Title: Media Messages Mini-UnitTopic: Media MessagesEducational Standards: 9.2 The student will produce, analyze, and evaluate media messages.Subject Area: English 9
In this unit students study the California migrant farm workers' fight for justice. Lead by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, this time period is often referred to as the start of the Latino civil rights movement. Over the course of the unit students will explore what life was like for migrant farm workers in the 1960s and the barriers that prevented them from obtaining better wages and equitable working conditions. Students will then learn about how the farm workers were able to band together under the leadership of Larry Itliong, Cesar Chavez, and Dolores Huerta to launch a multi-year movement focused on using nonviolent tactics as a way of making meaningful, long-lasting change. In particular, students will analyze how different types of nonviolent protests (boycotts, pickets, marches, strikes, and fasting) helped educate the public and influence change. Understanding the history of migrant farm workers and their struggle for justice is important for helping students understand the world around them. It is important to note that this unit is based in history. Many of the ideas and concepts in this unit are connected to current events; however, the focus of the unit is on this period in history.
In reading, this unit helps students continue to build their informational reading skills. Over the course of the unit students will be pushed to think about the connection between two or more historical events and people. Unlike previous units, this unit contains a variety of primary sources and videos that require students to use different reading and speaking and listening strategies in order to synthesize and summarize key ideas.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch LaTissha Boyce teach about how to use a mind map to brainstorm ideas before writing an essay or paragraph in a creative and unique way.
The teacher will read a story to the class and allow for discussion of what has happened and ask for predictions. Students will use hands-on manipulatives and stories to debug algorithms while also working on editing sentences for capitalization, punctuation and spelling.
The student will investigate and understand simple machines and their uses. Students are learning the purpose, function and environmental examples of simple machines in their daily lives. These comprehension “mix-ups” are a great way to monitor students’ understanding of the content along with checking reading comprehension.
The student will demonstrate an understanding of the lives of the native people and locate the three American Indian language groups. Fourth grade students are learning about American Indians and the three major language groups spoken in Virginia. These comprehension “mix-ups” are a great way to monitor students’ understanding of the content along with checking reading comprehension.
The students will locate Virginia and its bordering states on maps of the United States.
The students will also locate and identify important water features of Virginia. Fourth grade students are learning about bordering states as well as bodies of water that were important to the early history of Virginia. These comprehension “mix-ups” are a great way to monitor students’ understanding of the content along with checking reading comprehension.
This lesson remixes an original lesson plan entitled "The Poetry of Emily Dickinson" by Melissa Strong: Melissa Strong. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America
In this lesson, activities 1 and 2 from the original source are combined so that students emulate the writing style of Dickinson to write their own original poetry based on modern issues concerning women. An extension activity asks students to transfer their understanding of how literary elements shape meaning to different poets who each have a distinct style.
Background Information“The Moth” is a storytelling podcast that features real people telling short, engaging stories from their lives. We are going to become Identity and Conformity Detectives while listening! As we listen, we will search for ways identity and conformity have intersected in the lives of our storytellers.Essential QuestionAs you listen, consider this question: How does society shape our identities? Learning TargetsI can learn about conformity and reflect on the ways it impacts my life and identity.I can utilize audio media as a source to inspire ideas and analysis in my writing.
Students demonstrate comprehension in the form of a Movie Poster.
Multiple Meaning WordsDirections: Students will work in teacher-assigned pairs to determine the meaning and part of speech of words with multiple meanings. Students will then write grammatically-correct and correctly constructed sentences for each word. Each sentence must include context clues that allow the reader to determine the meaning of the word as it is being used in the sentence.
This lesson reviews citizenship expectations as students effectively communicate in small groups and the whole-class setting to prepare for a trip to the Science Museum! Students analyze and sort behaviors into categories, based on the attributes or actions described while reviewing vocabulary critical to a museum visit. Special thanks to the Science Museum of Western Virginia and the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts at Virginia Tech for their advisement and resource contribution to this lesson.
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This assessments fulfills the requirement for a VAAP local alternative assessment for writing 5-reporting category- research, plan, compose, and revise for a variety of purposes.
A project about identity and the impact of societal stereotypes and perceptions.
CLLD3.1- Foundations of Writing Drawing, scribbling, and writing to Communicate Modes and Purposes for Writing Represents all letters in their name, with sequencing, positioning, and reversals still evidenced
Springing off of the picture book The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi, students contemplate diverse cultures and customs before learning about how a computer program translates English to binary code. This resource combines ELA with computer science and includes interactive read aloud questions, a discussion about culturally diverse backgrounds, review of the prefix bi-, introduction of binary language (with a translation chart), and instructions to create binary bracelets.
The student will learn parts of a computer by exploration and creating their own computer.
The student will categorize words heard in a Jack Hartmann Youtube video as either nouns or verbs.
Title: Narrative Elements LessonTopic: Narrative ElementsEducational Standards: SOL 9.4Subject Area: English 9