Unit Plan Template
Teacher Candidate Name: Ye Won Maing
Unit Name: Covid Reading
Subject and Grade Level: English Secondary 2 (Grade 7)
Standard: Reading Standards
Overarching Goals: What would you expect for mastery?
Reading comprehension, book review skills
Objectives: Identify the objectives for the unit and a table that shows 21st Century skills addressed. Use the objectives that you created in Unit 1.
| Objective | 21st Century Skills Addressed |
| To be able to comprehend reading materials with understanding of the conflicts, character development, and other literary features associated with the books | Comprehension/ Creativity |
| To be able to report back to class what they have read, and understood while reading | Communication Skills |
| To be able to listen to book reports of one another and respond with any questions and relevant feedback | Communication Skills |
Prerequisite Skills: What skills do students need to have before beginning this unit?
Students should have some enthusiasm for reading and hence be able to initiate reading on their own, being able to analyze and comprehend some of the important components within the book.
Summative Assessment: What evidence or project will students submit to demonstrate that they have met the standard and objectives? How will you assess these products? How will you differentiate the assessments based on varying reading levels of students?
Students will be presenting book reports on books that they have read for the week and hence the criteria of reading comprehension, level of analysis, organization of ideas, efficacy of presentation will be assessed. The book reports will be based on books that they have chosen (while the reading list with book reviews would be provided to ease their choice of book selection). Yet, since the books will be chosen by the students, they would be assessed on the books that they have chosen, and hence these varying reading levels will be taken into consideration and also their individual reading levels while assessing each criteria.
Formative Assessment: How will you monitor and track student progress?
Lessons:What are the lessons that you will teach for this unit? How will you sequence the lessons that you will teach for this unit? Will your lessons be goal oriented, theme-based, or project-based? What strategies will you use to teach vocabulary to students of varying reading levels? Mention any other literacy skill covered in a lesson. What follows this unit?
- Lesson 1 (Week 1) : For lesson 1 they would be provided with the list of books that they would be encouraged to read on their own. But their own individual book selection would be encouraged.
- Lesson 2 (Week 2) : For second lesson, we will be going through the drama unit, specifically Shakespearean drama including Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello.
- Lesson 3 (Week 3) : For third lesson, we will be continuing with the drama unit, continuing discussion of Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello and writing individual passage analysis or commentary relevant to the individual drama.
- Lesson 4 (Week 4) : For fourth lesson, we will be going through detective stories, where we would be going through detective stories written by Edgar Allan Poe and analyzing literary devices specifically concerning the genre of detective stories..
- Lesson 5 (Week 5) : We would have students present their book reports of the book choices of their own. I would be providing them individual feedback, and students will be providing them with individual feedback as well.
Differentiating Instruction: How will you differentiate the product, content, and/or process for the various needs, preferences and readiness levels of your students? How will you differentiate the lesson for students with varying reading levels, disabilities and English language learners?
For students with varying reading levels, they will be provided again the choice to choose books appropriate to their reading levels concerning the book reports. For more difficult reading that we would be covering like Shakespeare drama in class, relatively easy to understand summaries would be provided to help with their understanding.
Next Steps: What will you do after the unit? Review, re-teach, extend, or move to the next unit?
I will try to review what they have learned by giving short quizzes, or giving written assignments to make sure they have acquired the necessary skills for the given unit. And then I would re-teach any recurring themes or areas that many of the students struggle to understand, extending the unit by relevant time period. And then if I find that the majority of the class have acquired most of the skills necessary for the given unit, I would be moving ahead with the next relevant class material.
References: Add resources you used to create this unit plan (preferably in APA format).
https://educationcontents.school.blog/2020/04/22/edureading-book-summary-annotations-part-3
Refer to two of these blog posts websites for annotations of all reading materials recommended for the book review activity. The individual files can be manually downloaded from the blog.
YouTube video summarizing these review materialshttps://www.youtube.com/embed/oeFgQx3odAs?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparentAdvertisements
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