In a Daily 5 format, centred around student choice and voice, students will have the opportunity to work with and learn about issues that are important to them!
Our Learning Goals for this Unit
| Reading | • demonstrate understanding of non fiction text and their elements by reading articles and other non fiction texts about social justice issues • communicate comprehension of texts • reading with fluency (guided reading activities) |
| Writing | • use the elements of a persuasive writing • communicate purpose and appropriate audience • grammar work • sentence fluency |
| Communication | • communicate clear, coherent manner when presenting media • reflect on listening and speaking skills |
| Media | • evaluate media • create media |
How?
| Read to Self | • read articles and non fiction texts about social justice issues (Student Monitored) • guided reading groups to discussion issues (Teacher assessed) • complete reading question and answer about one social justice article (self and teacher assessed) |
| Read to Someone | • read article or text (different than Read to Self q&a) about social justice issue (student monitored) • create media (poster, movie, slide show) to raise awareness of issue (self and peer assessed, teacher confirmed) |
| Word Work | • complete worksheet package on writing and grammar concepts (self assessed, teacher confirmed) |
| Work on Writing | • write a letter to an organization or member of government regarding a social justice issue (self assess and teacher confirmed) through the writing process |
Homework
- begin researching and gathering articles and non fiction texts about a Social Justice issue you are interested in learning more about to impact change
- bring a novel, magazine, etc. for free choice reading. Our love of reading is further developed when we can simply read (not always doing reflection work on what we've read)
