Description
- Overview:
- During this problem-based learning unit, students will explore dystopian societies of past and in short stories in order to identify dystopian elements in today’s society. In turn, students will have a choice between multiple product outputs in which they will apply what they have learned to modern day life and provide ideas of how to improve our society by combating these dystopian elements.*Students will need some prior knowledge of Nazi Germany, Civil Rights America in 1930’s, Present Day China, and Sierra Leone in order to make connections to why these societies have dystopian elements.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts, History
- Level:
- Middle School
- Grades:
- Grade 7, Grade 8
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Blended Learning Teacher Practice Network
- Date Added:
- 07/23/2018
- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Audio, Downloadable docs, Interactive
Standards
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
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Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 7Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 8Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1���3 above.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1���3 above.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
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Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
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Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
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Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
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Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
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Tags (12)
- 21st Century Skills
- Bl
- Blended Learning
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Critical Thinking Skills
- Dystopian Society
- Middle School
- PBL
- Problem-Based Learning
- Problem Solving Skills
- Station Rotation
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