IP+English+T1

=Instructional Plan/Learning Activities= and will find out the olympian they will be researching.
 * Content:**
 * Instructional Plan || Understanding || Know || Skills || MLR ||
 * 1.**Hook:** Students will watch a short film on the Olympics: [|Mickey Mouse Olympics]


 * Learning Activity**
 * Graphic Organizer**: KWL chart
 * Cooperative Learning:** Three - minute review
 * Technology**: Blogs
 * Artifact:** Blogging || Students will understand that each individual within the Olympics has a story behind their achievements by researching Olympian’s lives and non-fiction writing on their lives. || Students will know how to research certain individuals by reading biographies, auto-biographies, and other non- fiction sources and evaluate/ verify the credibility of the information found in the print and non-print sources. || **Students will be able to** describe events, achievements, personal information, and global contexts after reading nonfiction works. || Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and analyze the characteristics noting how structural features and common literary devices help shape the reader’s response.

Distinguish between primary and secondary sources. e. Evaluate and verify the credibility of the information found in print and non-print sources. f. Use additional sources to resolve contradictory information. ||
 * 2.**Hook:** Read a children's book on some sort of olympian and demonstrate how to sort that information.

**Graphic Organizer**:[|web chart] **Cooperative Learning:**Think- Pair- Share **Technology**:Inspiration communicate for a variety of audiences and purposes. a. Determine a purpose for writing. b. Decide which information is included to achieve the desired purpose. ||
 * Learning Activity**
 * Artifact**: Inspiration/ Glogster || Students will understand that each individual within the Olympics has a story behind their achievements by researching Olympian’s lives and non-fiction writing on their lives. || Students will know how to create a detailed and organized outline that reflects their research and the main points and sub points they plan to cover in their paper and presentation. || **Students will be able to** produce an outline that organizes the information they researched into a cohesive outline that transitions well and includes the critical information in few words. || Students use a writing process to
 * 3.**Hook**: watch a YouTube video on[| plagiarism].

**Learning Activity** **Graphic Organizer**: a online chart for sorting and documenting sources that students find. Podcast, youtube sources, and using proper citation.
 * Cooperative Learning:**group practice on plagirism activity
 * Technology**:
 * Artifact**: Podcast || Students will understand that plagiarism is not acceptable and violates the law since the content belongs to someone else. || Students will know that plagiarism is not acceptable and they will know how to properly site their research findings. || **Students will be able to** believe that plagiarism is wrong and understand how to notice what components go in what order when citing sources. || h. Present findings by paraphrasing, quoting

i. Use information ethically and legally. ||
 * 4**.Hook**: Selection of books on subject and articles to browse through and use for research.

**Learning Activity** **Graphic Organizer**: tips on brainstorming web for creating a story on their Olympian **Cooperative Learning:** Think- Pair- Share on questions and article clippings I had out on Olympic topics. **Technology**: Wikispaces
 * Artifact**:Wikispace || Students will understand that each individual within the Olympics has a story behind their achievements by researching Olympian’s lives and non-fiction writing on their lives. || Students will know how to summarize and apply the information they learn about the individual Olympian they are researching. || **Students will be able to** document their information about the Olympian they researched and their life with little effort and still include critical details. || Demonstrate comprehension by summarizing and making generalizations of whole texts, parts of texts, and across texts. ||
 * 5. **Hook**: Picture map and time line.

**Learning Activity** **Graphic Organizer**:T-Chart for compare/ contrast activity on time periods and ways of life **Cooperative Learning:** round robin fact game **Technology**: Comic Life
 * Artifact**: ComicLife || Students will understand that Olympians and the Olympics have evolved over the ages by listening and presenting the lives of an array of different Olympians who lived in different ages. || Students will know that each Olympian throughout time had their own achievements and story to tell, or leave behind, and students will know how to compare and contrast the similarities and difference of each story due to the individual and the different world settings that surrounded that individual. || **Students will be able to** compare/ contrast things about themselves and their lives as they see the stories of other great individuals and how they worked hard to achieve their desires and life dreams as well as see the similarities and differences throughout time in the different scenarios of each Olympian. || Students read and make generalizations from texts, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, by applying their knowledge and strategies of comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetics, and fluency.

a. Use a range of before, during, and after reading strategies to deepen their understanding of text(s). ||
 * 6. **Hook**: 15 minutes game on presentation skills

**Learning Activity** **Graphic Organizer**: 6 writing traits check list **Cooperative Learning:** group work on peer-editing papers, and creating their final product **Technology**: creating their i-move film strategies for formal and informal discussions, debates, or presentations appropriate to the audience and purpose. and Students identify the various purposes, techniques, and/or effects used to communicate auditory, visual, and written information found in different forms of media. ||
 * Artifact**: imovie || Students will understand that Olympians and the Olympics have evolved over the ages by listening and presenting the lives of an array of different Olympians who lived in different ages. || Students will know how to properly present themselves when giving a presentation and speaking in front of the whole class. They will know how to maintain their posture, eye contact, and how to project their voice enough that all can hear what they are saying. || **Students will be able to** recognize how to perform an effective presentation where students keep eye contact with their audience and project their information so that all can hear about their research and begin to see different perspectives and points of view by hearing of many different individuals. || Students adjust speaking