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Third Grade Blended Learning Outline
Getting Started:
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Poetry Unit Syllabus
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Poetry Standards
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Course Calendar
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Progress Tracker Rubric/Checklist with student goals for the course
Week 1
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Introduce yourself
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Reflection/Journal: What do you know about poetry?
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Review Poetry
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Anchor Chart
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Vocabulary
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Read a poem
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Underline rhyming words, number stanzas, and identify lines in the poem
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Discuss the poem
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Discussion/responses
Week 2
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Read poem
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Imagery Anchor Chart
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Video
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Draw
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Draw what you pictured in your mind when you heard the poem, did the author do a good job at using imagery so you can use your imagination?
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Think-Pair-Share
Week 3
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Read poem
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Theme Anchor Chart
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Video
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Draw/Write
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Students will draw or write the theme of the poem and use text evident to help them support their answer.
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Lead4ward Activity
Week 4
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Read poem
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Figurative Language Anchor Chart
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Video
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Teacher prompt discussion and ask STAAR questions that are open ended
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Anchor Chart with Partner
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Students will identify all the figurative language found in the poem and create an Anchor Chart with a partner with examples from the text they read.
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Exit Ticket/ STAAR questions
Week 5
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Read poem
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Making Connections Anchor Chart/Theme
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Video
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Think-Pair-Share or Lead4ward Activity
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Students will write about a time they learned a lesson and how it connected with the poems’ lesson.
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Self grading rubric with objectives
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Student-teacher conference
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Peer Discussion/ 2 responses
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Course Reflection:
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Create a video on one of the objectives you mastered teaching it to a classmate. Record yourself using seesaw.
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