Excel Classmr. Becker's Classroom



Excel Summer Enrichment Class The Armada Excel program offers students the ability to get a head start on the upcoming year through skill development. Students will work on their required Summer Reading Projects during this time; full completion of the Excel class will replace the requirement of the independent project.

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Learning Targets

I can explain how authors use textual evidencewithin fictional characters to make them more believable and real.

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We will be able to gather textual evidence to explore controversial ideas and then successfully defend different viewpoints.

Common Core State Standards

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W.9.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

a. Introduce precise claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that establishes clear relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.

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b. Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly, supplying evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level and concerns.

c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.

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d. Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.

e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.

W.9.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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a. Apply grades 9–10 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work [e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare]”).

b. Apply grades 9–10 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning”).

SL.9.3.Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.

üQuestioningand discussion techniques:

üEngagingStudents learning

üDemonstratingflexibility and responsiveness

üCommunicating withstudents

ü Instruction and Assessment: Domain 3: Standards 3, 4, 6


Excel Classmr. Becker's Classroom

Time/min

Deliverability

Instructional Strategy

Day 1

Tuesday

0-5

anticipatory set
Teacher read

Calvin and Hobbs

5-15

Visual prompt

Journal:Two contrasting images:What do you notice about these two images.

15-20

Discuss prompt

20-30

Art comparison

15-25

Plan B:Story about the unsolvable problem.Heinz's dilemma

25-30

Vote

Hand out voting paper.Have students vote.Is the husband justified in breaking the law to save his wife's life?
Don’t reveal results yet

30-40

Guided instruction

Explain Double Entry notes to the students.They will journal while we read.
Column one: a quote word or phrase.
Column two: a corresponding question or comment that supports their character.

Guided discussion

Discuss argument for the remainder of class

Acc. English

Split class into opposing Argument groups

HW. Read part I 'The Most Dangerous Game.'

Take two column notes.

Day 2

Wednesday

0-5

Journal

Prompt: Is it within your power to decide if rules can be broken?Should rules remain concrete?

5-15

Teacher lead

Introduce The Most Dangerous Game.Brief summary of characters.Remind students of the word exercises in Charge of the Light Brigade.Background on Characterization of Rainsford

15-30

Image Comparison


Have two images prepared for analysis, one to represent Rainsford and the other to represent what Gen. Zaroff may have been like.

Show the first and have students openly describe what they see

Show the second and have them compare the two

Discussion about the characters in The Most Dangerous Game' using the differences in the images as examples.

15-20

English 9: Guided instruction

Activity Observation Assessment


Review Argument process from 'The Charge.'

The Argument Debate
Split class into two groups and remind students of the discussion we had on argument in literature in our intro to the class.

Sides
Half the students will look for evidence that support Zaroff as a good man who wants to help Rainsford
Half the students will look for evidence that support there is something untrustworthy about Zaroff.

20-30

English 9: Guided instruction

Read up through paragraph 84: In double entry notes, have students record:
Practice looking for supporting argument evidence
Two quotes that they feel supports their argument.
A vocabulary word within each quote that is the most significant
After finished, predict what will happen at the end of the double entry notes

30-40

English 9: Independent work

Studentscollaborate with each other and share their reasons for the notes they took
Each group should generate a statement including evidence supporting their argument.
Assignment: To be turned in before the end of class along with the journals

30-40

Acc. English

Activity: Small debate

Day 3

Thursday

0-10

Teacher lead Class Discussion.PowerPoint slide

No bell activity.Discuss the questions generated by each side of the argument.
New Argument: Sides

The students will look for evidence that support Rainsford is justified in being completely against killing another human being.

Students will look for evidence that Zaroff is justified in hunting human beings

10-20

Guided instruction

Back story: Characterization of General Zaroff's (back story), connect it to the Charge of the Light Brigade. Have students take notes about Zaroff's background

20-30

Independent reading

Read through paragraph 167 as a class: Remind students about double entry notes requirements:
two quotes that they feel supports their argument.
A vocabulary word within each quote that is the most significant
After finished, predict what will happen at the end of the double entry notes

30-40

Small Groups

Observation Assessment


Studentscollaborate with each other and share their reasons for the notes they took.
Each group should generate a statement including evidence supporting their argument.
Argument: Debate

Day 4

Friday

Maybe add a day and insert an activity

0-10

Guided instruction.Prezi

No bell activity.Discuss the questions generated by each side of the argument.
New Argument: Evidence that Rainsford has decided Killing a human being is acceptable.

10-25

Student read

Finish Story:Remind students about double entry notes requirements:
underline a quote that they feel supports their argument.
Circle the vocabulary word within each quote that is the most significant
When finished record markings in double entry notes

25-40

Teacher lead

Classroom discussion about the story.
Allow students to generate discussion with comments and readdress the essential quesiton. Who decides what is write or wrong? How does this apply in your own lives.
Inform students of the next days assignment

Day 5

Friday

Individual Work

Assessment: Through their own perspective, students will write a well organized paragraph taking a stand on one side or the other, using evidence from The Most Dangerous Game to support their argument.

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