5th+Grade+Blogging+Language+Arts+(Evan)


 * Part 1: Project Summary **

This lesson details a blogging activity students will experience during the reading of the fifth grade novel "The Watson's Go to Birmingham, 1963". Students will be encouraged to participate in online blogging participation biweekly during the reading of this novel and the unit on the Civil Rights Movement. The blogging will be used to assess students' knowledge of chapter events while utilizing technological resources.

** Content ** This project will encompass Language Arts and Social Social content.

What standards do you need to meet with this project? What will the students need to know/be able to do? her motivations. works, including idioms, similes, hyperboles, metaphors and personification. -By the end of this project, students will be able to read information critically in order to identify: a. The author; b. The author's perspective; c. The purpose. -By the end of this project, students will be able to draw inferences from relevant information. -Students should be able to start computer, log on to kidblog using their usernames and password -Respond using 3 or more complete sentences to two out of three prompts biweekly
 * Language Arts Objectives **
 * - ** By the end of this project, students will be able to explain how a character’s thoughts, words and actions reveal his or
 * - ** By the end of this project, students will be able to identify and explain the use of figurative language in literary
 * Social Studies Objectives **
 * Technology**

** Pedagogy **

What teaching methods and instructional strategies will you use? -During classroom reading time, students will utilize the sketch to stretch strategy. As they read they will stop on designated pages to visualize an illustration on paper in addition to writing a detail sentence corresponding to their illustration. -The sketch to strectch illustrations and caption sentences will be used as a resource while students are blogging -I used bloom's taxonomy as a basis of writing questions to elicit structured responses

** Technology **

What technology will support or enhance student learning? -Students will utilize ** Part 2: Timeline **

Define your project timeline with implementation and next steps. Be ** Part 3: Assessment **

Create a rubric that assesses the lesson.

** Part 4: Student Examples **

Ultimately, we would like to showcase student work on this wiki, however with the last two sessions being both in May, this is unlikely. You are highly encouraged to follow up and include student samples on this wiki.