Unit+Plan+Assignment+Instructions


 * EDU 363 **
 * Unit Plan Project **
 * Spring 2013 **


 * Task: ** plan for a three to six week unit of instruction


 * Components: **

Provide a brief overview of the unit: the driving **goals** or **essential questions**; the primary **content/topics**, **skills**, and **concepts**.
 * Unit Overview **


 * Rationale **

Why are you teaching this? Why is it important for students to study this? Your rationale should demonstrate that you have considered both the needs/nature of adolescents and the nature of the subject matter.

Provide a list, with some narrative discussion, of the texts students will read and why you have chosen them – keeping in mind what the CCSS asks of students, in terms of texts.
 * Texts [Reading] **

 Literature: []  Informational Texts: []  Range, Quality, Complexity: []

Discuss 4-6 specific objectives that you will be focusing on throughout the unit. Again, provide rationale for why these objectives are important and how they connect to your broader goals. (in the end, these will end up connecting with the CCSS)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Objectives **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Assessment **
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Pre-assessment //**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Describe how you will do pre-assessment, prior to the unit, to determine what students know and where they are.
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Formative assessment //**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Discuss/describe/design three examples of formative assessment you might use throughout the course of the unit to determine how students are doing and to inform your instruction.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Summative assessment and other projects and assignments **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Discuss/design one form of summative assessment that can tell you, at the end of the unit, to what degree the students met your goals and objectives.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Design and describe two other projects/assignments that students will do during the unit. Discuss also how these will help students achieve the goals and objectives of the unit.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">At least **two** of your assessments/projects, etc, need to be in keeping with what the CCSS tell us about “text types and purposes for writing”:, and, in particular, the requirement that students learn how to write **//arguments//**, **//informative//** or **//explanatory//** texts, and **//narratives//**. <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Texts [Writing] **

<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Design three lesson plans you might teach during the unit. Make sure that they somehow tie in with your objectives, OR your assessments, OR your projects/assignments, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Lesson plans **

<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Create two student handouts. One should be for the unit as a whole, and should provide students (and also, perhaps, their parents) with general information about the unit. The second one should be for one of the more major assignments / assessments and should serve as an introduction to/overview of that assignment.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif;">Student handouts **