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Ideas
**D-Quadrant Backward Planning **


 * Lesson Title What can Biographies teach us? **

__**What is it you Want Students to Know and Be Able to Do? – **//Content Standards //__ Student will be able to:


 * Make connections between themselves and the lives of people in biographies
 * Write a biographical article
 * Revise their own writing for effective language and appropriate details
 * Respond to the writing of their peers with specific comments

Content Area: Reading, Writing and Communicating

 * Students Can:**
 * 1) Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. (CCSS: W.5.3)
 * Create personal and fictional narratives with a strong personal voice
 * Use skills in reading comprehension which transfers to readers' ability to understand and interpret events.

__**21st Century Skills (ISTE NETS) **__ Invention Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes b. create original works as a means of personal expression

//__What will you assess, specifically? __// //Students will create a Photostory biography of themselves showing what difficulties they have overcome and lessons they learned to help them in their lives.//

__**Transfer **: //Students will be able to independently use their knowledge, understandings, and skills acquired to //__//_// create a Photostory of their own experiences

__**Essential Question **//Big, broad open question not subject specific //__ How do people overcome difficulties in their lives?

__**Enduring Understanding: **// What do you hope students to remember 10 years from now? //__ That difficulties can strengthen people and that striving often leads to success.

__**Unit Questions: **//Open questions – subject specific //__

__**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:

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Summative Assessments:


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


 * <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 ////<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">engaging introduction that kids can connect with – the “real world” situation //


 * <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?” //


 * <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)? //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Situation – **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">More details on the goal //


 * <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;">Standards & Criteria for Success – **//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rubric criteria – what is expected? Should align with learning goals //