Big Idea: Possible Assessment Evidence: Possible Assessment Evidence: Possible Assessment Why do people ask conferences conversations Evidence: questions? Why do exit slip conferences conferences you ask questions? comprehension check-in inquiry presentation of goal setting What is a good listening activity findings sheet question? What is viewing activity mulit-media representation tracking the best question performance task progress you have ever asked? What is the hardest question you have ever tried to answer? What are some purposes of questions? What are some “burning questions” that inventors and discoverers have followed? To what question” “burning do you want to find the answer? How will you do it? January February Context: CR8.1 View, Social, listen to, read, CC8.1 Create various visual, oral, AR8.1 Use – (approx. 8 weeks) Cultural, comprehend, and and respond to a written, and multimedia texts that information gathered Historical variety of texts that address social explore social responsibility and in self-assessment responsibility and efficacy. efficacy. and teacher’s Thematic Theme: Heroes and assessment to Idols CR8.2 Select and use appropriate CC8.2 Create and present a group develop and work on strategies to construct meaning inquiry project related to a topic, goals for improving Big before, Idea: during, and after viewing, theme, or issue studied in English viewing, listening, How do we create listening, and reading. language arts. reading, representing, heroes and speaking, and writing. CR8.3 Use pragmatic, textual, How do heroes CC8.3 Select and use the syntactic, make a difference? appropriate strategies to AR8.2 Appraise own semantic/lexical/morphological, What qualities do communicate meaning before, and others’ work for
Big Idea: Why do people ask questions? Why do you ask questions? What is a good question? What is the best question you have ever asked? What is the hardest question you have ever tried to answer? What are some purposes of questions? What are some “burning questions” that inventors and discoverers have followed? To what “burning question” do you want to find the answer? How will you do it? Possible Assessment Evidence: conferences exit slip comprehension check-in listening activity viewing activity performance task Possible Assessment Evidence: conversations conferences inquiry presentation of findings mulit-media representation Possible Assessment Evidence: conferences goal setting sheet tracking progress January – February (approx. 8 weeks) Thematic Context: Social, Cultural, and Historical Theme: Heroes and Idols Big Idea: How do we create heroes and How do heroes make a difference? What qualities do CR8.1 View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address social responsibility and efficacy. CR8.2 Select and use appropriate strategies to construct meaning before, during, and after viewing, listening, and reading. CR8.3 Use pragmatic, textual, syntactic, semantic/lexical/morphological, CC8.1 Create various visual, oral, written, and multimedia texts that explore social responsibility and efficacy. CC8.2 Create and present a group inquiry project related to a topic, theme, or issue studied in English language arts. CC8.3 Select and use the appropriate strategies to communicate meaning before, AR8.1 Use information gathered in self-assessment and teacher’s assessment to develop and work on goals for improving viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and writing. AR8.2 Appraise own and others’ work for
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