Abstract The following is an impact on student learning for a two week unit on Lorraine Hansberry’s This impact includes an analysis of context and learner A Raisin in the Sun. characteristics, assessment data (diagnostic, formative, and summative), data analysis, and follow-up plans for continued student development and learning. One of the main objectives of the unit was to make students more knowledgeable and aware about discrimination in the housing market so that they would be able to make connections between Hansberry’s play and their own communities to demonstrate how discrimination still persists through their work and classroom discussions. The common core standards addressed in this unit deal with citing textual evidence and making inferences (RI.11-12.1), analyzing the central themes of the text writing narratives that demonstrate their learning on key concepts (W.11-12.3), and presenting the information that they learned in a manner that is creative and meaningful Unit artifacts and samples of student work can be found at the end of this impact paper. To protect the confidentiality of students, names of students are not included in this impact paper.
Abstract The following is an impact on student learning for a two week unit on Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. This impact includes an analysis of context and learner characteristics, assessment data (diagnostic, formative, and summative), data analysis, and follow-up plans for continued student development and learning. One of the main objectives of the unit was to make students more knowledgeable and aware about discrimination in the housing market so that they would be able to make connections between Hansberry’s play and their own communities to demonstrate how discrimination still persists through their work and classroom discussions. The common core standards addressed in this unit deal with citing textual evidence and making inferences (RI.11-12.1), analyzing the central themes of the text writing narratives that demonstrate their learning on key concepts (W.11-12.3), and presenting the information that they learned in a manner that is creative and meaningful Unit artifacts and samples of student work can be found at the end of this impact paper. To protect the confidentiality of students, names of students are not included in this impact paper.
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