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Heritage Unit Week One Week One: Discussing Heritage & Form = Audience + Purpose Friday (Day 1) Objectives • Students will be able to familiarize themselves with the text that they will be reading for this unit, Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior • Students will discuss the definition of heritage • Students will be able to work collaboratively Themes • Heritage Definition; Text Pre-Reading Assessment/Homework: Group work “heritage maps”; Bookmark Prompt (Things to consider while reading assigned text) Materials: Big paper/Posters for heritage maps; markers; Woman Warrior; handout of unit “roadmap” Monday (Day 2)

Objectives

Tuesday (Day 3)

Wednesday (Day 4)

Thursday (Day 5)

Friday (Day 6)

Students will be able to:

Students will be able to:

Students will be able to:

Students will be able to:

Students will be able to:

Discuss heritage definition

Discuss how information is presented according to audience & apply it to text

Apply F=A+P to the interview process

Share opinions of text

Recognize how information is presented according to audience

Identify key elements & character relations in text

Recognize a multi-genre text

Practice applying the formula to images

Apply the formula to human behavior (i.e. code switching)

Analyze example interviews Apply the formula to key dialogue in text

Discuss multi-genre in text Clarify plot details

(Key Lesson #1) Elements of Heritage Themes

Form = Audience + Purpose

Form = Audience + Purpose

Form = Audience + Purpose

Multi- Genre

Code switching

Interviewing

Multi-Genre

Relationships Heritage

First impressions w/text

Plot work Dialogue

Assessment/HW Materials

Bookmark Prompt

Bookmark Prompt

Woman Warrior Student Heritage Maps

Video Clips Woman Warrior Handout w/images

Bookmark Prompt: Double Entry Journal Woman Warrior Activity Handout

Bookmark Prompt Videos of interviews Written interviews Radio interviews

In-Class Journal Entry Bookmark Prompt For Mon: Heritage Idea for project due Woman Warrior

Heritage Unit Week One

Week Two: Building a Quality Inquiry Monday (Day 7)

Objectives

Wednesday (Day 9)

Thursday (Day 10)

Friday (Day 11)

Students will be able to:

Students will be able to:

Students will be able to:

Students will be able to:

Students will be able to:

Map out what they know and what they want to learn about the person/heritage

Practice questioning facevalue

Explore different ways of collecting data

Revisit previous interview discussion

Reflect on the novel as a model for Heritage Project

Recognize authentic questions and formulate their own

Revisit F= A+P

Practice developing interview questions (based on the text)

Experiment with brainstorming strategies

Themes

Tuesday (Day 8)

Share ideas with peers

Give/Gain peer feedback and revise their questions

Experiment research possibilities with one of their developed questions

Heritage

Heritage

Brainstorming: What do we know? What don’t we know?

Quality Inquiry Idea, Feedback, Revision

Research Process

Revisit heritage discussions

Conduct “mock” interviews with peers and present data

Develop interview questions for project

Multi-Genre/Mode

Quality Inquiry

Multi-Genre

Multi-Media

Multi-Modes for minipresentations

Heritage

Form = Audience + Purpose

Interview Process Interview Process

Research Process Research Process

Interpersonal Communication

Focus Sheet for lab work

Due: Developed 4-5 key questions for Heritage Portfolio

(Key Lesson #2) Due: Heritage Idea/Subject

In-Class Journal Entry

Bookmark Prompt: What questions do you think Kingston had before writing this memoir? Woman Warrior Model brainstorming ideas

For Thurs: Develop 4-5 key questions that your heritage portfolio aims to answer “Migrant Mother” photo

Assessment/HW

Materials

Bookmark Prompt: Double Entry Journal Media Center Focus Sheet

For Mon: Prepare a rough list of possible modes you are interested in using in the heritage portfolio Student Heritage Maps

Heritage Unit Week One

Week 3

Heritage Unit Week One

Monday (Day 12)

Tuesday (Day 13)

Wednesday (Day 14)

Thursday (Day 15)

Friday (Day 16)

Multiple Genres as a metaphor for identity

Resource Credibility

Peer Review

Genre of focus: letters

Genre of focus: digital spaces, websites

Bias

Rubric Development

Peer Review

key lesson

Peer feedback on outlines

Letter writing activity

Digital spaces activity

Large group discussion about how the project will be graded

Research Time

Research Time (media center)

Participation

Participation

Participation

Goals

Lessons

Assessment/HW

Peer feedback on outlined ideas Workshop interview questions

Groups present their mini lessons on each mode transformation and citation

Peer Review Handout Participation

Complete a polished outline of possible artifacts to use in portfolio, include some detail

Crafts Materials

Transformation Jigsaw activity

Heritage Unit Week One

WEEK 4

Heritage Unit Week One

Monday (Day 17)

Tuesday (Day 18)

Wednesday (Day 19)

Thursday (Day 20)

Friday (Day 21)

Genre of focus: Poetry

Present Portfolio Artifacts

Present Portfolio Artifacts

Reflection

Genre of focus: non fiction

Non Fiction Activity

Research Time

Goals

Lessons

Research Time

Journal Entry Assignment Evaluation followed by discussion – how did it go? Did you enjoy it? Enjoy the weekend

Assessment/HW Journal Materials

Heritage Unit Week One

Heritage Unit Week One