teachingunitproposal

=Teaching Unit Proposal for publication on "Teach Secondary Writing Wiki"= This proposal should outline your ideas for a writing teaching unit suitable for an instructor to use with secondary students. Your audience for this proposal is this website's review board: English education professors who teach pre-service secondary teachers.Your proposal should clearly and concisely convey this unit's main objectives, evidence support through research/outside sources, and show relevancy to current Michigan English Language Arts content expectations. Please submit a proposal which includes the following components, each component formatted as a heading and accompanied with the required information. Be concious of how grouping, spacing, headings, and bulleted lists might help your readers understand your ideas.

Name of Assignment
Give this lesson a name which concisely gives readers an idea of what the unit will cover.

Name of Preparer
Your name, and if this assignment is in some way "inspired" by a key English scholar/educator (such as Linda Christenson), please mention the scholar/text you used as a mentor.

Grade Level
Your assignment should be applicable in at least a two-grade span (i.e. 6-8 grades, 9-10, etc.). You may also consider what "type" of student population this assignment is targeting. That is, do you envision this working well with urban students, English Language Learners, an AP class...

Overview
Include a 200 word (maximum!) of what this assignment will cover. Is this assignment connected to specific literary works, based on a theme? What genre (or genres) will the students be expected to study and/or compose? Does this assignment require students to use technology, visit the library, do field research?

From Theory to Practice
You should list at least two sources you have consulted for creating this assignment (one source may be from class readings). Also be sure to include a 200 word (maximum!) description of this assignment's relevancy. That is, in the "big picture" of teaching students critical thinking and writing, how does this assignment fit? Why does this assignment in particular benefit students?

Student Objectives
Explain specifically what students will gain from doing this assignment. You may write this in paragraph form or using a bulleted list.

Michigan ELA Content Expectations
List by number and brief description which CEs the instructor will teach using this unit. To view the Michigan Standards/Content Expectations for ELA teachers, click here.

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