Up+Close+and+Personal+Lesson+GAME+Plan

**Daily Lesson GAME Plan **
 * Rachel Odland’s **

__Grade Level/Course: __ Eighth Grade Read 180 __Unit: __ Eyes on the Graduation Prize: Nation’s Drop-out Epidemic ||
 * __Lesson Title: __ Up Close and Personal: Nation’s Drop-out Epidemic Interviews

__Content Standards: __ 4. Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes. 8. Students use a variety of technological and information resources to gather and synthesize information to create and communicate knowledge. __Addressed ISTE-NETS-S __ ü Communication and Collaboration ü Research and Information fluency ü Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making ü Technology operations and concepts __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Instructional Objectives: __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 11.5pt;">-Students will be able to identify characteristics of a quality interview and recording. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 11.5pt;">-Students will be able to formulate clear interview questions to fit their intended audience. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 11.5pt;">-Students will be able to effectively use a video recorder to capture their interviews. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 11.5pt;">-Students will select a visual diagram to organize the interview information. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 11.5pt;">-Students will be able to synthesize the interview responses in a blog summary. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">GOALS **

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ACTION **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 4pt;">Check-out flip cameras, and charge, to use for interview recordings. Borrow a high quality and low quality student interview recording from the seventh grade English teacher in the building. Create an example sheet of poor quality and high quality interview questions and interview summaries. Create different formats of electronic templates to organize interview questions. ||
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Before- Class Preparation: __

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During Class **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Time ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Instructional Activities **  ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Materials & Resources **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">25-30 minutes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">To begin the lesson, students view the two student interview videos. They compare the videos, using a Venn diagram, determining criteria for high and low quality interviews. Students share their ideas on the Venn diagram located on the Smart board. A wireless mouse and keyboard are passed amongst students to add to their ideas to the class Venn diagram. We quickly transfer this criteria using rubistar software; students help create a rubric for this assignment. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Student Interview Videos, LCD projector, speakers, journals, pencils, interactive smart board, wireless keyboard and mouse, internet access, [|www.rubistar.com] ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">15 minutes

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">20 minutes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">On the smart board, students take turns using the wireless mouse to slide quality and poor interview questions into the correct category. Students openly discuss why they agree or disagree with their peers’ selections. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Students are given a teacher created graphic organizer with good-open-ended questions, and poor-close-ended questions. Using the graphic organizer as a model, in groups, students develop one good and one poor interview question related to drop-out rates on a note card. Students may refer to their textbook as needed. A quick game is played among groups. In Family Feud style, two students compete at a time to determine whether the question read is high or low quality. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">interactive smart board, wireless keyboard and mouse, internet access

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Graphic organizer <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Note cards/pencils <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Group assignments <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Text-books || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Each group uses the teacher created interview question example sheet, interview question template, their previous blog posts, text-book information, previous QUEST research information, and rubric, to create interview questions appropriate to the audience they will interview. Students are reminded of the problem they addressed in previous lessons: What can we do about the national drop-out epidemic? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-Overhead slide with audience assignment for each group <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-Teacher created interview example sheet, access to previous blog posts/computers/internet, text-book, past QUEST research, rubric <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-Interview question template || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Media Specialist <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Journals/ Pencils || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-Phone or email <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-Completed interview question templates <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-Pencils/erasers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-computer /internet access || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-Interview question template/recording sheet <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-Writing utensil || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Notes template <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Inspiration software || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Computer access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Read and Write Gold Software <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Summary Criteria/Example ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">30 minutes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Groups are given an authentic audience to interview: teachers, principal, deans, superintendent, community education coordinators, coaches, school board members, parents, and students.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">15-20 minutes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">A quick demonstration of how to use flip cameras is presented by the media specialist in the building. Students are given time to practice using the cameras and ask questions to the media specialist. Students record in their journals what they need to remember while using the flip cameras. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Flip cameras
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">30 minutes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Students contact their audience to set-up an interview. Students practice and rehearse roles during the interview: recorder, interviewer, note-taker, and technical support/time manager. Students reflect on their rehearsal using a blog entry. Students give and receive feedback from the teacher and their classmates using the rubric. Students revise accordingly. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-Flip cameras
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">30 minutes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Student groups conduct and record interview with their intended audience. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">-Flip cameras
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">30 minutes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 11.5pt;">After watching their interview and taking notes on template, students select a visual diagram, such as inspiration, to organize the interview information for their summary. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">Flip-camera software/computers/audio
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">30 minutes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 11.5pt;">Students will use their graphic organizers, teacher criteria/example, and Read and Write Gold Software, as desired, to synthesize the interview responses in a group blog summary. Students respond to at least two other group blog summaries. Students reflect in a final blog about what they learned from others’ interview and this entire process. They contemplate where we go from here and how can this information be used. || <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 173.0pt; tabstops: 173.0pt;">[|www.kidblog.org]

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Monitor **

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Accommodations and Extensions: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Students are given the option of using Inspiration and Read and Write Gold Software. Roles amongst group members are designed for each student to pursue their area of strength. Students may want to practice using flip cameras and interviews with other groups before interviewing their intended audience. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Back-up Plan: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> If previous student interviews are not available from my colleague, examples will be located from Flat Classroom or a similar social network. ||
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On-going Assessment: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Students’ progress will be monitored through discussions, questions, blog entries, journal entries, teacher observation of group work, graphic organizers, interview template questions, interview notes, interview summary, and blog reflection.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Evaluation **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 4.7pt;">This unit may propose a challenge for students for a variety of reasons. The first is communication skills. Students may need explicit instruction and practice speaking formally, making eye contact, and using active listening skills. More training may be needed on body language while being recorded in a formal setting. Cultural barriers also must be addressed. English Language Learners may need further one-on-one consultation on communicating clearlyand time to clarify any confusion due to language used by person being interviewed (figurative language, phrases, and cultural references). ||
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lesson Reflection and Notes: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Students will be evaluated on their blog entries, journal entries, teacher observation of group work, graphic organizers, interview template questions, interview notes, interview recording, summary, feedback to their peers, and final blog reflection. The student-teacher created rubric will be used to assess the above criteria.

References

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