Assignment+Four+(Unit)

Daily Grammar Skills Review (Pocket Resource Guide)

**Unit Plan **
30- 45 minutes a week  || Campus: Lakewood School || State Standards [] |||| Subject Specific: D 8.1, D 8.2, B 8.3, E 8.1, E 8.2, E 8.5
 * Title of Unit: Pocket Resource Guide (PRG) || Date: 8/01/09 Timeframe of Unit October – May
 * Author(s): Shanna Naleway || School District: Twin Lakes #4
 * Subject Area(s): Language || Grade Level(s)/Course: 7th ||

// Technology Specific: // [] || |||| The students will create an electronic pocket resource guide to act as a grammar reference as well as learn the basics in podcasting. || Each week the students will add the grammar skill we review to their podcast library.
 * Stated Objective(s)
 * Procedures for Unit |||| The unit I have created will replace the pocket resource guides the students currently create in my class.

Day 1 – Students will listen to the podcasts I created with “Grammar Land.” The students will also be exposed to the Audacity software.

Day 2 – Students will have the chance to “play” with audacity and explore the software. The students will break into groups and tryout their creativity. Students will also be given Ipods (if they don’t have them already) to play podcasts on.

Day 3 – Students will decide on the theme of their pocket resource guide and how information will be presented. Roles of group members will be decided.

Day 4 – Students will script out the skills we have learned about as a class. Skills beginning with nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Students can start recording their podcasts with their group mates when scripts have been approved.

Days 5-20 – Students will continue weekly to create and record podcasts of grammar skills learned in class. Roles of group members will change weekly so that everyone has a chance to write, record, find sound effects and edit. Grammar skills covered in podcasts will be nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrases, clauses, conjunctions, interjections, adverbs, pronouns, modifiers, punctuation and capitalization.

Days 21 & 22 – Students will gather all of their podcasts into a collection. They will create a PowerPoint presentation with their theme and ideas for their PRG. In the presentation they will explain what their roles in the process were and what they learned. The students will play portions of their podcasts and make them available for classmates to use and explore.

Days 23-25 – Students will present their PRGs to the class and what they had discovered. They will also submit their PRGs to me for evaluation.

Day 26 – Students will evaluate themselves on the skills they learned as well as the content presented. They will use a rubric and self-assessment survey to explain their newfound knowledge. || |||| // Rubric – 15-20 Podcasts created by students including group projects. Understanding of Audacity will be shown through published podcasts. Students will also create a power point explaining the theme of their pocket resource guide and share examples with the class. // // Students will also do a self-evaluation rubric/survey on the skills and content they learned. // || || // Audacity Software // // Computer lab // // Ipods for class //
 * Assessment or Evaluation
 * Enrichment |||| Students will be able to explore additional podcasts that pertain to their PRG. They will be able to include them in their presentation. They will also have the option of creating podcasts for reports in other classes. ||
 * Materials |||| Ipods, Audacity software, Computers, Microphones, Paper, Pen/Pencils, Blank CDs
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 * __ Other Resources __**** : **// Book Titles, Art Supplies, Manipulatives, etc…. //