This unit includes a combination of fourth grade writing and social studies standards. It focuses on research and public discourse.
Students will learn the components of an informational essay. Through modeling, mini-lessons and multiple opportunities for practice and feedback, students will go through the writing process to produce an informational essay on the topic of their choice.
This unit addresses four 6th grade reading standards taught throughout the course of a trimester. These lessons are designed to be taught one day a week, while the other days in the trimester are focused on writing units. This unit is designed to be co-taught with a general education and special education teacher, but can be easily adapted if only one teacher is present.
In this part of the unit, students are exploring how global temperatures have changed over the past hundred years. Students will examine tables and graphs about global temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, human consumption of food, and human consumption of natural resources. They will find patterns in the graphs. Based on this data, students will construct an argument about how human activities (increase in population and consumption of natural resources) cause global temperatures to increase.
Students will learn the components of a Narrative writing. Through mini-lessons (Ex: dialogue, story elements, figurative language, good introductions,genre study, etc.), daily writing and revising, students will go through the writing process to produce a narrative writing on a topic of their choice.
This 8th grade unit highlights main events of the Civil Rights Movement and navigates to the life of Jackie Robinson and watching the movie 42.
Students will enhance their vocabulary in three ways: spelling, definition, usage
In this learning object, students will learn how to format in-text citations and reference list entries for various multimedia.
In this learning object, students will learn how to format in-text citations and reference list entries for print and online books.
In this learning object, students will learn how to format in-text citations and reference list entries for print and online journals.
In this learning object, students will learn how to format in-text citations and reference list entries for print and online magazines.
In this learning object, students will learn how to format in-text citations and reference list entries for print and online newspapers.
In this learning object, students will learn how to format in-text citations and reference list entries for website content.
In this learning object, students will learn what the abstract and body of an APA-formatted paper are. They will also learn how to format each according to APA style.
In this learning object, students will learn how to format the Reference list page according to APA style, 6th edition.
In this learning object, students will learn what a title page, running head, and page numbers are. They will also learn how to insert a running head and page numbers and how to format them according to APA style. Students will learn how to format the title page, including information placement and understanding what information that goes on the title page.
In this learning object, students will gain a general understanding of APA citation formatting for both in-text and Reference list entries.
In this learning object, students will review the basic formatting of in-text citations following APA style, 6th edition.
In this learning object, students will learn how to format in-text citations and reference list entries for sources without identifiable authors.
In this learning object, students will learn how to format in-text citations and reference list entries for sources without a publication date.