Coming of Age and Auditory Response

Subject Area(s):

• K-12: Language Arts

Grade Level(s):

• 9th Grade

Description:

This lesson is designed for ninth grade students as an assist to Embedded Assessment I of the "Coming of Age" unit in (Collegeboard) Springboard Level IV text. It will be taught in collaboration with the English 9 instructor who will have taken the students through the exploration of coming of age in our society and others. Prior to this lesson the students will have: read a novel that meets the theme of coming of age, various short stories, and selected pieces of poetry.

Goals & Objectives:

Instructional Goals:

1. Students will access information effectively and efficiently.
2. Students will present information in a prescribed format.
3. Students will become familiar with the navigation of a specific website.
4. Students will understand the importance of proper citation.
5. Students will properly cite information.
6. Students will use multimedia to present a PowerPoint presentation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Students will work co-operatively in pairs.
2. Students will evaluate and select thematic support for a self selected written piece of literature.
3. Students will store data from several sources for synthesis.
   
4. Students will locate specified websites.

Motivational Goals:

1. Establish a cooperative learning environment.
2. Build students’ confidence in their ability to learn/use information skills.
3. Motivate students to continue to use information skills after the lesson.
4. Stimulate students to continue to synthesize information from multiple sources.

Materials:

See attached documents.

Procedures:

See attached documents.

Assessment:

See attached documents.

Supporting Files:

• 9th_Cover_etc._doc.doc
  
• AE_I_RUBRIC.xls
  
• EA_I_Coming_of_Age.pdf
  
• EA_I_Work_sheet_1_.doc
  
• Procedures_.badext
  
• Reward.doc
  

Standards:

Information Skills and Subskills (K-16)

Definition

• Identifies requirements of research task
• Determines amount/type of information needed to complete research task
• Considers potential topics

Selection

• Narrows topic to be explored
• Specifies subtopics or related keywords

Planning

• Identifies potential information sources
• Identifies potential formats for presenting results

Exploration

• Uses indexes and search engines
• Locates and accesses information resources
• Rethinks research topic
• Finalizes formulation of research topic

Collection

• Selects most appropriate information sources
• Skims/scans information sources
• Locates relevant information within selected sources
• Identifies and extracts relevant information from selected sources
• Evaluates quality of information and information source
• Recognizes when sufficient information has been obtained
• Stores information for potential future use

Organization

• Analyzes quality of information
• Filters out irrelevant information
• Summarizes/synthesizes/classifies final information
• Organizes final information for presentation

Presentation

• Assembles organized information for presentation
• Reviews presentation for grammatical, spelling, and other errors
• Cites sources appropriately
• Presents results
• 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

Listening and Speaking

• Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes

Viewing

• Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media

Media

• Understands the characteristics and components of the media