Part+B

LE 3 - Part B

Here's what I've got so far.

Found this high school lesson on //The Piano Lesson//. May give us some ideas: []

1. Develop a list of 15 possible specific sub-topics for students across a range of achievement levels to explore in individual topics.
 * 1) August Wilson - biographical
 * 2) The Century Cycle - Pittsburgh Plays
 * 3) Pittsburgh/The Hill District in the 1930s
 * 4) Ragtime in the 1930s - maybe combine some of the musics? Not sure about the different categories.
 * 5) Jazz in the 1930s
 * 6) Musicals (Anything Goes, Porgy & Bess, The Wizard of Oz, etc.)?
 * 7) Swing/big band in the 1930s
 * 8) Blues in the 1930s
 * 9) Romare Bearden's influence on August Wilson
 * 10) Charles "Teenie" Harris
 * 11) Ghosts in plays/literature - holding onto the past
 * 12) The Great Depression
 * 13) The Great Migration
 * 14) Slavery - Black Ancestry - Black Cultural Heritage
 * 15) Materialism vs. honor
 * 16) Artifacts

2. Prepare a lesson plan for a learning experience that introduces the book/topic and extends the students' understanding, appreciation, and/or enjoyment of the book/topic. Does anyone have a lesson plan format they like to use? Then we could just fill it in and make sure we include the following. Include: a. Student learning objectives b. Student understandings to demonstrate prior knowledge and deeper abstract ideas c. Two related Common Core State Standards in the appropriate curriculum area d. Two related Standards for the 21st Century Learner (AASL) e. Teaching strategies f. Resources and equipment needed g. Assessment of student learning Consider what teaching/learning can be accomplished in a given amount of time: a period, a day, a week, a grading period. Assume that the school day has seven periods.

3. Prepare a school-day-long series of activities for a culminating learning experience that draws upon what the students have learned from reading the book and engages them in an activity. a. Plan a schedule of school-day-long series of activities that involve both learning and enjoyment (e.g. food events, performances, learning stations, field trips, guest speakers). b. Describe each activity and the resources and equipment needed. c. Describe how students, teachers, parents, and guests might be involved in the activities.

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