Information Literacy By: April Olorunfemi Title of Unit Medias the Word Grade 7th Grade Language Level

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Stage 1 Identify Desired Results

Students will understand that: o The World Wide Web has expanded the way we access and use information. o Research requires planning in order to find the most relevant information for a research topic. o Using a variety of sources will enhance research for written assignments. o Print reference sources are not obsolete to online and electronic resources when researching for information on a specified topic. o In order for research to prove thorough and balanced, sources must well rounded.

Essential Questions
Overarching Questions: How is research and technology used to support writing? Topical Questions: 1). How are reference sources used in research writing and reporting? 2). How can reference sources be used together in writing? 3). How should writers use a thesaurus to improve their writing? 4). How do printed reference books differ from online/electronic references? 5). Should all information be in electronic form (available online or for download)? Why or Why not?

Stage 2 Evidence Performance Task(s)

Make-A-Vacay- (Understanding Facet (s): Application, Interpretation, Empathy, Perspective) Goal: Your goal is to create a travel brochure Role: You role is that of a professional travel agents Audience: Your clients are a family of 4: 2 adults and 2 children Situation: Students will chose a vacation destination for the fictional family Product Performance and Purpose: You will write an informative paper and create a persuasive brochure that details excursions, transportation, dining and accommodations, photos, and price rates from online sources such as Priceline.com and Hotwire.com in a well planned and organized manner. Your clients should have a 3-day detailed itinerary within their brochure featuring activities relative to all family members Standards and Criteria for Success: Your project will consist of two parts, a research paper and an actual brochure constructed from poster board .The 1 page research paper will be constructed in class through the Writing Process, Prewrite, Compose, Evaluate, Revise, Edit and Publish to be typed. Students will present their assignments to the class. Unit Assessment (Understanding Facet (s): Application, Interpretation, Perspective, Selfknowledge,) Creating A Pop Culture Magazine Goal: Your goal is to create a pop culture magazine Role: Your job is a professional writer/journalist Audience: The target audience are teenage students ages 13-17 Situation: Students will construct feature stories, media reviews, current event, and factual news stories to express grasp of unit skills. Students will also use photos and other relevant print multimedia to visually enhance overall magazine appearance. Product Performance and Purpose: Assignment: In groups of 4, design and create a magazine that offers relevant entertainment, news and facts for your classmates. Students will construct and publish magazines utilizing several online and print sources of information. Standards and Criteria for Success: Your work will be evaluated in the following categories using the attached rubric: Content/Ideas, Organization of Information, Sentences, Print and Internet Research, ELA Conventions.

Performance Task(s) Rubric(s)

Creating A Pop Culture Magazine Rubric
Assignment: In groups of 4, design and create a magazine that offers relevant entertainment, news and facts for your classmates. 4 3 2 1 Category:
Individually create 3 insightful story ideas/news Content/ Ideas articles to contribute to the magazine Magazine pages Magazine pages and layout are and layout are Plan for Organizing thorough with neat and well Information/Layout strong attention to planned. Most detail. All pages pages have have relevant relevant art/graphics to art/graphics to support text support text Writing structure for stories and articles has clarity, rhythm, style and supports the topic Successfully locates relevant and credible print and online sources of information to write story ideas/news articles for the magazine Overall mechanics have no errors and add impact to the overall contents/product Writing structure for stories and articles has rhythm, style and supports the topic Locates relevant online sources of information to write story ideas/news articles for the magazine Individually create 3 unique story ideas/news articles to contribute to the magazine Identify, with teacher help, at least 2 reasonable story ideas/news articles to contribute to the magazine Identify, with teacher help, no more than 2 reasonable story ideas/news articles to contribute to the magazine Magazine pages and Magazine pages layout are organized and layout have with reasonable little effort and effort and detail. detail. No Art/graphics do not art/graphics to compliment text. support text. Over Considerable half of space wasted space on wasted pages Writing structure Writing structure for stories and for stories and articles is choppy articles is unclear, and somewhat awkward and does supports the topic not support the topic Occasionally able to Needs assistance or use suggested supervision to use internet links and suggested internet printed texts to find links to find information to write information to write story ideas/news story ideas/news articles articles

Sentence Fluency

Print and Internet Research

Conventions (Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, Capitalization and format) Total Possible Points

Mechanics have no more than 2 conventional errors in the overall content

Mechanics have many errors that affect the overall contents/product

Mechanics have significant errors that distract from the overall contents/product

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Other Evidence
(e.g. tests, quizzes, work samples, observations)
Differentiated Prompts and Assessments: Skill Check-Choose 3 reference books from the media center and list their characteristics and the information they contain. (Understanding Facet: Explanation) Create a new reference book that will give a new type of information and lists its characteristics. (Understanding Facet: Interpret) Skill Check-Research and list 3 credible online references. (Understanding Facet: Apply) Write a Public Service Announcement on the importance of online safety for young adults. (Understanding Facet: Empathize) In groups of 4, design and create a magazine that offers relevant entertainment, news and facts for your classmates. (Understanding Facet: Perspective) Use a poster board to create an advertisement for your favorite educational website and present it to the class. (Understanding Facet: Self-Knowledge) Write a 5-paragraph essay in response to the following: Are books obsolete? Should all information be in digital form? (Understanding Facet: Interpret) Research and present on a Congressional act or policy that deals with online information, privacy or safety. (Understanding Facet: Perspective) Write a research paper, using the writing process, about a Congressional act or policy that deals with online information, privacy or safety. (Understanding Facet: Explain) Write and perform a script using characters to explain the ways print and online sources are used for research, news and entertainment. (Understanding Facet: Empathize) Quiz- Characteristics of print reference sources

Student Self-Assessment and Reflection

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Self-assess the brochure, Make-A-Vacay. Self-assess the magazine, Pop Culture Magazine. Reflect on the ways you access information. Reflect on the primary and secondary sources you use for information from day to day.

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences

Week 1 Unit Launch: Pretest to determine student skill level and prior knowledge of content. Utilize Podcast for delivery of content instruction/introduction of curriculum goals. 1. Activating Strategies/Models: Students will explore the reference section of the Media Center through group activities. Students will identify the characteristics and usage of a variety of reference books while interacting with group members in a scavenger hunt activity. See Attached Handout

Closure: LESSON: Students will answer the essential question as well as name and describe three types of reference books discussed in the media center activity. 2. Skill Check-Research and list 3 credible online references. (Understanding Facet: Apply) 3. Write a Public Service Announcement on the importance of online safety for young adults. (Understanding Facet: Empathize) Week 2 Type week 2 activities here (use page 26 of the UbD text as an example) 4.Create a new reference book that will give a new type of information and lists its characteristics. (Understanding Facet: Interpret) 5. Use a poster board to create an advertisement for your favorite educational website and present it to the class. (Understanding Facet: Self-Knowledge 6. Quiz- Characteristics of print reference sources 7. Students will create a travel brochure acting as travel agents for a family of 5. This project will consist of two parts, a research paper and an actual brochure constructed from poster board. Student will chose a vacation destination for the fictional family and write an informative paper and create a persuasive brochure that details excursions, transportation, dining and

accommodations, photos, and price rates from online sources such as Priceline.com and Hotwire.com. The 1 page research paper will be constructed in class through the Writing Process, Prewrite, Compose, Evaluate, Revise, Edit and Publish to be typed. Students will present their assignments to the class. Week 3 Type week 3 activities here (use page 26 of the UbD text as an example) 8.Write a 5-paragraph essay in response to the following: Are books obsolete? Should all information be in digital form? (Understanding Facet: Interpret) 9. Research and present on a Congressional act or policy that deals with online information, privacy or safety. (Understanding Facet: Perspective) 10. Write a research paper, using the writing process, about a Congressional act or policy that deals with online information, privacy or safety. (Understanding Facet: Explain) 11. Write and perform a script using characters to explain the ways print and online sources are used for research, news and entertainment. (Understanding Facet: Empathize) Lesson Closing: 12. In groups of 4, design and create a magazine that offers relevant entertainment, news and facts for your classmates. (Understanding Facet: Perspective) Notes to the Instructor Use this area, if needed, to explain to the instructor how your planned activities above satisfy specific elements of the scoring rubric. All of these efforts seek to expand and capture all student interest while allowing students with exceptional needs to grasp the material in a stimulating, safe, supportive, environment. Please see second attachments for graphic organizers that allow students to process the lesson of research and references. Differentiation: 1. Content (Readiness, Interest, or Learning Profile): Differentiation of content will be implemented to improve learning for multiple intelligences, special education, advanced learners and ESL learners in the following ways: *Allow students to use a range of media to understand and become familiar with research information. *Use tiered product assignments.

* Provide visual, auditory, and kinesthetic product and learning options such as teacher lecture, United Streaming video, small group/whole class forums. 2. Process: (Readiness, Interest, or Learning Profile): Differentiation of process will be implemented to improve learning for multiple intelligences, special education, advanced learners and ESL learners in the following ways: *Teaching students how to use a wide range of product formats including print and online/web. *Provide bookmarked Internet sites at different levels of complexity for research sources. *Lead optional, in-class mini-workshops on various facets of product development (e.g., asking good research questions, using the Internet to find information, conducting interviews, proofreading). 3. Product: (Readiness, Interest, or Learning Profile): Differentiation of process will be implemented to improve learning for multiple intelligences, special education, advanced learners and ESL learners in the following ways: * Allow students to use a range of media to express knowledge, understanding, and skill including presentations, research papers, newsletters, etc. * Provide analytic, creative, and practical product options that enhance student research understanding. * Encourage students to work independently or with partner(s) on product development. *Ensure connections between product assignments and a range of student cultures/communities by demonstrating access through multiple sources of information based on student interest.

Appendix of Classroom Instructional Handouts

Reference Materials
The books in the Reference section are the only books in the library that you can not check out. You are encouraged to use these resources all you want in the Media Center. Lets look at each of the major types of reference materials. On each table is a group of reference books. A different type of Reference book is on each table. Your job is to analyze the books to find out what are the major characteristics and uses of that book. AlmanacCharacteristics: I would use it when What other reference tool is it most like and why? AtlasCharacteristicsI would use it when What other reference tool is it most like and why? DictionaryCharacteristicsI would use it when What other reference tool is it most like and why? EncyclopediaCharacteristics I would use it when What other reference tool is it most like any why? IndexCharacteristicsI would use it when What other reference tool is it most like and why? Thesaurus CharacteristicsI would use it when What other reference tool is it most like and why?