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Unit 3: How we express ourselves
Unit 3: How we express ourselves
November 8th - December 17th
Central Idea: People create different ways to express and represent their reflections, feelings, ideas, and appreciation of the world.
Central Idea: People create different ways to express and represent their reflections, feelings, ideas, and appreciation of the world.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Use student build websites to blog about the experiences in class and progress.
Students present their knowledge daily to the whole class.
Students present their understanding from a book they have chosen to read. Conveying a clear lesson of the story through the reader's theater.
Student Agency
Student Agency
Voice: Acknowledging the responsibility to stick to their goal.
Choice: Being more organized in the classroom and station rotation.
Ownership: Holding each other accountable reflects on their subject goals and their plans to accomplish them.
Student Action
Student Action
Choose: A media topic/informational topic that the student believes has been manipulated to target specific audiences.
Act: Acknowledging the responsibility of being critical thinkers and identifying manipulated messages for a specific purpose.
Reflect: Making sure that the information they are researching about is reliable and not biased. Their final reflection shouldn’t be biased and should be well supported.
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Function: How does it work? The understanding that everything has a purpose, a role or way of behaving that can be investigated.
Causation: Why is it like this? The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
Responsibility: What is our responsibility? The understanding that people make choices based on their understandings, and the actions they take as a result do make a difference.
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Reading: Cause and Effect, central idea, text features, organizational patterns of text, Problem/Solution, figurative language
Math: Data (information), charts and graphs, fractions
Science: Landforms, weather and climate
Social Studies: Revolution
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