Create a Journey into America's Past!

Subject Area(s):

• Higher Ed: Arts
• K-12: Language Arts
• Social Studies(general)

Grade Level(s):

• 7th-8th Grade

Description:

Students will write their own historical fiction stories based on their research of a time period and an event in American History. This lesson is meant to be taught as a collaborative effort between the school library media specialist and an eighth grade English Language Arts teacher.

Goals & Objectives:

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Materials:

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Procedures:

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Assessment:

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Supporting Files:

• Timeline with web links Hendrick.doc
  
• Historical Fiction Lesson Plan II.doc
  
• Research Rubric.doc
  
• Story Rubric.doc
  
• Bibliograpy and citation handout.doc
  

Standards:

National Information Literacy Standards (K-12)

Accesses information efficiently and effectively.

• Recognizes the need for information.
• Identifies a variety of potential sources of information.
• Develops and uses successful strategies for locating information.

Evaluates information critically and competently.

• Determines accuracy, relevance and comprehensiveness.
• Selects information appropriate to the problem or question at hand.

Uses information accurately and creatively

• Organizes information for practical application.
• Integrates new information into one's own knowledge.
• Applies information in critical thinking and problem solving.
• Produces and communicates information and ideas in appropriate formats

Appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information.

• Derives meaning from information presented creatively in a variety of formats.
• Develops creative products in a variety of formats.

Strives for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation.

• Assesses the quality of the process and products of personal information seeking.
• Devises strategies for revising, improving, and updating self-generated knowledge.

Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Respects intellectual property rights.
• Uses information technology responsibly.

Participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information.

• Shares knowledge and information with others.
• Respects others' ideas and backgrounds and acknowledges their contributions.
• Collaborates with others, both in person and through technologies, to identify information problems and to seek their solutions.
• Collaborates with others, both in person and through technologies, to design, develop, and evaluate information products and solutions.
• Subject: K-12: Language Arts

National Content Standards (K-12)

Writing

• Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process
• Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing
• Uses grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions
• Gathers and uses information for research purposes

Reading

• Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process
• Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts
• Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts

Listening and Speaking

• Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes