I Am
UNIT ROLLOUT
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Unit Purpose:
Unit Purpose:
LESSON 1
LESSON 1
Guiding Questions:
Who am I?
What Is my identity?
What is my story?
IDENTITY - What does it mean? Build a classroom anchor chart
LESSON 2
LESSON 2
Watch ‘The Danger of a Single Story’ by Chimamanda Adichie
Each student watches individually with subtitles in their L1 (This talk has subtitles in 42 languages)
Watch it again with their visual thinking/sketchnoting journals
Watch it one more time as they annotate
Ss Share their annotations with a partner
LESSON 3
LESSON 3
Ss build their own identity webs using the Identity anchor chart to guide their thinking.
Resources - Anchor chart paper & thick markers
Teacher makes their own and uses it as mentor text
Lesson 4
Lesson 4
Writing & Sketchnoting
Writing & Sketchnoting
Read excerpt from 'The Terrible Two' by Mac Barnett and Jory John
1st Read - Out-loud as a class
2nd Read - Annotate & translate
3rd Read - Skektchnotes
Ss update their identity webs
Ss update their identity webs
Text resource from The Quickwrite Handbook by Linda Reif
Projects & Writing Tasks
Projects & Writing Tasks
Choose whichever projects allows for interdisciplinary opportunities
the History of my Name
the History of my Name
Assessment Focus: Informational Writing
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