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Develop an age-appropriate thematic unit for use in your classroom.
Determine the instructional focus:
1. Subject (social studies or science)
2. Topic
3. Literacy standards (your state): i) Reading; ii) Writing
4. Content-area standards (social studies or science)
5. Time-frame
Plan instructional activities:
1. Develop a planning map (or outline if you prefer) with possible activities (see the end of chapter 12 in the textbook).
2. Include literature experiences for each of the five reading stages.
3. Include writing activities in each of the five writing stages.
4. Demonstrate learning with a multigenre project.
5. Decide on a common thread or unifying feature.
6. Identify available resources.
7. Select at least three genres from the “Multigenre Projects” in chapter 12 in the textbook.
8. Combine content-area study with writing in significant and meaningful ways,” according to the textbook (p. 408).
9. Incorporate student choice.
10. Decide how students will keep track of their new knowledge.
11. Decide how students will demonstrate their learning at the end of the project.
12. Decide how the projects will be shared and with what audience.
13. Decide how you will assess student learning.
You may format your Thematic Unit Plan in one of three ways: a paper, a planning cluster, or an outline. (The cluster could be scanned and attached.)
Cite sources. Include a cover page, abstract, and a reference page.
Prepare the paper (if selected as the format) according to the APA. If an outline or cluster is chosen as the format, APA format is not required but strong academic writing is expected
No lesson plans are required. They would follow the unit cluster plan
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Week 7 Clarifications
Please look over the assignment, carefully focusing on each requirement. Lesson plans are not required. Rather, write a Unit Cluster Plan or outline as seen on pp. 422-427.
The Thematic Unit Plan may be prepared in either a cluster plan, outline, or a paper.
The five stages of reading are found on p. 40 and the writing stages on p. 48 (Tompkins, 2014).
When writing your Thematic Unit (an e-portfolio assignment), GCU suggests that you include the rationale for TaskStream in your paper. Perhaps you could place it immediately after the abstract. Just as you centered the title of the Abstract, you could drop down a few lines and center the title: Rationale. The rationale explains how the content of the assignment connects with the standards you indicate within TaskStream. You may also add other standards from your state or Common Core if you wish. Please see attachment below Week 7 Clarifications Post for information about the Rationale.
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Remember, you have 3 options. You could do the picture cluster, a paper, or an outline.
You do not need lesson plans. You are organizing and giving an overview of a 2-3 week science or social studies unit.
Wrap reading and writing strategies into a social studies or science unit.
Include your state standards for reading, writing, and content area..
Include your state standards for the social studies or science strand/topic you have chosen. Summarize the state standards to keep Turnitin score down.
Outline or give an overview of how you would tie all of these things together:
literature experiences–5 reading stages p. 40
writing activities–5 writing stages p. 48
show learning through a multigenre project (a project that includes 3 ways to show knowledge p. 408)
What is the common thread or unifying feature for the unit?
This unit helps students combine content area with reading and writing strategies.
Give students choices.
Show how they will keep track of their new learning.
Tell how students will share with an audience at the end.
Describe how you will assess student learning.
Again, you could write this up as a cluster, a paper, or an outline. See examples on pp. 422-427 for information to include even if you don’t do a cluster.
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Lesson plans are not a part of the assignment. I will be looking for the major categories listed in the syllabus:
Literature activities
Writing activities
Multigenre project
Common thread between literacy and content area
Student choice
Keeping track of knowledge
How knowledge will be shared at the end
Text sets
Assessment
Grade level
Time Frame
Rationale (for TaskStream)
Thesis/abstract
Abbreviated standards
This could be in outline, essay, or cluster as the page shows.
Please let me know if you have further questions.
I am from Florida so please include standards from Florida and include the rationale. Please read all the information. If you need to add more pages let me know and I will pay for them.
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