By Lauren hill kathleen omalley and Joseph Scopelliti Final Project 360 Literacy for All Unit Theme My Big Fat Greek Unit Plan ELA Greek Mythology Mathematics Pythagorean Theorem PE Olympics ID: 188255
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My Big, fat, Greek unit plan!By: Lauren hill, kathleen o’malley and Joseph Scopelliti
Final Project: 360Slide2
Literacy for All!Unit Theme: My Big, Fat, Greek Unit PlanELA: Greek MythologyMathematics: Pythagorean Theorem PE: Olympics!
Literacy should be a main component of ALL content area’s lesson plans. This is a critical part of life and our students need these skills.Slide3
21st Century Literacy SkillsThese are ten skills that are crucial for all students and are incorporated into all 3 content area lesson plans.
Read
Navigate a computer
Write coherently
Express their ideas
Problem solve
Work together
Develop listening skills
Develop leadership skills
Be creative
Adapt to their surroundingSlide4
ELA Literacy & LessonsSummarizing & Note Taking: Narrative frame to summarize Hercules’ 12 laborsLiteracy Skills: Read, work together, write coherently, listening skills.
Similarities/Differences: Comparison matrix with different Greek gods
Literacy Skills: Read, navigate a computer, work together, express their ideas, listening skills.
Nonlinguistic Representations
: Role playing books 9 and 11 of
The Odyssey
Literacy Skills: Express their ideas, leadership skills, listening skills, work together, adapt to surrounding, be creative.Slide5
ELA Literacy & Lessons ContinuedQuestions/Cues: Question game on the story of Medusa after reading an article and watching a clip.Literacy Skills: Read, listening skills, express their ideas, work together, leadership skills, problem solve.
Cooperative Learning & Technology: WebQuest http://www.dedham.k12.ma.us/webquest/fall2000/cm/WantedGreekGods.html#CREDITS
Literacy Skills: Read, work together, navigate a computer, be creative, listening skills, leadership skills, problem solve, write coherently, express their ideasSlide6
Students will come together in the entire eighth grade and complete their final project. We will be incorporating Physical Education, Math and English. This will be an all day event.There will be an Olympics event in which the students will participate in all of the games they have learned in the unit.For math, students will be split into teams and compete to see who can complete the given Pythagorean theorem word problem the quickest. Teams will be knocked out until there is only one winner left.
Finally, for English, students will have created their own Greek god or goddess and dress up that day as they believe this god would have.
Final Project for the StudentsSlide7
Physical Education Literacy & LessonsSimilarities/Differences: Group Venn Diagrams comparing and contrasting the shot put from the overhand throw.Literacy Skills: Writing coherently, expressing ideas, working together, developing listening skills, and leadership skills.
Nonlinguistic Representation
: Creating graphic organizers to help understand the information learned in the lesson (triple jump).
Literacy skills: Writing coherently, working together, expressing ideas, develop listening skills. Slide8
Physical Education Literacy and LessonsCooperative Learning & Technology: Soccer WebQuest.http://www.zunal.com/introduction.php?w=
59155Literacy skills: Reading, navigating a computer, write coherently, expressing ideas, problem solve, work together, develop listening skills, leadership skills and be creative.