Description:
This lesson was designed for six grade students to become experts on Responding to Literature from reading Natalie Babbitt�s Tuck Everlasting. Students will answer questions from the bookshelf theme: We the People Bookshelf on the Pursuit of Happiness. Information will be gathered from multiple electronic and non-electronic sources and cited properly. The students will be actively engaged in a variety of stimulating activities developing social interaction skills, knowledge of computer systems and other pieces of technology, research, reading, critical thinking, and writing skills. Students will explore the "Life Cycle" and its importance of balance by creating a brochure, a newsletter or oral presentation, on the computer, using the builder website templates, about the spring water as a product. Students will also participate in a compare and contrast contest between the book and the movie.
Goals & Objectives:
Instructional Goals:
- Students will be able to successfully answer the information that they read about from the book.
- Students will gain a better understanding of how important happiness is in life.
- Students will gain a better understanding on comparing and contracting books to movies.
- Students will orally and visually share what they have learned the cycle of life.
Learning Objectives:
- Six grade students will perform a successful search of the Web resources and create documents based on the “Life Cycle.”With the information gained from the Web resources, students will be able to complete worksheets based on information literate from the reading.
- Students will work successfully to complete their assignments.
- Students will acquire enough information to orally and visually report their findings.
- Students will learn how to compare and contrast.
Motivational Goals:
- Generate interest in the research process.
- Build students’ confidence in their ability to learn and use information skills.
- Maintain students’ interest in the research process.
- Reinforce students’ confidence in their ability to learn and use information skills.
- Promote students’ satisfaction in their research accomplishments.
- Encourage students’ on-going confidence in their ability to learn and use information skills.
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Procedures:
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