Greetings! Find our agenda below. Note: We are launching a project this week, which will span approximately three weeks. The end goal is for students to demonstrate their knowledge by creating an authentic and well-researched historical fiction storybook. We will be spending every other day in the media center starting on Wednesday.
Monday:
1. Quick Write: Share reflections from the Colter Bay Indian Arts Museum trip on Friday. What details enticed us? What connections can we make to our classroom learning?
2. American Indian Boarding Schools: This will start as a shared reading with modeled note taking – practice for the start of research on Wednesday. Students will finish in small groups.
Tuesday:
1. If needed, complete the boarding schools reading/notes (These will be collected, but not graded)
2. Read Aloud - Code-Talkers: We will be using this historical fiction storybook as a model of the genre. Students will be asked to identify the fact/fiction in this piece.
3. Introduction to the storybook unit assessment. Students will see examples of student work from previous years, read the general directions and look through a media center research collection in pursuit of an interesting topic of research.
HW: Brainstorm/write two topics and plot ideas for storybook projects. We will share these tomorrow.
Wednesday:
***This is our first day in the media center! Students will be getting used to Discovery, the new district media center cataloging tool. Students will have the goal of finding their first resource, targeting useful information and take helpful notes.
Sign-ups for project topics today!
Thursday:
1. Group process: What worked and what did we struggle with in the media center yesterday? How can we prepare for tomorrow?
2. SIGH Image Analysis: Trail of Tears
3. Trail of Tears: We will do a short, shared reading and view a brief video clip on this human tragedy.
Friday:
Day 2 in the media center. We will focus on strategies for targeting useful information and recording it in a way that can be accessed later. Goal: Students will have found their second research resource and begun taking notes.