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Driving Question: What does it mean to be a citizen?
Driving Question: What does it mean to be a citizen?
Standard(s) Addressed:
ELAGSE8RI2- Determine the central idea of a text.
ELAGSE8RI5- Analyze the role of specific sentences in developing a key concept.
ELAGSE8RI6- Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text.
ELAGSE8RI8- Evaluate the arguement and specific claims in a text.
Objective: Through a novel study of Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender and assorted informational texts, students will seek to determine what constitutes citizenship and what role civil disobedience plays in the lives of citizens.
Project Product: Student opinion pieces about citizenship and artistic representations of citizenship
Project Timeline:
Project Timeline:
Entry Event: Students engaged in an informal debate, as they considered the question of whether or not it was ever okay to break the law.
Project Milestones: Entry Event (Debate)> Study of civil disobedience (M.L.K.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"> Novel Study- Return to Sender> Drafting opinion writing> PBL choice options (artistic representations)> Project Reflections
Authentic Experts:
Authentic Experts:
Students listened to an interview with the author of the novel, as she explained her motivations for writing the book. We also listened to podcasts and viewed interviews with American citizens and documented and undocumented workers, as they shared their personal experiences and thoughts about citizenship.
What we already knew:
What we already knew:
Significant events that occured during the Civil Rights Movement
The definition of citizenship as defined in the dictionary
What a symbol is
How individuals are granted citizenship in the United States
What is meant by mood
What we needed to learn:
What we needed to learn:
How and why civil disobedience is/was used
How symbolism is used in literature
What is an undocumented worker?
How is tone different from mood?
What is meant by civil rights?
Project Reflections:
Project Reflections:
Products: Opinion Pieces & Artistic Representations
Products: Opinion Pieces & Artistic Representations
What we want to learn next:
What we want to learn next:
We would like to learn how we can take all that we now know and apply it to our own lives, in order to become better citizens ourselves.
Feedback and Reflection
Feedback and Reflection
Please leave reflect on our PBL journey and products using the "I like, I wish, I wonder" protocol in the padlet below.
HOW to use I Like, I Wish, I Wonder ProtocolExpress your thoughts and feedback to your child in sentences that begin with I Like, I Wish, I Wonder. Share all or your likes first, then wishes, and finally wonders.
Some EXAMPLES of how to use the protocol to give students feedback on their process: “I like how you described the use of technology to research new ideas.”“I wish that you would have included more information about possible answers to the driving question.”“I wonder how you could have included coding your project?
2020 Q2 (Dec) 8th Grade Comments.pdfPage updated
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