Mini-Unit/lesson
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Description
of Mini-Unit/Lesson
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National Standard
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| A
Formal Analysis of Science Fiction |
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3, 5 |
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Students
will learn about various people from different cultures
who have kept journals for scientific, historical, and
creative purposes. |
1, 9 |
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Students
will make a bookmark with information about a public health
issue that will become part of a larger public health service
message. |
7, 8 |
| A
man of integrity and courage |
Read article about ethics of clinical
trials and discussion of implications |
1, 3 |
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Students
will read an article about America’s energy consumption
for understanding and to find instances of bias. |
3, 5 |
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Students
will watch a film about the voyage of the Endurance and
analyze the film’s representation of the expedition. |
8, 6 |
| Analyzing
Perspectives |
Students
will analyze the ways in which their own culture has been
determined, explain how these beliefs are lenses which
influence the way we look at life. |
5, 9 |
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This
lesson asks the students to apply their reading skills
to read and analyze a given article, and then will compose
a timed writing in order to thoroughly explain the process
of reading and comprehending the text. |
3, 5 |
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2 |
| Book
Review |
Students
will write a five paragraph theme that explains how the
novel which they read in this unit effectively utilized
various literary elements to portray the impact of a disease. |
1 |
| Breaking
through reading roadblocks! |
Students
will work together in “reading analysis groups” to
gain practice working with challenging texts and using
different reading strategies to understand them. |
3 |
Chalk
Talk
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Students
will perform a “chalk talk” to purge their
ides, perceptions, and observations of the working world. |
5, 11 |
| Coal
and Oil: Powering Our Way of Life |
Students
will brainstorm all the areas in which oil and petrochemicals
are used and the impact on American life if these become
scarce or highly priced. |
7 |
| Comparison
Contrast Essay |
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| Conditions
of Today |
Students
will use library research to look for evidence of contemporary
working conditions, with a focus on editorials. Students
will look for at least 3 examples and report to the class. |
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| Connecting
to Your Research on a Personal Level |
A
mini lesson on how to use a research journal. |
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| Conventions
and Proofreading
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Students
will edit their final project essays for spelling and grammatical
errors. |
6, 5 |
| Country
Display |
After seeing a model display made by
the teacher, students will do additional research on their
country and create visually appealing displays. |
11, 12, 7 |
| Create
A Commercial |
Students
will create an advertisement persuading the public to participate
in local recycling programs. |
4 |
| Current Events |
The
Youth Voices Project is described. Students are taught
how to recognize articles with significant information
and connections to the other core classes. |
1, 3 |
| Day
by Day |
Students
will read selected passages from the diary of Samuel Pepys
who lived in London in the 1660’s during the bubonic
plague’s devastation. |
2 |
| Debates |
Students will see how a formal debate is set up and what
rules of order are used. After doing research on an assigned
topic they will participate in a practice debate. |
4, 1 |
| Diary
Entry |
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| Disease
and Culture through Literary Time |
Review the impact that disease has had on various cultures and times. |
2 |
| Doing
research for a legal brief |
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3, 7 |
