Maggy M
Japanese Americans: Forced From and Finding Place During WWII
Unit Purpose: Students will work to increase confidence in source analysis and informative writing.
Note: Students have been completing "Writing Weeks" throughout the year. This is where we spend a week analyzing primary and secondary sources, then write a five paragraph paper. The paper that they compose in this unit will be their 4th paper this year.
Student Competencies:
1 Paragraph response to prompt about WWII unit:
I can review my knowledge of the unit.
I can identify source bias.
I can link evidence from the course to support my claim.
Five Paragraph Essay on Japanese American Incarceration
I can analyze primary source documents.
I can create a thesis statement.
I can interpret primary and secondary source documents.
I can analyze primary source documents.
I can use background knowledge to inform my analysis of a document.
I can organize information in a logical manner.
I can use a writing frame to construct an essay.
Above are the standards that lessons are tied to. Below, you will find the students' "I can..." statements that are tied to said standards.
Unit Calendar: Below is a layout of lesson plans for the unit. Links are attached in the Resources section of each day.
Note on Unit Creation:
The school that I work at utilizes UbD-Unit by Design. I enjoy using this process to create a unit, as you start from the ground up, first deciding what exactly you want students to take away from the unit, then creating an assessment, and at the end, creating your lessons at the end. It helps to keep me focused with my end goal in mind. Below is the entire UbD for this unit, and it shows the thought process a bit better than I can express within the reflection video.