Discussion+Questions

**Project Description:**

 * =====Design a lesson to implement in your classroom that demonstrates your current understanding of 21st century teaching and learning in a standards-based learning environment. Our goal is for you to be able to ground our conversations around 21st century teaching and learning in actual classroom practice.=====
 * =====The lesson must include elements of 21st century content, pedagogy, and technology. Use the 21st Century Teaching and Learning document as a guide.=====
 * =====Begin your lesson design by determining clear student learning targets.=====
 * =====Work in groups of two or more.=====
 * =====You will then use this wiki to publish your lesson. This wiki will be the public face of the TPACK Academy.=====
 * =====Additional resources are on the @Resources page of this wiki and on the TPACK Academy moodle.=====

**Steps to Consider:**

 * 1) =====What standards do you need to meet with this project?=====
 * 2) =====What would you like students to understand? (Clear learning targets)=====
 * 3) =====What are your essential questions?=====
 * 4) =====What kind of authentic task can you design for your students to demonstrate their understanding? (Summative and formative)=====
 * 5) =====What supporting activities or tasks need to be completed to help your students construct their understanding?=====

= = =What is our clear learning target?=

1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. 2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text. 3. Analyze how complex characters (e.g. those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme
 * STRAND** - Reading for Literature
 * DOMAIN** - KEY Ideas and Details
 * Learning Targets** -

4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text and analyze the cumulative impact of several word choices on meaning and tone (e.g. how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone
 * DOMAIN** - Craft and Structure

Technology Integration - PowerPoint; WIKIs for group planning (need to explicitly state the technology used)


 * Formative Assessment - QUESTIONNAIRE / OPINIONNAIRE**

=Formative Assessment on THEME - Graphic organizer on Theme / character /= = = =THEME TEAMS -= = = =I can, within a group, use textual evidence to analyze in detail the development of a theme statement over the course of Romeo and Juliet.= = = =Possible Theme Statements:= =Young adults often make rash decisions because they don't think through the consequences of their actions.= = = =Young adults often rebel against or don't listen to authority figures (parents, teachers, etc).= = = =People are sometimes not mature enough to tell the difference between infatuation and real love.=

I can identify the difference between flat and round characters in Romeo and Juliet
 * define flat and round

I can analyze different characters by employing the elements of characterization for each round character
 * what the character says (monologue and dialogue)
 * what the character does (action)
 * what other characters say about them
 * What they look like
 * What the character is thinking (soliloquy)


 * Formative Assessment** - I can complete a graphic organizer by identifying the elements of characterization for each designated character

Romeo - Juliet - Friar Lawrence - Tybalt Mercutio  Nurse -- Benvolio


 * SUMMARY STATEMENT - THE GOAL OF THIS UNIT IS TO ASSESS STUDENTS' ABILITY TO IDENTIFY ELEMENTS OF CHARACTERIZATION AND ANALYZE HOW CHARACTERS INTERACT TO DEVELOP AND SUPPORT THE VARIOUS THEMES THROUGHOUT THE PLAY OF ROMEO AND JULIET.**


 * NEXT STEP - CREATE THE GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS AND/OR OPIONNAIRE. SPLIT UP FOR THE TECH PIECE. **
 * ORGANIZE THE UNIT INTO ACTION STEPS. **