EDRD619: Disciplinary Literacy

  Making Content Connections                            Your Name: Alicia Leninger Date: 6/22 Lesson Goal: Writing to Learn Content Area: English 12 Specific Topic: Authorial Choice- Short Stories Grade 12 Estimated Time: 10 minutes Strategy   Quick Writes Describe how the strategy is used as a before-during- and/or after-reading activity   (List steps of strategy)   In the previous Module we learned about various strategies to encourage active student engagement with a text.   One of those strategies was having student make an interactive journal where they take notes and add pictures. In my last blog entry, I made an example of it and me...

  Text- Dependent Questions: “ Paris” by Souvankham Thammavongsa  Interactive Notebook-Example Thammavongsa, S. (2020). How to Pronounce Knife . Little, Brown. Text Reference  Question Example  Purpose  Type of Question “ Red worked at the plant like most of the others in town. It was her job to pluck the feathers, make sure the chickens were smooth when they left her. By the time the chickens got to her, they were already dead, their eyes closed tight like they were sleeping” What was the main character Red’s job? Literal Key details: the question serves to make sure the student understands who the main character is and what they do for a living. This sets them up to be able to answer more complex questions about the text. What is the conflict as it is presented here? Literal  Key-details: Again, students need to understand the main conflict in the short story in order to identify themes and make claims/ arguments about the text. How is Red and Nicoles’ so...

 

  Vocabulary Selection and Teaching Plan The text I selected:   3/5ths clause in the United States Constiution https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S2-C3-1/ALDE_00001034/   Instructional goal of a lesson in which I would use this text: The students are using this source( along with other sources) to either defend or argue against the statement that the freed people were really free after the civil war. Word or concept Word Level Purpose/learning task—What, specifically, do I want my students to know about the word/concept? Strategy or approach for teaching the word Before During After Enumeration Level 2 Understand the correlation between the census and political representation. Frayer Model   During           Apportioned Level 3 ...