Lesson+Plan+Ideas+and+Links

=Lesson Plan Ideas and Links=

**Common Craft Assessment **
One of my best lesson plans involved the use of common craft videos. Following the completion of a writing lesson, I had students create their own common craft videos explaining the writing process. It was a huge hit. Through the production of their videos, students solidified their understanding of the writing process. The lesson is more involved than one might initially think. To create good videos students must brainstorm, create a detailed step by step script, make props, practice "stage' directions, and produce their video. We used the library's new I Pods. [] The best ones to teach the process are on YouTube. The video titled "How to Survive A Zombie Attack" always gets their attention. I also show the tutorial video explaining how to produce a common craft video. It is listed on the same YouTube location as the video for zombies.

I will upload our best videos next week for you to see. Allison

I found this wonderful blog about dealing with late work. See if it helps you. []

Just like the fellow Tami references above, Jim Scotese must not sleep either. His website is ripe with great teaching ideas and lessons. If you have never experienced "Illuminated Texts" you must watch "Cat in the Rain." Tami has done something like this with her honors students. Enjoy! []

Here is a link for a guy featured on the evening news. It is a **free tutorial site**. He has material for all grade levels and it is interactive. Bill Gates just funded his nonprofit organization. I plan to share this with my students who struggle with their math classes. []

**Blooms on Steroids**!
This cite is fun if you are looking for creative ways to use Blooms in your lesson planning. []

From Ms. Cain!
http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/106053

The Great Gatsby Facebook Assignment
The students loved this assignment as a review before the final GG test. It gave them a chance to review the main plot of the story and to think a little more deeply about the characters. They either worked alone or in small groups. If you are interested, I also have a self-evaluation rubric. I emailed the following instructions with the students and shared the F. Scott Fitzgerald template in Google Docs. There are 13 quotes below. Create a Facebook news-feed page for F. Scott Fitzgerald that incorporates at least 6 of the following quotes. The page must meet the following criteria: •The news-feed page must outline the plot line of the novel from beginning to end. •The news-feed page must incorporate posts from at least 5 characters. •The news-feed page must creatively portray an in-depth understanding of the novel. •You must add a descriptive and reflective comment from (your own perspective) at the end of the page.

Steps for success: Outline the elements and quotes from the story you would like to post. Create a Google Doc and paste the Facebook template from your email. Add both of your names with comments at the end of the Facebook page. Share the Google Doc with your partner. Complete text before adding images. Be creative.

‘Her voice is full of money.”

“God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!”

“I thought you knew, old sport. I'm not a very good host."

“You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! I'll say it whenever I want to!"

“I hate careless people. That’s why I like you.”

“It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things.”

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. . . After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”

“I did love him once – but I loved you too.”

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one. . .just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had"

a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since seventy-five.”

“one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven."

You can use the provided template or go to one of the following links for a template tool http://www.classtools.net/main_area/fakebook/ http://classtools.net/twister/ -- Mrs. Lenker

Sample pages:

Vocabulary Videos:
These are helpful videos that use clips from popular TV shows to teach vocab-- http://vimeo.com/user3340748/videos

[|http://www.diigo.com] - Diigo sends out daily emails with links to resources and lesson plan ideas once you sign up for an educator account. I have found many useful links by reading these emails.

Poster Website: Ms. Soni shared this great website for making all kinds of media for your class. I was interested in the product that helps you make a movie poster and the one that helps you make a magazine cover. These products would be great covers or artifacts for multi genre writing projects. Here is the link: [|Movie Poster or Magazine Cover Maker]

Open Culture also has some great links to ideas and resources. There daily emails are full o f useful information. Some of the resources offered are protected under copyright law in the United States, but not in other countries. (Some of the available resources may be protected under copyright laws but still available online.) There are links to e-books (The Great Gatsby), videos (BBC's Animated Shakespeare) and short videos like a reading of Langston Hughes' Weary Blues with related blues music and video. See some of the resources posted in Edmodo for more information.