CUP+Assignment

=** Assignment Three: Curriculum Unit Plan **= = = The purpose of this assignment is for you to synthesize the work that you have done this semester by demonstrating __The Product:__ A curriculum unit plan WIKI that includes big ideas or core concepts, a rationale statement, and Introductory Lesson, Focus Lessons (9-12 days of lessons--3 days for each team member), and Assessment and Evaluation Plans for both formative assessment and evaluation that will allow you to assess **each** student in the class and your effectiveness as a teacher. These elements are explained more fully below.
 * your subject-area knowledge (AP 8.1),
 * your ability to apply the principles of effective instruction in English language arts (AP 10.1),
 * your ability to design lessons and activities that support critical thinking (AP 4.2),
 * and your knowledge of resources that can be used to enhance student learning and your own professional development (AP 3.3)
 * ESOL Standards 13 and 16

__What you will turn into me:__

A Link to a WIKI with the content: **You must give me access to the WIKI by sending an email to me BEFORE the WIKI is due. If I cannot access the WIKI, every member of your group will get an Incomplete grade.** *Please note that you must demonstrate the Accomplished Practices and ESOL Competencies assigned to this course with this assignment. If you do not do so, you will be invited to meet with me so that we can discuss what you need to do to improve your work.
 * 1) //Rationale:// An introduction to the unit complete with a rationale paper (7 page max) that explains
 * 2) Why this unit should be taught to adolescents
 * 3) What big ideas the unit will support. How will you organize the Unit? Why? (See Chapter 3 in //TLA//)
 * 4) How learning expectations are related to grade-level expectations (see FLDOE Website or SSS), a plan for introducing the unit and its concepts on the first day (this is what you will present in class).
 * 5) How this unit is connected to developing skills of reading literature (Langer, //TLA//, Jago, Rabinowitz, Vygotsky, Teaching Methods—Overt instruction, situated practice, critical framing, etc)
 * 6) How this unit and your instructional plans are related to effective teaching of reading and writing.
 * 7) An //Introductory Lesson// to introduce the lesson to the students. This should be an exciting, creative lesson to build student interest and to acquaint them with the unit. You will plan a 10-15 minute activity and prepare a handout for your "students" that contains information (texts, big ideas or questions you will be exploring, description of culminating project). The lesson and the handout will be presented during the last class period.
 * 8) //Focus Lessons: (Lesson Plans for all of the required days. These must be in the English Proteach Lesson Plan Format.)// A Unit is a series of lessons. You may not be including all of the lessons that would be part of the larger Unit in this project. For example, if you were teaching Romeo and Juliet, the unit might be longer than 9 to 12 days. The lessons you are turning in for a grade are the “Focus Lessons.” You need to provide a narrative (a few paragraphs) that explains what the students have done before the Focus Lessons and what they will do after the Focus Lessons. This narrative should include
 * 9) An introduction that explains in narrative form what your class did before the Focus Week. What background were they given? What other units of study have they experienced in your class? If the Focus Lessons are early in the school year, describe summer reading, standards, or previous experiences that are connected to the Focus Lessons. D__emonstrate__ cohesiveness.
 * 10) A concluding paragraph that explains in narrative form what students would do for the rest of the unit, what culminating project they will complete, and how the Focus Lessons contribute to the culminating project.
 * 11) //Assessment and Evaluation Plans:// An assessment plan for assessing student learning at least once during each person’s 3 days of lessons and at the conclusion of the unit plan. The //Evaluation Plan// for the conclusion of the unit. The EP should include a plan for evaluating both teaching and learning. In other words, you will need to think of how the students did individually and as a group. If you have an inordinate number of A's or F's, what might you as a teacher learn about how you can modify the lessons the next time? What questions will you ask at the end of the Unit? What learning or understandings would you expect students to be developing? These should be aligned with your goals.