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msherry@bloomu.edu Work:(570)389-4975 Cell: (734)255-3241 Office: BCH 106A Office Hours: M,W,F 10-noon Course meets T, Th 2-3:15pm BCH 309 || media type="custom" key="23675978" || =**Meetings and Overview of Due Dates**=
 * [[image:tcss11/wordle1.JPG width="304" height="299"]] || Michael Sherry

UPAGES ||< 09/05 ||< 09/10 ||< 09/12 ||< 09/17 UPLAN1 ||< 09/19 ||< 09/24
 * < 08/27 ||< 08/29 ||< 09/03

CU Lesson1 ||< 09/26 FEJ1 - Student writing ||
 * < 10/01

CU Lesson2 ||< 10/03 SWAP path ||< 10/08 UPLAN2 CU Lesson3 ||< 10/10 FEJ2 ||< 10/15

CU Lesson4 SWAP archive analysis ||< 10/17 ||< 10/22

CU Lesson5 ||< 10/24

UPLAN3 FEJ3 ||< 10/29

CU Lesson6 ||< 10/31 || UPLAN4 CU Lesson7 ||< 11/07 FEJ-Plan ||< 11/12
 * < 11/05

CU Lesson8 ||< 11/14 ||< 11/19

CU Lesson9 ||< 11/21

UPLAN5 SWAP due ||< 11/26 FEJ due CU Lesson10 ||< 11/28 No class ||<  ||<   || Portfolios ||< 12/05 UPLAN-final Portfolios ||< Finals Portfolios ||<  ||<   ||<   ||<   ||<   ||<   ||<   ||
 * < 12/03

The schedule below is subject to change; please be understanding
 Getting to know each other Syllabi Assignments || Reread syllabus, assignments and note questions Meet in MCHS 3234  for course tools practice ||  Course tools wiki how-to
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 * 08/27 || //Introductions/Course overview//
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 08/29 || //Introductions//

Camera How-to

Viddler how-to

Why these matter:

[|NYT - Teacher evaluation via video] [|Education Week - Teachers sharing materials] [|SAS portal resources]

http://www.viddler.com/v/a40dc28e?secret=28903406 || **For 09/03 :**

Finish wiki personal page

Unit plan genre study

Contact field placement mentors to set up weekly visits and plan for teaching a lesson in November || 
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 * 09/03 || //What makes a good unit plan?//

Genre
 * [|Music]
 * Movies: [|1] and [|2]
 * [|Fashion]

[|Virtual Library]

Lesson Plan Genre Study

Groupwork: Unit Plan Genre Study || **For 09/05: **

Teaching English Through Principled Practice (TETPP) Ch. 2, 4-5 Bridging English (BE) Ch. 2

Collaborative Unit Prep: Please read and respond to my post on the [|Collaborative Unit discussion forum] : What Young Adult novel based on a classic should we choose as the focus of our collaborative unit, and why? (for example, Cooper's //King of Shadows// is based on Shakespeare's //A Midsummer Night's Dream//, and makes a great introduction for middle schoolers to the Shakespearean language, the historical context, and the theme in Shakespeare's plays of parent-child relationships). Come prepared to give a "book talk" (see examples below): this is practice for pitching books to your students, colleagues, or administrators. Book Talks [|Example 1] [|Example 2] [|Tips] [|Digital Booktalks] || 
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/05 || Choosing CUPLS text(s) || **For 9/10:**

Collaborative Unit Prep:

Get copies of texts we've chosen. Please post by noon to our [|Collaborative Unit Discussion Forum] your suggestion and explanation for what we want students to learn--a "Big Question" and Unit Goals--that will provide a unifying focus for our unit. In your suggestion, explain how this Big Question is RELEVANT for students and for the discipline of English Language Arts and how it ALIGNS with Standards

Choose the focus of your own UPLAN. On a new page linked to your personal page, brainstorm: Why might this text be worth teaching? What do you want students to get out of it? Consider RELEVANCE for students and for the discipline of English Language Arts.

[|BE 13](note: this is a long reading, but possibly the most important thing you'll read this semester). This will inform our discussion of designing assessments for our Collaborative Unit and your Individual Units. || (Standards) || **For 9/12:**
 * For 9/12:**
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/10 || From text(s) to Rationale and Big Question/Goals

[|BE 13](note: this is a long reading, but possibly the most important thing you'll read this semester). This will inform our discussion of designing assessments for our Collaborative Unit and your Individual Units.

UPLAN Step 1: Rationale and Big Question/Goals/Standards + feedback: To your personal page, please post your Individual Unit Plan Rationale and Big Question; break down that Big Question into manageable, SCAFFOLDING parts that will serve as Goals for the Unit. Explain how this Big Question/Goals ALIGN with Standards. Please respond to the posts of the colleague immediately below your name (and one other of your choice) on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. || Assessment(s)
 * For 9/17:**
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/12 || From Big Question/Goals/Standards to

[|Common Core Example (Standards)] [|login:"sherrymic@gmail"] [|password:"tHQQXNW"]

[|Carnegie Example] [|(Alignment)]

[|Common Core Standards Grade 10] || **For 9/17 :** UPLAN Step 1: Rationale and Big Question/Goals/Standards + feedback: To your personal page, please post your Individual Unit Plan Rationale and Big Question; break down that Big Question into manageable parts that will serve as Goals for the Unit. Please respond to the posts of the colleague immediately below your name (and one other of your choice) on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page.

Collaborative Unit Prep: Please post by noon to our [|Collaborative Unit Discussion Forum] your suggestion and explanation for a summative assessment (final assignment) that will show what students have learned about our goals for the unit. || || No homework! Plan ahead? || Scaffolding lessons so that students can complete the assessment(s) || **For 9/24:** First group prepares plan All but first group respond to plan (model for how to do this? click here; go to plan? click here) ||  Respond to enactment (model for how to do this? click here; go to the Lesson Video? [|click here] )
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/17 || From Assessment to Rubric and Handouts for students
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/19 || Backwards Planning:
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/24 || Collaborative Unit lesson 1 || **For 9/26: **

Field Experience Journal 1 || 
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/26 || http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSLZFdqwh7E

//Mike lesson//: Nominate topics?

Station 1 Articulating Criteria for Summative Assessment

Station 2 Objectives for Remaining Lessons

Station 3 Activity Ideas for Remaining Lessons

Station 4 Reviewing Viddler Comments

Station 5 Connecting to Field Placements || <span class="wiki_link">**For 10/01:** Second group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link_ext">All but second group respond to plan ||  <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Respond to enactment]
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/01 || Collaborative Unit lesson 2 || **For 10/03**:

UPLAN Step 2: Assessment(s) + feedback <span class="wiki_link">Please post your Individual unit plan summative assessment(s) to your personal page <span class="wiki_link">(note: you should design the actual handout(s) you would give to students); Please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision: <span class="wiki_link">Write a paragraph explaining how you did this at the top of your page/document (please note that I won't accept work that hasn't attended to feedback) <span class="wiki_link">Please respond to the posts of the one colleagues immediately below your name (and one other of your choice) on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. || Nominate topics?
 * For 10/08**:
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/03 || //Mike lesson://

UPLAN Game 2 & Vocab Instruction (Vocab/Grammar Resources)

SWAP Feedback Practice 1 || **For 10/08:** Third group prepares plan [|All but third group respond to plan]

Add a Grammar or Vocab resource to our Resources page under the Vocab/Grammar Resources heading.

UPLAN Step 2: Assessment(s) + feedback <span class="wiki_link">Please post your Individual unit plan summative assessment(s) to your personal page <span class="wiki_link">(note: you should design the actual handout(s) you would give to students); Please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision: <span class="wiki_link">Write a paragraph explaining how you did this at the top of your page/document (please note that I won't accept work that hasn't attended to feedback) <span class="wiki_link">Please respond to the posts of the one colleagues immediately below your name (and one other of your choice) on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. || lesson 3 || **For 10/10:** <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Respond to enactment]
 * For 10/08**:
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/08 || Collaborative Unit

Field Experience Journal 2 ||  Nominate topics? || **For 10/15:** Fourth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|All but fourth group respond to plan] ||  <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Respond to enactment]
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/10 || //Mike lesson//:
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/15 || Collaborative Unit lesson 4 || **For 10/17:**

UPLAN Step 3: 5 plans + feedback: <span class="wiki_link">Please post five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; Please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision: <span class="wiki_link">Write a paragraph explaining how you did this at the top of your page/document (please note that I won't accept work that hasn't attended to feedback) <span class="wiki_link">Please respond to the posts of the one colleagues immediately below your name (and one other of your choice) on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. || Nominate topics?
 * For 10/24:**
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/17 || //Mike lesson://

<span class="wiki_link">Fifth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|All but fifth group respond to plan]
 * Discuss nominated topics
 * Visual Rhetoric
 * Student work examples [|1], [|2]
 * [|C.R.A.P. principles]
 * Examples
 * Resume examples
 * Assignment examples || **For 10/22:**

UPLAN Step 3: 5 plans + feedback: <span class="wiki_link">Please post five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; Please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision: <span class="wiki_link">Write a paragraph explaining how you did this at the top of your page/document (please note that I won't accept work that hasn't attended to feedback) <span class="wiki_link">Please respond to the posts of the one colleagues immediately below your name (and one other of your choice) on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. || lesson 5 || <span class="wiki_link_ext">**For 10/24:** <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Respond to enactment]
 * For 10/24:**
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/22 || Collaborative Unit

Field Experience Journal 3





|| Nominate topics? || <span class="wiki_link">**For 10/29:** <span class="wiki_link">Sixth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|All but sixth group respond to plan]
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/24 || //Mike lesson://

UPLAN Step 4: 10 plans + feedback: <span class="wiki_link">Please post another five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; Please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision: <span class="wiki_link">Write a paragraph explaining how you did this at the top of your page/document (please note that I won't accept work that hasn't attended to feedback) <span class="wiki_link">Please respond to the posts of the one colleagues immediately below your name (and one other of your choice) on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. || <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Respond to enactment]
 * For 11/05:**
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/29 || Collaborative Unit lesson 6 || **For 10/31:**

UPLAN Step 4: 10 plans + feedback: <span class="wiki_link">Please post another five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; Please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision: <span class="wiki_link">Write a paragraph explaining how you did this at the top of your page/document (please note that I won't accept work that hasn't attended to feedback) <span class="wiki_link">Please respond to the posts of the one colleagues immediately below your name (and one other of your choice) on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. || Nominate topics? || **<span class="wiki_link">For 11/05: **
 * For 11/05:**
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/31 || //Mike lesson//:

<span class="wiki_link">Seventh group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|All but seventh group respond to plan]

UPLAN Step 4: 10 plans + feedback: <span class="wiki_link">Please post another five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; Please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision: <span class="wiki_link">Write a paragraph explaining how you did this at the top of your page/document (please note that I won't accept work that hasn't attended to feedback) <span class="wiki_link">Please respond to the posts of the one colleagues immediately below your name (and one other of your choice) on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page.

<span class="wiki_link_ext">For 11/07: Field Experience Journal - Plan ||  <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Respond to enactment]
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/05 || Collaborative Unit lesson 7 || <span class="wiki_link">**For 11/07:**

Field Experience Journal - Plan ||  Nominate topics? || <span class="wiki_link">**For 11/12:** <span class="wiki_link">Eighth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|All but eighth group respond to plan] Standards Webquest?
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/07 || //Mike lesson//:

UPLAN step 5: Full unit plans + self-evaluation Please post your full Unit Plan to your personal page; Please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision: <span class="wiki_link">Write a paragraph explaining how you did this at the top of your page/document (please note that I won't accept work that hasn't attended to feedback) <span class="wiki_link">This time, please include in this paragraph the following: <span class="wiki_link">--how does your Unit Plan address the criteria from our rubric (be specific)? --what has our work on the collaborative unit taught you about your Unit Plan?
 * For 11/14:**

Bring two hard copies of current UPLAN for peer review ||  lesson 8 || **<span class="wiki_link_ext">For 11/14: ** <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Respond to enactment]
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/12 || Collaborative Unit

UPLAN step 5: Full unit plans + self-evaluation Please post your full Unit Plan to your personal page; Please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision: <span class="wiki_link">Write a paragraph explaining how you did this at the top of your page/document (please note that I won't accept work that hasn't attended to feedback) <span class="wiki_link">This time, please include in this paragraph the following: <span class="wiki_link">--how does your Unit Plan address the criteria from our rubric (be specific)? --what has our work on the collaborative unit taught you about your Unit Plan?
 * For 11/21**

Bring two hard copies of current UPLAN for peer review ||  Nominate topics? || <span class="wiki_link">**For 11/19:** <span class="wiki_link">Ninth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Respond to plan] ||  lesson 9 //(Summative Assessment here)// || <span class="wiki_link">**For 11/21:** <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Respond to enactment]
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/14 || Mike lesson:
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/19 || Collaborative Unit

<span class="wiki_link_ext">**For 11/26:** Field Experience- Final Version

(approximate due date depends on placement; must be done by 12/10) ||  Nominate topics? || <span class="wiki_link">**For 11/26:** <span class="wiki_link">Tenth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|All but tenth group respond to plan]
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/21 || Mike lesson:

<span class="wiki_link_ext">**For 11/26:** Field Experience- Final Version

(approximate due date depends on placement; must be done by 12/10) ||  
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/26 || No class ||  ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/28 || Thanksgiving || <span class="wiki_link">**For 12/03:**

Summative assessment response Possible ePortfolio platforms: Weebly.com Wix.com BOLT ePortfolio

Full NCATE/NCTE standards for beginning teachers || Lesson 10 || <span class="wiki_link_ext">**For 12/05:**
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 12/03 || Collaborative Unit

Final UPLAN - Please refer to the rubric and checklist to make sure you've included all the requirements!


 * For 12/05 (by noon):**

<span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Respond to enactment]


 * For 12/10**

Field Experience- Final Version

(approximate due date depends on placement; must be done by 12/10)

Portfolios: please include as a link on your wiki personal page. || Job Search Examples Job Search Peer Review Practicum prep: Lingering questions || <span class="wiki_link">Good luck with spring!
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 12/05 || Course evaluations

<span class="wiki_link">Portfolios
 * For <span class="wiki_link">12/10 **

FEJ - final <span class="wiki_link">Should include: 
 * <span class="wiki_link">journals
 * <span class="wiki_link">annotated plan
 * <span class="wiki_link">annotated video ||