on the smart board and title it capitalization rules.
  • The teacher will type each rule listing an example as the students follow along practicing ergonomics. The book may be used as a guide on page 38. The correct proofreading symbol will be introduced as to capitalize a word.
  • The students will then type their own example under the teacher example. Students will be called upon to write their own examples on the smartboard. Another student will use the red pen on the smart board to demonstrate drawing the proper proofreading mark under each word that should be capitalized.

Lecture / x / Discussion / x / Game / Other: / Other:
Lab/shop / x / Presentation / x / Other: Demonstration / Other: / Other:

Activities:(designed to meet objectives)

Given a USA Today article, students will read the article, pair up and apply proofreading marks to each letter that should be capitalized. The article is titled “Cybercriminals can’t get away with what they used to” and will be used to introduce legal implications in participating in cybercrime.” The article will be discussed, and then we will go over the correct 25 words to be capitalized as students use the red pen for proofreading on the smartboard.
Questions asked from article:
  1. What is Cybercrime? crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs.
2.Identify the words that need to be capitalized in the article Cybercriminals can’t get away with what they used to and apply the correct proofreading mark to the letters.
3. Explain some penalties for breaking copyright law or participating in cybercrime.
$230 million judgment for violation of the federal anti-spam law
felony to damage 10 or more PCs used by or for the federal government or a financial institution.
five years in prison or $250000 infines
4. What is your opinion of stiffer cybercrime laws referring to millions of dollars in lawsuits for stolen identity and spammers on myspace.com.

Grouping:

Whole / Small / Pairs/Partners / x / Individuals / x / Other:

Explanation:

Think, Pair, Share: There are not any students with IEP’s in this class, and there are a mixture of males and females. I will pair a male with a female for most groups.

Accommodations/Considerations:

extra time / pref seating / small group / peer tutor / mod assignment / Other: / x

Other: For students who commonly miss certain words to be capitalized, I will go over those words again at the end of the lesson and beginning of tomorrow’s lesson for the quiz. Students may retake their quiz if they score below an “A.” A second newspaper article will be provided for them to do at home and turn in the next day.

Assessment/Mastery of Objectives:

Unit/chapter test
T/F questions to see on midterm and final exam.
1. Capitalize historic periods, holidays, and events.
2. You do not need to capitalize the names of school clubs, companies, and other organizations because they are not of high distinction.
3. The following sentence is capitalized correctly. The Fourth of July celebrates the signing of the declaration of Independence.
4. Participating in cybercrime can result in jail time and large fines. / Quiz
See attached / X / Project / Group assignment: Male/Female pairs to proofread 25 capitalization errors in article and then compare each other's to see if they have the same 25 errors. / Study guide: There are not any working printers in my room to print student notes so they will be each given a typed page of my notes for tomorrow's capitalization quiz.
Oral present / Graphic org / Real world prob
Practice USA Today article / Written response / Teacher observes
Students observed writing their own examples of words to be capitalized and students applying correct proofreader's marks on smartboard.

Critical Thinking :

Analytical / x / Practical / x / Creative / x / Research-based / x / Other:

Bloom’s Taxonomy Questions to be Informally Assessed Throughout the Lesson:

  1. List the categories that need to be capitalized. What is Cybercrime?
  2. Provide your own sentence example of words that should be capitalized.
  3. Identify the words that need to be capitalized in the article Cybercriminals can’t get away with what they used to and apply the correct proofreading mark to the letters.
  4. Explain some penalties for breaking copyright law or participating in cybercrime.
  5. Proofread the student example on the smart board and apply the correct capitalization proofreading marks to the errors.
  6. Find another article using Mrs. Whaley’s copyright links on her website as a search engine on penalties cybercriminals face for breaking multimedia copyright law.
  7. What is your opinion of stiffer cybercrime laws referring to millions of dollars in lawsuits for stolen identity and spammers on myspace.com.

Closure/Reflection:

We will review the things that should be capitalized and most missed words in the practice article. Penalties for cybercrime such as illegally downloading music and games will be discussed. Students will be reminded of the capitalization quiz tomorrow. If time permits, we will play Spin the Wheel on the smartboard using the midterm and final exam questions from this lesson along with Bloom's Taxonomy questions. The row that wins receives suckers.
Each of the four rows is a team. Using the smart board, a big wheel similar to Wheel of Fortune is displayed. A team member from each team will be asked to press spin the wheel on the smart board. The teacher will ask a question reviewing from the lesson today. If the team gets the question right, they get the number of points their member spun. In the end, the team with the highest points wins candy.