Grade5Unit+4

=Fifth Grade Unit 4: Focus Standards and Online Penpals= //What relevant goals (e.g. content standards, course or program objectives, learning outcomes) will this design address?// //Students will understand that. . .// //• What are the big ideas?// - Communicating with other students //• What specific understandings about them are desired?// - How to appropriately engage in online conversations with others • //What misunderstandings are predictable?// - Inappropriate communication, miscommunication, hurt feelings. || ===Essential Questions:=== //**•** What provocative questions will foster inquiry, understanding, and transfer of learning?// - What are you learning? How are these classes different? How are they the same? || //• What background knowledge and skills will students need to have or be brought up to speed on and how will this be done?// - How blog commenting works || • What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? • What should they eventually be able to so as a result of such knowledge and skills? || ====//Students will work on the following standards. . .//==== • Comments on other blogs and reflections on our blog • How to asses? Rubric? || ===Evidence for Focus Standards Work:=== • Work on ILS to remediate on these standards. || What learning experiences and instruction will enable students to achiever the desired results? How will the design
 * ==Stage 1 - Desired Results== ||
 * ===Establish Goals:===
 * 1) Developing commenting and blogging with other classes
 * 2) Working on focus standards in preparation for state testing ||
 * ===Understandings:===
 * ^  || ===Essential Background:===
 * ====//Students will know the following for blogging. . .//====
 * 1) WC1.1 Identify and correctly use prepositional phrases, appositives and independent and dependent clauses; use transitions and conjunction to connect ideas.
 * 2) WS 1.6 Edit and revise manuscripts to improve the meaning and focus to writing by adding, deleting, consolidating, clarifying, and rearranging words and sentences.
 * 3) RC 2.2 Analyze text that is organized in sequential or chronological order ||
 * ==Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence== ||
 * ===Performance Tasks for Online Penpals:===
 * ==Stage 3 - Learning Plan== ||
 * ===Learning Activities:===

**Links:**
||