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Story Maps – “In Two Worlds”

Plan Author: David Riddick

Grade Level: 5^th Grade

CA- California K-12 Academic Content Standards

• Subject : English Language Arts

• Grade : Grade Five

• Area : Reading

• Sub-Strand 2.0: Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials)
Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They describe and connect the essential ideas, arguments, and perspectives of the text by using their knowledge of text structure, organization, and purpose. The selections in Recommended Readings in Literature, Kindergarten Through Grade Eight illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. In addition, by grade eight, students read one million words annually on their own, including a good representation of grade-level-appropriate narrative and expository text (e.g., classic and contemporary literature, magazines, newspapers, online information). In grade five, students make progress toward this goal.

• Concept : Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text

Standard 2.4: Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge.

• Area : Writing

• Sub-Strand 2.0: Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students write narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive texts of at least 500 to 700 words in each genre. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0.

· Concept: Using the writing strategies of grade five outlined in Writing Standard 1.0, students:

Standard 2.2: Write responses to literature: a. Demonstrate an understanding of a literary work. a. Support judgments through references to the text and to prior knowledge. c. Develop interpretations that exhibit careful reading and understanding.

Objectives:

· Students will have an appreciation of story maps to explore comparisons of two different characters.

· Students learn how to create a Venn Diagram story map to pre-write an essay comparing the difference between two characters.

· Students will use the Venn Diagram to create a Power Point Slide show as a Pre-Write for an essay describing the difference between two characters.

· After a guided lesson showing students how to use a Venn Diagram, students explore the story "In Two Worlds" to find differences between Mary Ann and Alice Rivers.

· Students will gain experience in the use of technology, i.e. the Internet and Power Point.

· A rubric will be utilized to determine student proficiency by scoring a 3 or 4 on the established criterion chart.

Materials Needed:

1) Pencil & Paper
2) Transparencies
3) Transparency pen
4) Open Court Anthologies

5) Computer with keyboard and mouse (one for each student)

6) MS Power Point

7) Internet access (for images)

8) Reference books, textbooks, library books (for research)

9) LCD Projector and screen (for student lectures)

10) Floppy disks for every student to use, not keep.
11) Comparison of Two Different Characters Rubric
12) Venn Diagram Transparency
13) Student Sample Pre-Write Transparencies
14) Student Sample Essay Transparencies - Comparison of Two Different Characters

Time Durations: 3 days for research and creation of Story Map Slide, 1 day for class presentation.

At the end of this lesson, students will have created a Power Point Slide describing the difference between two Yupik Eskimo's, Mary Ann and Alice Rivers. Students will insert their slide into a “class presentation lecture”, and teach their fellow students by presenting their slide to the class as a whole.

Lesson Outline:

DAY 1

1. SPONGE: Ask students to brainstorm information about what they think life is like as an Eskimo. Write response on whiteboard. (5 mins)

2. LESSON/PROCEDURES:

As a whole group, we will discuss topics to compare the two main characters of "In Two Worlds," Mary Ann and Alice Rivers.

I will show student samples of Venn Diagram pre-writes.

Introduce the idea of the Pre-Write to the class and go over the procedures of how to create one.

² Brief Bio:

Purpose: To help students use writing as a tool for learning, and to be precise and concise in their writing.*

Application: This strategy is used when you want students to engage in research and write thoughtfully, but do not want a large essay. The short statement helps students to learn to write concisely and to learn the material.*

Description: In a pre-write students are trying to concentrate as many facts about a person they are researching as they can in a small space.* (Perfect for a Power Point Slide)

Students must:*

1. Briefly explain how the details of the character represent aspects of their culture.

2. Students must have three main ideas that deal with the main characters heritage. For example, details about the characters home, cooking, school, travel

3. Students will describe how Mary Ann’s lifestyle represents the traditional way of Eskimo life, and Alice Rivers represents the modern lifestyle.

4. Use action words; do not be passive

5. Use concise language and combine your sentences (DO NOT USE MORE THAN FIVE).

Allow students to begin research in class for the rest of the period.

HOMEWORK: To have all the necessary information about Mary Ann and Alice Rivers.

DAY 2: Computer Lab

Today, students will work in the school computer lab and do the following

o Download an image of their person

o Set up their master slide on Power point

1. LESSON/PROCEDURES:

A. Students search the Internet for an appropriate image of their person.

- Go to Google.com

- Right click on Images

- Type in “Yupik Eskimo” in the Google search box

- Right click GOOGLE SEARCH

- Choose appropriate picture of person

- Insert your disk into the A drive

- Left click on the image

- Choose “Save Image As”

- Change the “Save In” box to the “Floppy A:” drive

- Under File Name, type your person’s name

- Right click “Save”

B. Next, students will set up their Slide Master in Power Point

- Close the Internet, by right clicking the X in the up right-hand corner of the window

- Open Power Point by double clicking on its icon on the desktop

- Click on Blank Presentation, then click “OK”

- Choose a template that has the following- Title box, clip art box, and text box

- On the menu bar, go to View, Master, and Slide Master.

- On the Slide Master, choose the style and size of the font for both text boxes

- Also, choose the background of the slide by go to the Format menu, then clicking on Background. You can choose color, gradient, and pattern by clicking on the inverted triangle next to the blank box underneath the “Background Fill”

- When finished with your Slide Master, go to the View menu and click on “Normal” to get to your original slide.

C. Next, students have need to insert the image they downloaded from the Internet

- First, highlight the Image box on your slide by right clicking on it.

- Go to the Insert menu in Power Point, down to Picture, then to “From File”

- On the Insert Picture window, change the “Look In” box to the floppy A drive

- Find the file name of the downloaded image, and then click insert.

- Adjust the size of the image, if necessary.

D. Student will save their Power Point file onto their floppy disk, under their full name.

E. HOMEWORK:

Students are to have a rough copy of their Venn Diagram written out and ready to type it into their slide for tomorrow’s class work.

DAY 3: Computer Lab

Today, students will work in the school computer lab and do the following

a. Type in their research paragraph to their slide and save it to a disk

b. Insert their slide to the “Class Presentation” File

1. LESSON/PROCEDURES:

A. Students open Power Point and their file from their disk.

B. Students right click on the Title Box on their slide and type the person’s name.

C. Next, they click on the text box next to their image and type in the paragraph using their rough draft. They read it and use spell check to make sure they made no mistakes.

D. Students save their slide to the their floppy disk and bring it to the teacher.

E. The teacher inserts the students slide from their floppy disk to the “Class Presentation” File

F. Go to the Insert menu, then to Slides from Files

G. Click Browse next to the File box

H. Change to the Floppy A drive; find the students file, and click open

I. Do this for every student; save the file after insert a student’s file.

DAY 4: Classroom

Today, students will present their information to the class while their slide is shown on the overhead screen by way of LCD projector. The teacher should have already set up the LCD projector and hooked it up to the teacher computer in the classroom.

1. Pass out notepaper to students and tell them they need to take notes on each presentation.

2. Students will have no more than 4 minutes to show their slide and give any information they fill is necessary for the class to know.

Students will be assessed on both their slide and their slide presentation

*It may be necessary to have more than one day for presentations.

Following are the worksheets that are given to the students about this assignment, including a rubric for their slide.

Comparison of Two Different Characters Rubric

	1	2	3	4	Your Score
Power Point Introduction	No introduction	Introduction has no thesis	1) Broad Statement 2) Tie it to the theme 3) Thesis statement = 3 main differences between the characters	Well thought out broad statement that connects to thesis
Power Point Details	Does not state any differences between characters	Has 1 or 2 main differences between the characters	States 3 main differences with details between the main characters	Well thought out and transitions differences
Power Point Conclusion	No conclusion	Conclusion does not include restate, look to the future, or pose a question	1) Restate three main differences 2) Look to the future 3) Poses a question	Use of higher thinking questions and analysis
Power Point Conventions and Sentence Structure	Unclear, incorrect, and/or ineffective sentence structure Does not follow writing conventions.	Simplistic and/or awkward sentence structure Many writing convention errors	Organized and complex sentence structure that has some stylistic variation Few writing convention errors	Sentence structure is varied in composition and length Few if any writing convention errors
PowerPoint Creativity	Power Point is unfinished	Bio is not creative or colorful in design. Was unable to offer further information in the presentation other than what was on the slide.	Bio is creative and colorful in design. Was unable to offer further information in the presentation other than what was on the slide.	Bio is creative and colorful in design. Was able to offer further information in the presentation other than what was on the slide.