Week 5 - Lessons and Reflection using Blogger My Lesson I and II Discussion Strategies (golden lines and graffiti board) were chosen because they provided interactive ways for students to truly connect and engage creatively and respectfully. For Lesson I (golden lines), this would allow for students to seek and write out specific passages they felt were of importance and see what their peers were also thinking, how many had similar or different golden lines, and have students craft a response to a different student’s chosen golden line and why it was important. If golden lines were similar, students could still provide their viewpoints which could compare or contrast with one another while still creating for a fun, learning atmosphere. With Lesson II, today’s generation of students are very much in tuned with technology. Students enjoy looking for anything on the internet that can be shown to or used with their friends...
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Unit Title: 6 th Grade – “Going High Tech - Padlet Activity” Part II: Lesson Focus— GRAFFITI WALL Overview: Students will read The Pearl and complete two of the four activities on Padlet as a focus on literary terms. This will give a graffiti wall effect as the images, responses, quotes and ideas are integrated on one visual platform. How to access Padlet: Type in the Padlet link Click on the key symbol on the right side of the page to sign up for a free Padlet account Double click anywhere on the board to add your work. These are the activities you can CHOOSE from ( select two ): 1. Find something visual that can represent the setting of The Pearl . You may look for a picture, an artifact or a work of art that shows what you visualize when you think of the setting of The Pearl . Post the picture on Padlet. Wr...
Unit Title: 6 th Grade – Conversationally Speaking Part I: Lesson Focus— Traditional Golden Lines Book: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Central Focus/ Purpose/Rationale The students will be doing this lesson to analyze how a particular “golden line” is connected to the story, its deeper meaning and the effect it has on the reader. The content of the learning segment is the student’s ability to distinguish important or symbolic lines of the story. This lesson will allow students to practice drawing inferences from the story and determining the meaning of certain lines at a greater context of the novel. Students will learn that there can be varied interpretations of a “golden lines” importance and effect on the story which will force them to think more critically and learn of others viewpoints as well as how the use of specific “golden lines” have an overall effect as a reader. Alignment with Standards - Common Core and Conten...