Area of Weakness: Vocabulary Skills Resouce Wiki: https://sites.google.

com/site/virtualvocabularyskills/ Title of Unit: Vocabulary Acquisition thru Poetry Grade Level: 9th & 10th Content Area: Literature & Composition Duration: 5 Days

CCGPS Standard: ELACC9-10L6: Acquire and use accurately general

academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

Standards for 21st Century Learner:

1.1.2 Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning. 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess. 3.2.3 Demonstrate teamwork by working productively with others.

Understandings: Students will be able to understand new vocabulary. Students will be able to understand the message in a poem. Students will be able to use technology to enhance vocabulary skills. Essential Questions:
Overarching Questions: 1. What are my vocabulary terms? 2. What is my poem about? 3. How can technology facilitate Topical Questions:
1. How do the vocabulary words enhance the meaning of the poem? 2. How can technology facilitate learning? How does technology support my learning new vocabulary?

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Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences

DAYS 1, 2, and 3 Day 1---Students will be taken to the media center to work with the media specialist on creating a glogster using their vocabulary words from the poem they read previously called Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind. (Prior to beginning the lesson, the media specialist will go over glogster and how to use it and show an example of glogster.) The media specialist will give each student a copy of the poem Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind. The poem will have several words highlighted throughout the poem. The class will use the highlighted words and create a classroom glogster using those words. At the end of the lesson as the students return to class, they will choose their own poem to analyze and create a glogster for. Day 2---Students will use the poem they have chosen and analyze the meaning of the poem. They will complete the poetry worksheet independently. Once the students complete the poetry worksheet, they will be allowed to partner up with students that chose the same poem and compare their findings. The teacher will assist the students and give feedback on the completed worksheets. Day 3---Students will look at the vocabulary words from their chosen poem and begin to create their glogster using those words. They will work in the computer lab. The media specialist and the teacher will both be in the lab together to assist the students with completing the vocabulary glogster requirements. Day 4 and 5 Day 4 ---Students complete the glogster requirements for their poem and vocabulary words and present them to the class. Day 5---Students will be given a vocabulary exercise to complete using the vocabulary words from their poem. This exercise would culminate the unit. Grading and Assessment

1. Participation in media centerDaily Grade 2. Participation in classroomDaily Grade 3. Individual Poetry AnalyzingDaily Grade 4. Partner Work---Daily Grade 5. Glogster DesignTest Grade 6. Glogster Presentation---Test Grade 7. Vocabulary ExerciseTest Grade RESOURCES: 1. Computer Lab 2. Poetry Guide 3. Glogster Handout 4. Vocabulary Worksheet 5. Copies of Selected Poems Additional Notes: Pre-Assessment Data & Teacher Consultation The students participating in this unit are all 9th or 10th graders. All the students are in special education classes. All of these students have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) and have been identified as having an academic deficit in reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. All of these students read below grade level and failed the reading portion of the CRCT during their 8th grade school year. They are all in a resourced English/language classroom taking a modified version of 9th and 10th grade Literature and Composition. Prior to this unit, they have been given several lessons on vocabulary skills acquisition but are in need of some lessons that incorporate technology while learning vocabulary skills.