IP+English+T4

=Instructional Plan/Learning Activities= English and Language Arts Grade 8 Space //The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy// by Douglas Adams
 * Content:**
 * Instructional Plan || Understanding || Know || Skills || MLR ||
 * 1.
 * Hook:** Pick your ending books.
 * Graphic Organizer:** Storyboard
 * Cooperative Learning:** Three-minute Review
 * Technology:** Podcast
 * Artifact:** Podcast || Students will understand that changes occur easily in literature. || Students will know plot, characters, setting, change, cause and effect. || Students will be able to show change in plot, characters and setting. || Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry within a grade appropriate span of text complexity and analyze the characteristic noting how structural features and literary devices help shape the reader's response. ||
 * 2.
 * Hook:** Rearrange story activity.
 * Graphic Organizer:** Flow Chart
 * Cooperative Learning:** Team-Pair-Solo
 * Technology:** Blog
 * Artifact:** Blog || Students will understand that characters impact and interact with their story. || Students will know characters, cause and effect, analyzing. || Students will be able to interpret how small decisions made by characters create larger changes in the storyline. || Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry within a grade appropriate span of text complexity and analyze the characteristic noting how structural features and literary devices help shape the reader's response. ||
 * 3.
 * Hook:** Short story--create your ending.
 * Graphic Organizer:** Story Map
 * Cooperative Learning:** Think-Pair-Share
 * Technology:** Comic Life
 * Artifact:** Comic Life || Students will understand that changes occur easily in literature || Students will know alternate endings, cause and effect. || Students will be able to use their knowledge of the effects of change to create alternate plot-lines for the story. || Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry within a grade appropriate span of text complexity and analyze the characteristic noting how structural features and literary devices help shape the reader's response. ||
 * 4.
 * Hook:** Turning point activity
 * Graphic Organizer:** Cluster /Word Web
 * Cooperative Learning:** Round Robin Brainstorming
 * Technology:** IMovie
 * Artifact**: IMovie || Students will understand that changes occur easily in literature || Students will know change, decisions, cause and effect, textual evidence. || Students will be able to analyze what they view as the most important moments in the text and supply evidence based on change. || Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry within a grade appropriate span of text complexity and analyze the characteristic noting how structural features and literary devices help shape the reader's response. ||
 * 5.
 * Hook:** What-if game
 * Graphic Organizer:** Timeline
 * Cooperative Learning:** Group Work
 * Technology:** Glogster
 * Artifact:** Glogster || Students will understand that characters impact and interact with their story. || Students will know cause and effect. || Students will be able to consider how real people are changed by small decisions. || Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry within a grade appropriate span of text complexity and analyze the characteristic noting how structural features and literary devices help shape the reader's response. ||
 * 6.
 * Hook:** Think ahead activity
 * Graphic Organizer:** Timeline
 * Cooperative Learning:** Think Pair Share
 * Technology:** Fodey
 * Artifact:** Fodey || Students will understand that characters impact and interact with their story. || Students will know cause and effect, change. || Students will be able to reflect on how decisions can change their future. || Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry within a grade appropriate span of text complexity and analyze the characteristic noting how structural features and literary devices help shape the reader's response. ||