CI 350 Presentation

By David Spaulding

Target Audience and Subject

• Upper Level 10th Grade Students

• Reading and Examining Literature from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

State Objectives

• RLA.O.10.1.4 Apply various pre-reading skills and comprehension strategies.

• RLA.O.10.1.5 Evaluate the author’s use of specific information in text.

• RLA.O.10.2.1 Define topic from assigned subject/prompt and employ writing strategies that are modeled in various types of literature.

• RLA.O.10.2.6 Classify and prioritize different drafting strategies for specific writing tasks to frame a clear, logical progression of ideas.

• RLA.O.10.3.1 Plan, research background of topic, and communicate in different settings and for different purposes.

Media and Material

• Excerpt from “The Giver” (Chapters 1 and 2)• Excerpt from “Tom Sawyer” (Chapters 1-3)• Excerpt from “Twilight” (Chapter 1)• Handouts 1,2, and 3• Twitter Account• Student Response System

Will be used for:• Homework Reminders• Bonus Point Opportunities • Contacting Me

Day One

• Assign Short Essay• Hand out Tom Sawyer Excerpt• Give Students first Handout

Day Two

• Write Summary • Writing Refresher• Class Discussion• Giver Excerpt/Next Handout

Day Three

• Summary• Classroom Discussion• Presentation Assignment– Two Options

• Twilight Excerpt

Day Four

• Summary• Classroom Discussion• Give Essay Assignments (Handout)– Go over options

Day Five

• Place Students Into groups• Begin work on Rough Drafts• Topics: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing,

publishing, the author’s purpose/perspective, main and supporting details, and figurative and nonfigurative words.

Day Six

• Collect Rough Drafts• Final Presentation Work

TWITTER BONUS

Day Seven

• Revise Rough Drafts• Assign Presentation Dates• Give Final Paper Due Date

Day Eight

• First Half of Final Presentations

Day Nine

• Second Half of Presentations

Evaluate and Revise

• Evaluation Process– Points System– Bonus Points– Summary Points– Participation Points– Attendance

• Student Response System