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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, HEALTH AND REHABILITATION LESSON PLAN FORMAT
 * UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON

Teacher’s Name:** Mr. Thomas **Date of Lesson:** 9/22/13
 * Grade Level:** 9-12 **Topic:** Professorial Chatroom

__**Objectives**__

 * Student will understand that** when discussing literary works, you must use the right vocabulary and quote sections of the text to support your claims.
 * Student will know** How to identify small details in the text and analyze their importance to the text as a whole.
 * Student will be able to** recognize common literary devices and provide definitions for them)

__**Maine Learning Results Alignment**__
English Language Arts A. Reading A2. Literary Texts  Grades 9-Diploma: Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Stories  

Rationale: This lesson gets students acquainted with discussing literary works with their peers in a constructive manner. It introduces ways in which they can expand their use of common computer programs and allows them to educate each other about the text.

__**Assessment**__
The students will be creating an imaginary character, listing the character's traits on a graphic organizer. Along with their made-up credentials, each student must create a "Master Thesis" that their character came up with. The thesis must be based on the reading that was done for homework and it must reflect the student's actual thoughts on the story.
 * Formative (Assessment for Learning)**

The AIM chat sessions must be printed off by each student and brought to class. Each student will be graded based on their contributions to the discussions, not necessarily on how well they stayed in character. The graphic organizers will be handed in in-class, then examined and graded for effort and comprehensiveness. The Master Thesis statements will be collected the day after the assignment and graded for effort, grammar, syntax and professionalism.
 * Summative (Assessment of Learning)**

__**Integration**__ This lesson relies heavily on technology, specifically AIM. Students must use a computer with internet access to complete this assignment. The lesson also requires the student to be creative and role play a character while they are in the chatroom.

__Groupings__
Students are allowed to work in pairs or groups of three when designing their characters. They may work off of each other to come up with ideas that shape the personality they will inhabit during the assignment. After this stage, each student must pair up with one other person (three if there is an odd number of students) and get that persons AIM screen name. This is the person that they will be conversing with for the assignment.

__**Differentiated Instruction**__

 * Strategies**
 * Verbal:** Students get to talk to each other about their Aliases during class.
 * Logical:** Students must come to characteristically logical questions while in character.
 * Kinesthetic:** Students are using a computer keyboard.
 * Visual:** Conversation unfolds online instantly. Makes organization and focusing easy
 * Naturalist**: Assignment can be taken outside of the classroom.
 * Intrapersonal**: Student may work on the alias that they have chosen by themselves
 * Interpersonal:** Students may work in pairs or groups of three.
 * Musical:** Music can be played at home during project or in last few minutes of class.

Students who are absent for this assignment will be given a choice of either writing a short essay on a short story of their choice, describing the significance of at least three key occurrences, or doing a presentation in class in which they assume the role of a professional alias they would create outside of class. Each choice will be in the form of a packet with detailed instructions for both procedures.
 * Modifications/Accommodations**

Students wishing to go further with this assignment may develop their "master thesis" and "publish" a two-page essay on the story based on this thesis.
 * Extensions**

__**Materials, Resources and Technology**__
Students must have their Laptops. //Young Goodman Brown// text//.// [|Create a chatroom] printout and hand to groups.

__Source for Lesson Plan and Research__
[| Create a chatroom]

__**Maine Standards for Initial Teacher Certification and Rationale**__
Rationale:** Beachball: There are a number of ways in which to make your character, and open mindedness and flexibility are encouraged when coming up with a background for them. Microscope: The text will have to be paid great attention to in order to come up with discussion topics that can last for 20 minutes. Clipboard: The methods for creating the character, the username and entering the discussion are very cut-and dry and easy to understand for students who need direction in their learning. Puppy: The atmosphere of the chatrooms will be very welcoming and it is a requirement of the discussion that all ideas be listened to and either agreed with or disputed with respect and decency.
 * //Standard 3 - Demonstrates a knowledge of the diverse ways in which students learn and develop by providing learning opportunities that support their intellectual, physical, emotional, social, and cultural development.//

Rationale:** The lesson takes something that students use on a daily basis and lets them practice its usefulness for having discussions about academics with peers. The students must use their new vocabulary and skills of interpretation in order to come up with a rich discussion.
 * //Standard 4 - Plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, curriculum goals, and learning and development theory.//

Rationale:**
 * //Standard 5 - Understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies and appropriate technology to meet students’ needs.//


 * Verbal:** Students get to talk to each other about their Aliases during class.
 * Logical:** Students must come to characteristically logical questions while in character.
 * Kinesthetic:** Students are using a computer keyboard.
 * Visual:** Conversation unfolds online instantly. Makes organization and focusing easy
 * Naturalist**: Assignment can be taken outside of the classroom.
 * Intrapersonal**: Student may work on the alias that they have chosen by themselves
 * Interpersonal:** Students may work in pairs or groups of three.
 * Musical:** Music can be played at home during project or in last few minutes of class.

Rationale:**
 * //Standard 8 - Understands and uses a variety of formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and support the development of the learner.//

The students will be creating an imaginary character, listing the character's traits on a graphic organizer. Along with their made-up credentials, each student must create a "Master Thesis" that their character came up with. The thesis must be based on the reading that was done for homework and it must reflect the student's actual thoughts on the story.
 * Formative (Assessment for Learning)**

The AIM chat sessions must be printed off by each student and brought to class. Each student will be graded based on their contributions to the discussions, not necessarily on how well they stayed in character. The graphic organizers will be handed in in-class, then examined and graded for effort and comprehensiveness. The Master Thesis statements will be collected the day after the assignment and graded for effort, grammar, syntax and professionalism.
 * Summative (Assessment of Learning)**

__Teaching and Learning Sequence__
Students have read Young Goodman Brown for homework. Students enter classroom. Desks are facing each other. Discussion about Young Goodman Brown. Questions? Clarification. (10 minutes) Hook: You are now a Dr. of English Literature, specializing in Hawthorne Studies. What's your history? Students spend 5 minutes coming up with alias's background. Students work together with a partner to discuss what the particulars of their alias's education will be. What area of Hawthorne do they specialize in? What is their favorite Hawthorne short story? Students record these details on their graphic organizer. (10 minutes) Finally and most importantly, what is their master thesis? Discuss with partner, each student must come up with two possibile theses. (10 minutes) Create AIM accounts using the graphic organizer's info. (10 minutes) One of the partners must create a chatroom and send a link to the chatroom to the other student via email. This is the chatroom that they will use for their assignment. (5 minutes) Students work on their master theses for the remainder of class.


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