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Teachers: Subject:
Danielle Heffner 8th grade English Language Arts
Team members: Addeliese Watts, Kaylin
Stewart
Key vocabulary: Sources, characteristics, compare, Materials: 3 different colored pens/pencils, Venn
contrast, analyze. diagram template, laptop or phone, highlighters,
additional paper for notes.
Opening (state objectives, connect to previous learning, and make relevant to real life)
o Opening activity: Instructor will pose the following question to students: “what characteristics make an
individual a pirate?” Each student will be required to identify one characteristic (2-3 minutes).
o Utilizing the topic of pirates is a method of engaging students in a lesson aimed at making students
proficient in analyzing the content of numerous sources.
o An informal discussion serves a quick and easy method of introducing students to the topic of the
lesson.
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o In hearing their peers responses, students will be presented with perceptions that differentiate from
their own. This will serve as an introduction into the following lesson focused on conflicting information.
o The instructor will transition into the following lesson by telling students something along the lines of:
“See how different your responses were? Maybe some of your perceptions were formed off of famous
movies while others formed perceptions based on books or articles.”
requirements of the assignment and provide o Students are expected to adhere to the procedural
students with the 2 sources they will analyze to expectations set forth by the instructor in addition
complete the assignment. to producing a completed Venn diagram.
o See “Levels of Mastery” valuation o Such as highlighting while reading, taking
above. notes while watching the video clip, etc.
o The instructor will monitor student progress o Students will be provided with different colored
and redirect students if necessary. writing utensils to complete their diagrams as a
o Ex: Redirect students is they are not means to enhance learning through increased
highlighting within the written source. visual clarity.
o Ex: Refocus students who may be o Halfway through the activity, students will need to
ignoring the presented sources and explain to the group one characteristic they have
gathered from the sources and articulate how they
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are arbitrarily filling in the diagram made the inference. Their peers will then have to
based on prior knowledge. decide if they believe there is adequate support for
o If the instructor observes students struggling to the claim being made.
complete the activity, the students will be o Ex: A student may respond with “pirates
placed in pairs halfway through the activity as are greedy because Captain Jack Sparrow
a means to utilize cooperative learning to was seen hoarding treasure in the video
bolster understanding and guide behavior. clip.”