Pre-teen+Angels

__**Team Members:**__

Sofie Licastro Theresa Darroch Jessica Upper

//**Lesson Objective**:// Sort and classify ideas into a Smart Ideas organizer: - identify the main idea, - organize the supporting details, - determine whether the information is relevant and adequate for the purpose. //**Curriculum Focus**:// Writing: Developing Ideas Classifying Ideas 1.4 sort and classify ideas and information for their writing in a variety of ways. Organizing Ideas 1.5 identify and order main ideas and supporting details and group them into units that could be used to develop a summary, using a variety of graphic organizers. Review 1.6 determine whether the ideas and information they have gathered are relevant and adequate for the purpose, and do more research if necessary. //**Pre Assessment**//**-** Monday November 17th Point of View: McDonald’s is Bad Students sort and select ideas that support the main idea, based on whether they are relevant and adequate for the purpose. Task 1 (Shared): Using the Smart Board students will sort the list of ideas into a Smart ideas Organizer, selecting the main idea (point of view), organizing supporting details and discard ideas that do not support the main idea (point of view). Students work in small groups and decide how to organize the information, and record ideas on newsprint. As a whole class students share ideas and come to a consensus on identifying the main idea (point of view) and the relevant supporting details. Class consensus is recorded on the Smart Board. //Guiding Questions:// - Why is Smart Ideas a good way of organizing information into a main idea and supporting details? - How did you choose the main idea (point of view)? - How did you decide if an idea was relevant? Task 2 (Independent): Students work in the computer lab and are provided with a list of ideas related to Smoking in the car. Students identify the point of view and provide relevant supporting details, using Smart Ideas to organize the information. Once the web has been created, students add in any of their own supporting details that also support the point of view. Students then print the ‘outline’ of the document (to be used in a future lesson). //**Post Assessment:**// ‘McDonald’s is Bad’ Students retry the McDonald’s point of view organizer and have an opportunity to make any changes to their original work.
 * __Lesson Study (November):__**
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__**Lesson Study Reflection (December):**__

-helps to re-focus your expectations as a classroom teacher -allows time to reflect on positive and negative and next steps -see someone else’s classroom set-up for Smartboard -have opportunity to collaborate with colleagues you wouldn’t normally get to work with
 * Lesson Study**

-engages students, especially boys and kinesthetic learners -great for modeled and shared lessons
 * Technology**

-Smartboard and Smart Ideas provide different evidence/artifacts of learning -can be difficult for parents–need for them to be educated about the use of this technology in the classroom and how it benefits student learning
 * Student Learning**

-interesting to meet with other junior teachers to discuss curriculum -gives opportunity to see how other schools may be developing their language programs
 * Collaboration**

-teachers encouraged to learn other features of the Smartboard which might not be used day-to-day
 * Unexpected Learning**