DAILY LESSON PLAN: March 12- March 16

SUBJECT: Language A – GRADE 6 (MYP1) TEACHER: Lyttle

UNIT TITLE: Nonfiction: Reading for Information

COMMON CORE STANDARDS:
W.8.1, W.8.2, W.8.3, W.8.7, W.8.8 RI.8.3, RI.8.8, RI.8.9 RL.8.2, RL.8.9
SL.8.2, SL.8.3, SL.8.4, SL.8.5 L.8.3, L.8.5
AREA OF INTERACTION: Community and Service
We want our students to make connections between their nuclear family and humankind, as a world-wide family, and recognize their responsibilities to both. / APPROACHES TO LEARNING:
THINKING, COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION, ORGANIZATION, TRANSFER, INFORMATION LITERACY, REFLECTION
LEARNER PROFILE:
INQUIRERS, KNOWLEDGEABLE, THINKERS, COMMUNICATORS, PRINCIPLED, OPEN-MINDED, CARING, RISK-TAKERS, BALANCED, REFLECTIVE / 21ST CENTURY SKILLS:
ACCOUNTABILITY AND ADAPTABILITY, COMMUNICATION SKILLS, CREATIVITY AND INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY, CRITICAL THINKING AND SYSTEMS THINKING, INFORMATION AND MEDIA LITERACY SKILLS, INTERPERSONAL AND COLLABORATIVE SKILLS, PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION, FORMULATION, AND SOLUTION, SELF DIRECTION, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
MYP UNIT QUESTION:
Can information be trusted? / STUDENT OBJECTIVE:
Students will be able to analyze and integrate information presented in different media or formats.
LESSON PLAN CHECKLIST
VISUAL DISCOVERY / INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
RIGOROUS TEXT / COLLABORATION
WRITING / MODELING
VERBAL RESPONSE/SPEAKING/TEACHING / ASSESSMENT (TEACHER, SELF, PEER)

LESSON PLAN OUTLINE

Day / Agenda / Notes/Reminders
Monday / (Finishing Myth’s Legends and Tales)
1) What is theme? Use your daybook and/or textbook to help you remember. Look back in your textbook at the myths and tales we read last week. What is the theme of “Apollo’s Tree”? What is the theme of Arachne? What is the theme of “Uncle Septimus’s Beard”?
2) Complete the vocab in context in textbook on page 737.
3) Review characteristics of a tall tale, exaggeration, hyperbole.
4) Listen to “Uncle Septimus” on Audio CD. Stop at targeted passages and margin close read questions, discuss as a class.
5)Students will create a timeline with pictures on copy paper illustrating the events in the story.
6) Independently answer questions 1-7 on page 744.
Tuesday / UNIT TEST ON MYTHS AND LEGENDS. Page 792-797 in textbook.
STEM TEST
Wednesday / 1) Warmup: In daybooks list the top 10 things you should ALWAYS do in the media center and the top 10 things you should NEVER do in the media center.
2) Library Day
3) Brer Rabbit Storyteller Video (saved in favorites)
4) Have students finish the story in their daybooks. The story ends with different possibilities for a conclusion. Students will create various endings for the story.
5) Ananzi video, African Folktale (saved in favorites).
Thursday / Introduction to nonfiction
1) Warmup: Mini Story Prompt (saved in PPT)
2) Table Top Twitter with a Twist: Each student will have a “twitter account” on their desk. They’ll spend 2 minutes answering the questions on their page. The students will then circulate the room “tweeting” on other “twitter accounts” to discuss our essential question: Can information be trusted?
3) Students will independently fill in the notetaking handout using pages 894-896 to help them. We’ll go over this as a class.
4) In partners students will read the web article “Hurricane Hunters”. Together they’ll answer the close read questions in their daybooks.
Friday / 1) Warmup: Mini Story Prompt (saved in PPT)
2) Students will independently fill in the notetaking handout using pages 894-896 to help them. We’ll go over this as a class.
3) In partners students will read the web article “Hurricane Hunters”. Together they’ll answer the close read questions in their daybooks.