Topic:

Heroes and Hope

Teacher/Team:

10 College Prep English

Grade Level:

Tenth Grade

School:

Solon High School

Ohio Graduation Competencies:

Writing

   · Develop a clear, focused main idea or ideas related to the prompt. (1)

·        Include supporting details appropriate to the audience, purpose, and topic. (3)

·        Follow purposeful organization. (4)

·        Make connections among ideas, paragraphs, and sentences. (5)

Reading

·        Utilize multi-step directions to accomplish a task (1)

·       Support an interpretation by locating specific information (4)

·       Draw inferences (7)

·        Locate a stated or implied main idea and differentiate between details that support it and those that do not. (10)

Project/Task:

Students will:

      - write an in-class persuasive

    essay

   - conduct research on a hero

   - create a video-based slide

      show that illustrates

      qualities of that hero

Assessment:

Traditional: written essayevaluated with persuasive rubric

Technology: multimedia rubric

Learning Strategies:

1.    Read Night, and create a common definition of a hero

2.    Select a hero, and prepare a persuasive essay that defends the heroic nature of the person

Develop a video-based slide show that illustrates qualities of the hero

Introduce Unit

Tools:

Computers, digital software, internet, scanner, microphone

Teacher/Team:	10 College Prep English
Grade Level:	Tenth Grade
School:	Solon High School
Ohio Graduation Competencies:	Writing · Develop a clear, focused main idea or ideas related to the prompt. (1) · Include supporting details appropriate to the audience, purpose, and topic. (3) · Follow purposeful organization. (4) · Make connections among ideas, paragraphs, and sentences. (5) Reading · Utilize multi-step directions to accomplish a task (1) · Support an interpretation by locating specific information (4) · Draw inferences (7) · Locate a stated or implied main idea and differentiate between details that support it and those that do not. (10)
Project/Task:	Students will: - write an in-class persuasive essay - conduct research on a hero - create a video-based slide show that illustrates qualities of that hero
Assessment:	Traditional: written essayevaluated with persuasive rubric Technology: multimedia rubric
Learning Strategies:	1. Read Night, and create a common definition of a hero 2. Select a hero, and prepare a persuasive essay that defends the heroic nature of the person Develop a video-based slide show that illustrates qualities of the hero Introduce Unit
Tools:	Computers, digital software, internet, scanner, microphone