One thing that is a basic necessity for human beings to thrive, besides the basic food and water, is relationships. This studio will examine relationships through a text called "A Midsummer Night's Dream" a Shakespearean play about love and unrequited love. The outcome of this studio will be to write an informative paper about healthy relationships.
Understanding the importance of building and maintaining a healthy relationship is essential in creating a satisfying life. Through working through the competencies and utilizing graphic organizers we will not only learn about relationships, but we will also develop our reading and writing skills.
In this studio you will earn your credit by completing assignments and Performance Tasks. You will work your way through each one gaining knowledge and understanding of several of the competencies. These competencies are then graded and contribute to your grade for the course. The following competencies will be assessed in this studio:
ELA 1 Reading Critically
ELA 2 Writing Effectively: Informational
ELA 3 Collaborative Discussion
ELA 4 Conducting Research
In the Launch portion of this studio you will complete two assignments that will help you better understand the characters in the story and the different types of poetry. Here you will find two assignments L1A1 which helps understand the characters and L1A2 which provides examples of poetry and how it is written.
In this Milestone we will develop your reading skills and strategies. We will use the learned strategies to help you develop your understanding of the selected text "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This milestone will help develop your understanding of tools that can be used to create a better understanding of a text and the deliberate choices an author makes to create an intended purpose. You will find assignments M1A3 through M1A6. These all work together to help prepare you to complete your performance tasks 1 and 2.
In this Milestone we will take our readings from the previous milestone to develop a conversation about the stories, poems and their relation to love and relationships. Milestone 2 is centered around collaborative discussion. In this milestone you will learn what it takes to have an academic conversation, as well as practice having one with a peer. In the collaborative discussion you will take a stance on specific aspects of the book and you will support and defend your perspective. You will also need to learn to actively listen, consider, and respond to both agreeing and disagreeing perspectives. You will find two Performance Tasks in this milestone PT 3 and 4.
Milestone 3 is the first step in creating an informational document that centers around love and healthy relationships. In this section you will learn about how to assess sources to determine its viability as well as collecting data from reliable sources to use for your informational paper. It is important that we learn to consider the source, to determine its credibility rather than take information as it is delivered. Especially in the world today information comes to use in a wide variety of ways: social media, news, blogs, and individuals. We must learn to determine if we should take the information for face value or disregard the information based on the credibility and viability of the source. This milestone will help you do that. It will also help you create questions and ways to organize information to be able to use in the next Milestone. Here you will find assignment #7 and #8. You will demonstrate your knowledge with performance task #5 and #6
In this final milestone you will learn about the writing techniques demonstrated with the informational genre, as well as, implementing them into your informational paper. The final piece will be a paper you created for your peers as to reasons why healthy relationships are vital. Although this milestone only has 1 performance tasks embedded in them are 6 different competencies. Within this section you will find assignment #9-11 and your final performance task.