Kim+L

Ideas--I love getting to share books with students, so your Book Club appeals to me. You mention showing the principal a project about a favorite book--I'm having great luck with students writing reviews within our Destiny software, but even more fun with Animoto (30 second free video) and Glogster (online posters, basically webpage) projects. This appeals to the students in ever so many ways that the old static hands-on projects don't anymore. Your goals lead the students on a path of gaining a deep-seated emotional reaction, as you discuss mood, imagery, tone, and characterization. I would want the students to focus also on the protagonist's strengths and how those strengths might work in today's environment. While I know, like you, that reading can hit upon any of the 21st Century Skills, I'd probably choose to focus on assessing only 1 or 2 within the project, and choose between, for example, collaboration and self-direction, and then focus on critical thinking in the literary analysis.

**D-Quadrant Backward Planning **

Book Clubs
 * Lesson Title **

__**What is it you Want Students to Know and Be Able to Do? – **Content Standards__ To evaluate how an author uses words to create mental imagery, suggest mood, and set tone.

__**21st Century Skills (ISTE NETS) **What will you assess, specifically?__ Collaboration, self-direction, critical thinking and reasoning, information literacy, and invention.

__**Transfer **: //Students will be able to independently use their knowledge, understandings, and skills acquired to //__//_// Describe and contrast characteristics of specific literary movements and perspectives.

__**Essential Question **//Big, broad open question not subject specific //__ What message was the author trying to portray in the book?

__**Enduring Understanding: **// What do you hope students to remember 10 years from now? //__ We hope they remember the main theme of the book and to even compare their own life to characters in the book.

__**Unit Questions: **//Open questions – subject specific //__ How does the character connect to you, to others you know, or to other characters in the book?

What is the main character's flaw?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Content/Guiding Questions: **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Closed questions – fact finding //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How will you know they know it? **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Formative & Summative Assessment Strategies of content ////and skills//

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Formative Assessments: Student summarizes information, research journals, think-pair-share activity, and interview students.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Summative Assessments: A book report summarizing the book, and thoughts on the book, what they liked, what they didn't like, and would they recommend it to others.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Performance Assessment Task – G.R.A.S.P.S. __**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Read a book that fits into their everyday lives, a book they can relate to. Top-selling books.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Goal: **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The “hook” //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">– //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Your task is… ////<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">an engaging ////<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> introduction that kids can connect with – the “real world” situation //

The students.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Role **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Who does this kind of work or problem solving in the “real world?”

Other students who do not participate in book club.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Audience – **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Who will you present your product to (other than the teacher)?

Get more kids interested in participating in book club, to learn how to discuss real life themes, to learn how to figure out a theme of a book, and to just read in general.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Situation – **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">More details on the goal

A list of members and a list of book we have read in the school year. A project by the students on their favorite book that we read.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The product **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> – <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What would you turn in to your boss?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We expect the students to show up to every book club unless of an emergency, to correlate the major themes of the book with real world topics, and to come up with discussion questions that we can have a discussion over.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Standards & Criteria for Success – **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rubric criteria – what is expected? Should align with learning goals