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 Lesson Plan: Evaluating Web sites to Research Setting of To Kill a Mockingbird Grade 9 Three (3) 50 minute class periods

MASTERY OBJECTIVES: After completing the lesson, the student will be able to
 * evaluate the credibility/authority of a Web site.
 * identify events that contribute to the political and social climate of the 1930s and 1950s in the deep South.
 * synthesize information obtained from multiple sources to write a clear and coherent summary
 * construct and link wiki pages with embedded content
 * demonstrate understanding of research topic by presenting information in a

 ACTIVATORS:  Day One: Students view slideshow of images from the Great Depression and Jim Crow Era.  Day Two: : Wordle

 CONNECTION TO PREVIOUS LEARNING: Day One: Students watch Great Depression/Jim Crow slideshow and complete KWL survey to activate prior knowledge. Day Two: Students brainstorm terms and ideas related to their topic and create a Wordle.

 AGENDA: Day One
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Procedure ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Duration in MInutes ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Objective ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Students view slideshow/video. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activate prior knowledge and engage students. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KWL Survey ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Students complete KWL Pre-work Survey. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activate prior knowledge. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KWL Survey ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Teacher/students read Web Quest Introduction aloud. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read/listen closely for comprehension. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Student questions (Skype chat) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Students begin Web Quest by reading/listening to Voki presentation of Task. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read/listen closely for comprehension. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Student questions (Skype chat) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Students use graphic organizer to designate roles, set goals, and create a timeline for project. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Determine roles and set goals to achieve outcomes. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Graphic organizer/observations ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Students begin research by linking to witnesses/research sites and evaluating relilability using Witness/Web site Evaluation Survey. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 17 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluate the authenticity, accuracy, appropriateness, and bias of Web sites. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Witness/Web site Evaluation Survey ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. Students complete "Ticket to Leave": KWL Survey. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify key historical events/conditions that contribute to the setting of TKAM. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KWL Survey ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Agenda: Day Two ** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Students use wordle to create a word splash of ideas related to their topic. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activate prior knowledge. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wordle ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Students note important facts from the most reliable site(s). || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 10 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Determine the important ideas in a text. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Case File (rubric) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Students write summary of facts; post in "Trial Notebook" wiki page. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 15 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Produce clear and coherent writing in which the organizatin and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Case File (rubric) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Students search for and insert visual and/or audio exhibits. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 15 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use technology to create and collaborate with others; make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of date to present information and enhance understanding. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Case File (rubric) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Students prepare Closing Argument. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15 || Summarize important points and write an argument to support claim using valid rasoning and sufficient evidence . ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Students complete "Ticket to Leave": What do you think are the benefits of working in collaborative groups? What are the challenges? || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reflect on peer collaboration. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Collaboration Survey ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Agenda: Day Three ** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Students present Closing Arguments and exhibits in chronological order. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">48 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activate prior knowlege. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wordle ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. "Ticket to Leave": KWL Survey. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Identify key historical events/conditions that contribute to the setting of TKAM || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KWL Survey ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Students present Closing Arguments and exhibits in chronological order. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">48 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activate prior knowlege. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wordle ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. "Ticket to Leave": KWL Survey. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Identify key historical events/conditions that contribute to the setting of TKAM || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KWL Survey ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Day One: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Find an additional, credible site for researching your topic. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. In Trial Notebook wiki page, post the web site URL and a brief explanation for why it is a reliable research site. If someone has already posted the same site, simply record your explanation below the link.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Homework: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Day Two: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Continue work on Case File and Closing Argument (if necessary).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Day Three: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Complete Peer Evaluation Survey.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Summarizers**: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Day One: Ticket to Leave: "Learned" section of KWL chart. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Day Two: Ticket to Leave: Peer Collaboration Survey. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Day Three: Ticket to Leave: "Learned" section of KWL chart.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Assessments**: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Formative: Teacher will use KWL Want to Know submissions to address immediate questions. Teachers will observe students, ask questions, and engage them in conversation during the lesson to gauge progress. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Summative: Trial Notebook (rubric); oral presentation (rubric).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Technology <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ELA
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Standards & **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">21st Century Skills **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluate the authenticity, accuracy, appropriateness, and bias of electronic resources, including Web sites.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use a variety of media to present information for specific purposes (e.g., reports, research papers, presentations, newsletters, Web sites, podcasts, blogs).
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning.