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Reflexive Writing And Literature [7th Grade], Kara Dougherty
Reflexive Writing And Literature [7th Grade], Kara Dougherty
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The goal of this unit is for students to write their own reflexive piece of writing--a memoir. While students have had previous exposure to this in the past, their focus should be more on narrowing down their topic to the important facts and use vivid descriptions and sensory details to create imagery in their writing. We will read published examples of reflexive writing from both essay collections and the literature book, Elements of Literature: First Course published by Holt in order to analyse and understand how other writers make their literature interesting to the reader. We will also explore strategies …
Think Inside The Box: Using Tables To Understand Number Patterns [4th Grade], Kristen Lesher, Carrie Susong
Think Inside The Box: Using Tables To Understand Number Patterns [4th Grade], Kristen Lesher, Carrie Susong
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This two-week unit introduces students to more sophisticated number patterns and teaches students how to describe the relationship between two sets of data in a table. In the unit, students will identify patterns in everyday situations, record those patterns in the form of a table, and begin to use arithmetic expressions as well as other strategies to describe relationships between sets of data in a table. The performance task will ask students to create tables comparing age relationships. Students will describe the relationship between sets of data in each table using both written and verbal communication.
Writing Free Verse Poetry [3rd Grade], Annie Houston Winter
Writing Free Verse Poetry [3rd Grade], Annie Houston Winter
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This 3 week unit is designed to help students discover that poetry is meaningful and relevant to their lives. This unit will focus on using good word choice to create powerful images in their writing. Students will also gain the understanding that poetry is meant to be read aloud as they prepare for a class performance. Students will discover that they are poets as they write in their poetry notebooks and prepare a piece of poetry for publication in a class anthology.
Rational Numbers [7th Grade], Courtney Spickelmier
Rational Numbers [7th Grade], Courtney Spickelmier
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This 6-7 week unit is designed to provide students with a deep understanding of rational numbers and what they represent: a part of a whole. The unit encompasses many aspects of working with rational numbers including converting between different forms of rational numbers, comparing and ordering rational numbers, understanding the relationship between improper and mixed number fractions, performing operations with rational numbers, finding percentages, and applying such skills to real world situations. Throughout this unit, students are given the opportunity to discover relationships between numbers, make connections to the real world and other mathematical topics, and reinforce skills through large …
Breaking Bread: Finding Peace In The Middle East [9th Grade], Jessica Waltman
Breaking Bread: Finding Peace In The Middle East [9th Grade], Jessica Waltman
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The goal of this unit is to introduce students to the Middle East region of the world. Through the themes of the resources of oil and water students will gain a deeper understanding of the conflicts that have plagued this region of the world. Students will focus on the essential questions "What creates allies and enemies?", "Why is there conflict?", and "Are humans the heroes or villains of the earth?" in order to better understand the perspectives towards and of this part of the world. The activities and daily lessons of this unit are built to aid students in their …
Personal And Group Identity [9th Grade], Alice Rasmussen
Personal And Group Identity [9th Grade], Alice Rasmussen
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This unit is designed to purposefully set the tone of the classroom at the beginning of the year. As the year begins, I often get sidetracked with the business of starting a school year and the important process of orienting with the classroom, the teacher, and each other gets pushed aside. This unit is designed with the flexibility needed to allow for the business and logistics of the beginning of the year. It is also designed to allow for schedule changes. A student who enters the classroom after the first day will not be lost or behind. The unit is …
Supply And Demand [12th Grade], Matthew Shane Fitts
Supply And Demand [12th Grade], Matthew Shane Fitts
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Interaction of Supply and Demand--in a free-market economy, price is a function of supply and demand. In most cases, competitive markets send resources to the uses in which they have the highest value. Elasticity is the measure of the responsiveness to changes in prices.
Seedfolks: Individual And Community [7th Grade], Vanessa Sanchez
Seedfolks: Individual And Community [7th Grade], Vanessa Sanchez
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Students will focus on the impact an individual can have on a community. The unit will then move on to a study of individuals who have affected their communities and the affect a community has on the behavior and understanding of an individual. Students will also read and discuss the novel Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman as a connection to the focus of the unit. Students will use their knowledge of community and individual influence to make a difference within their own community and reflect on the experience.
Media Forms In Use [7th Grade], Salena Gonzales
Media Forms In Use [7th Grade], Salena Gonzales
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Advanced Contemporary Literacy is a new course at NEISD where each grade level's curriculum is designed around a different focus for the year to meet the needs of students who require or desire a challenge and change of pace from the traditional reading class. In seventh grade, the focus is Media Literacy, the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms-from print to video to the Internet. Media Literacy is essential to today's adolescents because, according the the Center for Media Literacy, it "builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well …
Bits And Pieces -- Working With Fractions [6th-8th Grade], Kathleen Kilday
Bits And Pieces -- Working With Fractions [6th-8th Grade], Kathleen Kilday
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In this unit, students will be introduced to fractions. Students will have practice identifying commonly used fractions using physical models, pictures, numbers, and word problems. Using these skills, students will recognize equivalent fractions and be able to sort fractions from largest to smallest and vice versa. Students will also be introduced to adding and subtracting these commonly used fractions. To demonstrate their knowledge of fractions, students will be asked to complete a performance assessment. The students will be given a recipe and 2 situations. The students will use the given information to amend the recipe for the appropriate number of …
Exploring Media [6th Grade], Kathleen Fenske
Exploring Media [6th Grade], Kathleen Fenske
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In this unit, students will explore media and will focus on how media has different forms based on its purposes, how it can persuade viewers or readers using a variety of elements and tools, and how it reflects a society's values. Students will begin the unit by delving into it with the following questions: What is media? Why do we use different forms of media? Newspapers? Magazine? Internet? Television? Radio? How do effective advertisements hook the consumers? How do we "read" media? Should we believe everything we see and hear? Does media reflect a society or does it shape how …
If You Aren't Part Of The Solution, You're Part Of The Precipitate! [10th-12th Grade], Dustin Demoin
If You Aren't Part Of The Solution, You're Part Of The Precipitate! [10th-12th Grade], Dustin Demoin
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This unit attempts to provide students with a deeper understanding of the properties of solutions, the process of dissolving, and the role of solvent. Students will explore both the concepts and the applications of basic solution theory. Students will investigate the role of a solvent, including its properties necessary to dissolve the solute. They will also see the effects of changing the colligative properties and how the concentration of a solution changes those properties in different ways.
What's The Matter...Do Things Keep Changing? [10th-12th Grade], Dustin Demoin
What's The Matter...Do Things Keep Changing? [10th-12th Grade], Dustin Demoin
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This unit attempts to provide students with a deeper understanding of the properties of matter and physical and chemical properties/changes. This unit could be used at the middle school or IPC level with the omission of the discussion of the kinetic molecular theory. You will also need access to a CRC manual for the project. You could just work with photocopies of the book for the triple points and critical points.
Gases, Liquids, And Solids [9th-12th Grade], Dustin Demoin
Gases, Liquids, And Solids [9th-12th Grade], Dustin Demoin
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The kinetic energy (energy of motion) of the particles that make up a substance determines the state of the material. During phase changes, energy increases, but the temperature does not increase, until all of the material has changed phase. Energy and stresses cause changes in physical properties of all materials--solids, liquids, and gases.
A Lesson Before Dying [12th Grade], Devon Erlich
A Lesson Before Dying [12th Grade], Devon Erlich
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Students will focus on the novel A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines which outlines the emotional and intellectual journey of a wrongfully convicted black man and his teacher before the convicted’s execution in a Cajun community in the 1940’s. The themes presented in the book will raise questions for the students such as What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be educated? And Is justice always just? They will explore the idea that many issues surrounding justice, racism, and human responsibility are just as prevalent today as for the characters presented in the …
Simple & Compound Machines [7th Grade], Roxanne Hammonds
Simple & Compound Machines [7th Grade], Roxanne Hammonds
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Students will learn about the different types of simple machines including pulleys, levers, wedges, Screws, inclined planes, and wheel & axles. They will be able to classify objects as simple or compound machines. They will describe how humans use machines to make everyday tasks easier. They will illustrate their knowledge of simple machines throughout the unit through various science journals, fold books, and flashcards. As a culminating performance task, the students will use what they have learned to make a Rube Goldberg machine. Students will choose what type of useful work their machine will do. The students will present their …
U.S. Imperialism And Expansion At The Turn Of The 19th Century [11th Grade], Carly Dodd
U.S. Imperialism And Expansion At The Turn Of The 19th Century [11th Grade], Carly Dodd
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This unit outlines U.S. expansion and imperialism at the turn of the 19th century, a policy change from America's traditional stance of isolationism. The content covers newly acquired U.S. territories, the Spanish-American War, changing U.S. foreign policy through Theodore Roosevelt and John Jay, as well as the historical debate of the time period: the growth of anti-imperialists. The unit uses secondary and primary sources, coopertive learning methods, and an emphasis on vocabulary to not only allow students depth in learning, but also a foundation with which to be successful for TAKS. The unit's two essential questions ask students to explore …