Interdisciplinary Writing Unit Civil Rights Movement: Brown v Board of Education Najakka Hargrove

1. Interdisciplinary Writing UnitCivil Rights Movement: Brown v Board of EducationNajakka Hargrove • Grade: 5th • Genre: Narrative • Form: Response to Literature/Simulated Journal • Content Area: Social Studies • Topic: Brown v Board of Education Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

2. Georgia Writing AssessmentGrade:5 • Evaluation of students’ response to narrative, persuasive, or informational writing • Taken in the month of March by all 5th graders • Need to be familiar with the writing process • Need to be familiar with genres and forms of writing • Cover Georgia Performance Standards for content purposes Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

3. Scoring Analytic More than one feature or domain is evaluate Holistic Each domain is evaluated holistically (making overall judgment) Domains Content - 40% Organization - 20% Style - 20% Convention - 20% Raters 2 raters Trained for standardized scoring system 4yr college degree No knowledge of the author Georgia Writing Assessment Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

4. Writing Prompts • The teacher will have students to write on familiar topics to see what students are capable of writing. • Student will be give 40 minutes to complete writing. • Students will select a topic from the following: • Think of a day in your life when everything seemed to be going wrong. Tell about it. • Tell about a time when you felt proud. • What is one of the funniest things that have ever happened to you? Retell the event as completely as you can. • When you get to school, there’s a sign on the door stating, "School’s Closed." What do you do? Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

5. Writing Process Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

6. Prewriting • Whole Group (modeling) • same content and instructions • cover more information in the time allotted • Identify who does and doesn’t understand • opportunity to ask questions and answer questions • let students know their expectations Instructional Grouping Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

7. Prewriting Instructional Grouping • Small Group ( practice activity) • share ideas • make corrections to graphic organizers • Interact with peers • Individual (assessment) • evaluate graphic organizer • individual expectations Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

8. Prewriting Student Grouping • Development • high to medium writers, medium to medium writers, medium to low writers • Linguistic • sit next to a student who speaks English proficiently and Spanish • Culturally • sit with students with the same interest according to student inventory Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

9. Narrative Instructional Procedures Beginning: introduce character(s), describes setting, presents problem or conflict Middle: adds to events presented in the beginning, conflict heightens, character face roadblocks End: reconciles all that has happened, reveals outcome of problem or solution Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

10. Narrative Instructional Procedures Choose narrative elements: • character(s): people or personified animals • Setting: place, time, weather, season, time period • problem/conflict: tension or opposition between forces in the plot • Plot: sequence of events involving characters in conflict situations Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

11. Prewriting Instructional Procedures • ●70% of your write will take place • ● choose a topic, title, purpose, audience, and form • ● Think and organize thoughts and ideas • - graphic organizers* • - free- writing • - brainstorming Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

12. Graphic Organizer Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

13. Scoring Guide Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

14. Accommodations/ Modifications • Developmental • look at pictures to generate ideas • given questions to plan their writing • Use kidspiration to create graphic organizer • Cultural • role play correct behaviors • use visual prompts to redirect inappropriate behavior • Linguistic • paired with a student who speaks English proficiently and speaks Spanish • use tape recorder for notetaking Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

15. Drafting Instructional Procedures ●Use story map ● Give character, setting, and plot at the beginning ● Write what you think and know about topic ● Connect main ideas and supporting details ● Explain and Support ideas ● Put ideas into sentences and paragraphs ● Each event is a paragraph ● Errors not important ● Content is important ● Remember audience Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

16. Scoring Guide Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

17. Revising Instructional Procedures ●Give yourself time before revising ● Reread rough draft ● Make improvements ● Add, subtract, delete, and rearrange material ● Organize writing effectively ● Use powerful introduction and conclusion ● Receive feedback from peers and teacher Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

18. Scoring Guide Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

19. Editing Instructional Procedures ●Give yourself time before editing ● check grammar, mechanics, punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, spelling, and documentation style. ● Read paper slowly aloud ● Make complete sentences ● Use multiple paragraphs ● Make sure sentence began with a capital letter and end with correct punctuation ● Check handwriting Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

20. Scoring Guide Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

21. Practice Activity • Teacher will introduce editing marks and model how they are used using sample writing. • Teacher will pass out copies of writing and index cards. • Students will read story silently. • Teacher will have the students to turn over index cards with an editing mark on them. • Teacher will read the story. When the students’ editing mark needs to be inserted, the student will stand up. • Students will write correct editing marks on their writing. • Student will trade cards with peers until everyone have used all of the editing marks. Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

22. Publishing Instructional Procedures ●Time to celebrate ● Final copy w/ illustrations if appropriate ● Let others read (share) ● Use software for interactive version w/pictures, graphics, and recordings ● Present to class Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA

23. Scoring Guide Najakka Hargrove Read 7140 OWA