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This learning module requires the following materials:
This learning module requires the following skills:
Upon completion of this module, students will accomplish the following Learning Objectives:
This learning module utilizes the following 8th Grade English Language Arts Georgia Standards of Excellence (ELA GSE):
This learning module focuses on the following Essential Questions:
This learning module focuses on the following Learning Activities:
This learning module contains the following Assessments:
1. Discussion forum: How does your community remember or honor civil rights leaders? (Use evidence from the module’s video, text, and your own life to support your answer.)
2.Reading comprehension assignment (student choice).
4. BrainPop Challenges (review or graded-student choice)
5. Movie vs. text compare and contrast graphic organizer.
6. Through My Eyes: The Life of . . . (Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King).
7. Extra Credit: Create an original short film adaptation of Selma, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, or Invictus (rubric)
9. Extra Credit: Create a newspaper article over an event about/involving Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela (rubric).
10. Extra Credit: Create an original movie poster for Selma, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, or Invictus (rubric)
Modifications and Accommodations:
Students, before beginning this module, please take a moment to study/review the Quizlet vocabulary set for Martin Luther King Jr. After doing so, if you feel that you need an additional information, log into you Flocabulary account. Click here or use their search bar to locate their video on Martin Luther King Jr. Below is a screenshot of the module.) Watch the video and complete the learning modules activities.
- Chromebook (Internet connected computer)
- Web browser
- Quizlet account (free)
- Clever account (free for DeKalb County School District students)
- BrainPop (free for DeKalb County School District students)
- Flocabulary account (sponsored through Henderson Middle School)
- CommonLit account (free)
- Mission US account (free/optional activity)
This learning module requires the following skills:
- Middle grades reading proficiency (supports claims, summarization, vocabulary).
- Writing (spelling, grammar, punctuation)
- Technology skills (digital citizenship, digital literacy, informational fluency, safe and effective Internet research and navigation, computer use)
- Social & emotional skills (collaboration, empathy, curiosity)
- Participation (responsiveness and time management)
- Familiarity with using Coursesites software
- Familiarity with using PenPal Schools software
- Familiarity with using Quizlet software
- Familiarity with using BrainPop
- Familiarity with using Flocabulary
- Familiarity with using CommonLit software
- Familiarity with using Mission US software
Upon completion of this module, students will accomplish the following Learning Objectives:
- ELAGSE8RI2: Students will learn about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
- ELAGSE8RI2: Students will learn about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- ELAGSE8RI2: Students will learn about the life of Nelson Mandela.
- ELAGSE8RI2: Students will learn about the Anti-Apartheid Revolution in South Africa.
- ELAGSE8RI3: Students will investigate how Gandhi influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.
- ELAGSE8L1: Students will research and share how their community remembers or honors civil rights leaders.
- ELAGSE8RI1: Students will showcase reading proficiency by completing a reading comprehension assignment on discrimination with 70% accuracy.
- ELAGSE8W7: Students will research the life of Martin Luther King Jr. or Nelson Mandela
- ELAGSE8SL5: Students will create and share a brief presentation on Martin Luther King Jr. or Nelson Mandela.
This learning module utilizes the following 8th Grade English Language Arts Georgia Standards of Excellence (ELA GSE):
- ELAGSE8RI1: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
- ELAGSE8RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
- ELAGSE8RI3: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
- ELAGSE8RI7: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.
- ELAGSE8RL7: Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.
- ELAGSE8W10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
- ELAGSE8W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- ELAGSE8SL1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. a). Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
- ELAGSE8SL5: Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
- ELAGSE8L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
- ELAGSE8L2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
- ELAGSE8L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
- ELAGSE8L6: Acquire and accurately use grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
- ELAGSE8W7: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
This learning module focuses on the following Essential Questions:
- Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
- Why is Martin Luther King Jr. regarded as one of America's greatest civil rights leaders?
- Why and how do we celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King Jr.?
- Do you agree with the way Martin Luther King Jr.'s lead his fight for civil rights? (Why or why not?)
This learning module focuses on the following Learning Activities:
- Students will use Quizlet to study the vocabulary words for Module 2 (acquit, apartheid, assassinate, civil rights, equality, liberation, protest).
- Teacher will show (whole class) or students will watch (independently) a BrainPop video on Civil Rights and Martin Luther King Jr. Students will complete the challenge (review or graded quiz) for each BrainPop video.
- Students will use Chromebooks to log into PenPal Schools. The teacher will show the introductory video for Module 2: The Fight for Civil Rights.
- Students will think about the guided questions while they independently read the module’s text. (How did Gandhi influence Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela? What was the Civil Rights Movement in the United States? What was the Anti-Apartheid Revolution in South Africa?)
- Students will participate in the module discussion forum. (How does your community remember or honor civil rights leaders? Use evidence from the module’s video, text, and your own life to support your answer.)
- Students will respond to three peers (in class or global) in the discussion forum.
- Students will chose and complete a reading comprehension assignment on Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, the Civil Rights Movement, or apartheid.
- Students will use a graphic organizer to compare/contrast a movie with the module’s text.
- Students will research the life of Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) or Nelson Mandela (NM). Students will create a brief presentation using Prezi, Adobe Video, Sway, PowerPoint, or eMaze (rubric). Students will post their links on their period’s Class Google Doc.
- Students will use their Google Chromebooks to access a discussion forum (channel) in Microsoft Teams. Students will use Teams to answer Module’s 5 exit ticket: Is there still a need for civil rights leaders? What civil rights are people still fighting for in today’s time period? (The teacher will facilitate a brief classroom discussion to review the students comments, ideas, and opinions.)
This learning module contains the following Assessments:
1. Discussion forum: How does your community remember or honor civil rights leaders? (Use evidence from the module’s video, text, and your own life to support your answer.)
2.Reading comprehension assignment (student choice).
4. BrainPop Challenges (review or graded-student choice)
5. Movie vs. text compare and contrast graphic organizer.
6. Through My Eyes: The Life of . . . (Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King).
7. Extra Credit: Create an original short film adaptation of Selma, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, or Invictus (rubric)
9. Extra Credit: Create a newspaper article over an event about/involving Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela (rubric).
10. Extra Credit: Create an original movie poster for Selma, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, or Invictus (rubric)
Modifications and Accommodations:
- Students with IEPs, please see me for individual modifications on this learning module.
- Students with 504 Plans, please see me for individual modifications on this learning module.
- English Language Learners, please see me for modifications, accommodations, and access to additional resources.
Students, before beginning this module, please take a moment to study/review the Quizlet vocabulary set for Martin Luther King Jr. After doing so, if you feel that you need an additional information, log into you Flocabulary account. Click here or use their search bar to locate their video on Martin Luther King Jr. Below is a screenshot of the module.) Watch the video and complete the learning modules activities.
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Quickwrite 29
What skills, talents, and/or training should a great video game designer possess?
KWL Chart 30
Create a KWL Chart for learning about being a Video Game Designer. The KWL Chart should be a 3x2 graphic organizer that lists What You Know (Column 1), What You Want to Know (Column 2), and What You Learned (Column 3).
What skills, talents, and/or training should a great video game designer possess?
KWL Chart 30
Create a KWL Chart for learning about being a Video Game Designer. The KWL Chart should be a 3x2 graphic organizer that lists What You Know (Column 1), What You Want to Know (Column 2), and What You Learned (Column 3).
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Final Level
Task: Create a presentation on becoming a video game designer, developer, or programmer. (Items marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.) Your presentation should include the following:
- *Introduction
- *What is a Video Game Designer? (Note-substitute developer/programmer if needed.)
- *What degree/type of education, skills, and/or training do you need to have to be a video game designer? (Do you need a degree to become a video game designer/developer/programmer? Tip-Degree fields include but are not limited to: Game Design Degree, Game Development Degree, Game Art Degree, Programming, Software Engineering, Computer Science, and Design Tools.)
- *What is a video game designer salary?
- *What is it like to work in the field of video gaming (design/development/programming)?
- Differences between a video game designer, video game developer, and video game programmer?
- What are the levels of game design?
- Female minority in the field of software engineering/coding/video game design.
- Discuss the lack of minorities in the field of gaming, programming, and/or coding.
Extra Life
Code Documentary Teaser (2014). If you are having difficulties viewing this video, click here or use this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zolhgjOX27A