How do you work with the end in mind?

This week will be about Molly Ringwald... but also about you! It's your turn to plan the module - essential question, standards, skills, activities. How will you learn what you want to learn and show you know it?

Module summary:

• choose...
  • an essential question to investigate
  • standards (C-TACHs) to focus on (in other words, skills to practice)
  • activities to help practice the skills
  • a DOK to demonstrate your newly honed skills
• use...
  • The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and/or Sixteen Candles
  • the C-TACH curriculum map
  • any other resources you would find helpful!

The sections below have been filled in based on what students chose as focus skills (C-TACHs), essential questions, and DOK on Monday.

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essential questions

• How do we relate to Molly Ringwald movies?
• How can we use imagery to write blog posts people want to read?

goals

• Students will understand that Molly Ringwald movies tend to transcend their time period because the characters, events, and themes of the movies are common to teenage life.
• Students will understand that literary devices create visual images that help readers connect to the writing.
• Students will understand that effective blog posts have short, "top-heavy" paragraphs written in conversational (but still polished) tone.

activities

Monday

• Create syllabus
  • Look at English C-TACH (standard) docs to choose three skills to focus on
  • Choose a DOK that will demonstrate the chosen C-TACHs
  • Decide on an essential question or two to direct learning
• Watch The Breakfast Club
  • ​Take notes on at least 4 examples of how you relate to the story (characters, events, themes)

Tuesday 

• Spelling warm-up
• Fill in syllabus based on Monday's decisions
• Watch Pretty in Pink
  • Take notes on three categories: characters, events, and themes
• Write one blog post
  • Publish website
  • Evaluate a classmate's post and leave a comment

Wednesday

• Literary devices warm-up
• Watch Sixteen Candles
  • ​Take notes on three categories: characters, events, and themes
• Revise first blog post as needed based on feedback from classmate and Christine
• Write one blog post
  • Read and respond to a classmate's post
    • Address at least one specific element they wrote about
    • Add your own experience (either building on their point or offering a new perspective)
  • Respond to any posts left on your blog

Thursday

• Write final blog post
• Read and respond to a classmate's post
  • Address at least one specific element they wrote about
  • Add your own experience (either building on their point or offering a new perspective)

Friday

• Finish all posts, wrap up comments
• Get syllabus signed off

c-tachs

Writing

• Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in flexible and dynamic ways (open to feedback, link to other information)
• Spell correctly
  
• Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meaning 
  

documents

Molly Ringwald Module Syllabus
File Size:	37 kb
File Type:	pdf

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C-TACH Curriculum Map
File Size:	150 kb
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Spelling Warm-up
File Size:	411 kb
File Type:	pdf

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Molly Ringwald Module Planner
File Size:	38 kb
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Blog Post Evaluation
File Size:	278 kb
File Type:	pdf

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