IU+Couture+Jenny

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Critical Content/Concept Web

 * Unit Theme**: Retelling
 * Conceptual Lens:** design
 * Unit Length:** 6-8 weeks


 * ===Unit Overview=== ||
 * You are a newspaper journalist responsible for retelling a favorite story in your school and local newspaper. Using a digital camera, or pixie, you will draw, or become the characters, choose or use props to design the setting(s), and write dialogue that best represents the beginning, middle, and end of your story. You will be putting all of these pieces together to create your comic strip in comic life or makebeliefcomix.com. You will orally present your piece to classmates and to the local paper. All of your friends, neighbors, peers, and family will be able to read your final comic strip in one of the two newspapers! ||

Five worksheet) oral retelling BME projects(comic life, flip charts, or Pixie) Interviews Visualizing and Inferring Exploration with "connections" Smart board- sequencing of main events. || literacy texts || Journals Sandwich stories ||  ||   || Sandwiches! BME project Mask making || Reading Writing Art technology ||
 * English /Language Arts || Reading || Writing || Social Studies || Second Language || Art || Insert Integration Area ||
 * story maps(High-

Designer(s): Jenny R. Couture and Brenda Burnell
Students will understand that retelling is a way to communicate ideas about the books we read. Essential Question: How is retelling used and applied in the regular classroom and in the larger world?

**MBRSD - District Mission Statement** MBRSD is committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and accepting environment where students can explore and develop their creative and intellectual abilities. We shall educate students, promote their self-esteem, and encourage them to achieve their maximum potential. Students will demonstrate the ability to solve problems and to be self directed life-long learners. As productive members of our society students will demonstrate compassion and ethical judgment.