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| Lesson: The Traits of Effective Writing | |
| Written Curriculum: Learning Standards Outcomes Resources: | Learning Standards Process 3052 Proofread writing for approriateness of organization, content, style, and conventions. SE 9.2C (Maintenance) 3053 Edit drafts for specific purposes such as to ensure standard usage, varied sentence structure, and appropriate word choice. D (Maintenance) 3056 Respond productively to peer review of his/her own work. SE 9.5B (Maintenance) 3057 Evaluate how well writing achieves its purposes and enagage in conversations with peers and the teacher about aspects of his/her own writing and writings of others. D (Maintenance) Evaluation 3068 Collaborate with the writers to develop ideas, revise and edit a variety of written texts. D (Maintenance) Outcomes: Students' tasks: -follow the steps involved in the writing process -think critically to evaluate effective writing -assess the quality of graphic stories -interacting and collaborating to create digital graphic stories Student project/product: -oral and written interaction and collaboration on the traits of effective writing -digital graphic stories Resources: Prentice Hall:Timeless Voices-Timeless Themes-Gold Level Suggested selections: "Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan pp. 224-231 "The Cask of Amontillado Quickwrite papers, blogs, wikis, Learning Logs, student-made charts, portions of sample texts annotated, Criteria chart http://www.trailofbreadcrumbs.com/studentsamples/2004/CollGr10-4s.doc (A collection of successful student compositions from which teachers can choose papers to share and discuss with their students) http://www.trailofbreadcrumbs.com/studentsamples/2004/CollGr10-1s.doc (A collection of unsuccessful student compositions from which teachers can choose papers to share and discuss with their students) |
| Taught Curriculum: | A: Implementation of activities following Gagne's 9 events in teaching and learning Event 1: Gain attention Students view teacher-made powerpoint presentation of the writing process and the elements of excellent narrative stories like use of dialogues, sensory details, literary devices with examples from songs, daily conversations, movies and literary texts. The powerpoint presentation will have multimedia elements like video clips, songs and podcasts . Students may also view some examples of digital graphic novels from Storyline online Event 2: Informing learners After the presentation, we will discuss what graphic short stories are and visit web sites about graphic novels like artbomb.net, rationalmagic.com and teachingcomics.org. We will compare and contrast graphic novels with comic books. We will also talk about how graphic novels are being used by teachers in other schools, and how they increase student motivation to read and improve students’ reading comprehension and writing skills. Students create and make presentations on their digital graphic novels -using multimedia elements in their presentations -assessing the effectiveness of presentations Students' projects/products: -multimedia presentations of digital graphic stories -written assessments of the effectiveness of presentation |
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