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 *  Grade Level: **

 Science Fiction 
 *  Unit: **

**Student will understand: ** **Student will be able to: **   One month (done outside of class) 
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Lesson Objectives: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Practice comprehensive thinking through interdisciplinary study, combining reading, writing, math, art, science and social studies
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Read a variety of genres - specifically science fiction for this lesson
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Teach students how scientific fact can be used as a base for literary fiction
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Explore the idea of free will and freedom of speech
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Practice essay writing
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Work on group collaboration and collaborative writing
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Using group work as a platform to discuss compromise and understanding as a life skill
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Gain knowledge about the opinions of others on scientific advancement
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Visually understand the complexity of a tesseract
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The relationship between social studies, science, writing, and reading
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The uniqueness of our country through freedom of speech/thought
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The application of vocabulary and grammar to essay writing
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">How knowledge from other subjects is vital to the understanding of Language Arts
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The importance of collaboration and compromise as a life skill
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">How many novels are rooted in real-world issues and facts, and are designed to motivate the reader to think about their own world
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Write about scientific and social or political matter
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Understand how to effectively work as a group on a writing project
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Compromise and incorporate feedback on their writing
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Identify a country or culture that does not value freedom as our country does
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Explain and visually identify what a tesseract is
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Discuss general opinion on scientific advancement
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Create a comprehensive and engaging book review
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Time Required to complete this lesson:   **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "Group Project: A Wrinkle in Time" <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Title of lesson:   **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Description of lesson: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The impetus for this lesson is to arouse students to understand the real-world application and rooting of many fiction novels. //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">A Wrinkle in Time //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> is a novel we will be reading to cover the science fiction genre, and will allow us to discuss the scientific basis of the novel, and also the social issues addressed. I have chosen to make this strictly an out of class assignment to allow students to practice time management, and collaboration through technology - both issues they will no doubt have to experience many times in their lives and future jobs. Students will learn about collaborative writing through multiple mini-essay group writing, will survey a variety of people to discover popular thought on scientific advancement, will need to visually articulate the scientific fact of a tesseract, and finally write a engaging and eloquent book review.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Assignment (homework or in-class: this is how the learner will practice the learning that has just occurred): **
 * All of the instructions for this group project can be found on my "A Wrinkle in Time" ** Google Knol **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> here <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|http://knol.google.com/k/anonymous/a-wrinkle-in-time-literature-circle/3u182110bm4lb/1#] . I used ** Google Images ** to find a picture of the cover of the book for my Knol. This project is due is stages, so I have provided a calendar using ** Google Calendar **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> incorporating all of the due dates for the different parts of the assignment found here <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[| http://www.google.com/calendar/render] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">MINI-ESSAYS: Students will practice collaborative writing using Google Docs. I will be sending out the document with the list of questions found here: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Students will need to use **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google Docs **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> and **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google Images **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> for this assignment.
 * SURVEY: Students will be demonstrating knowledge about public opinion on scientific advancement through the surveying of 40 students on a question relating to a topic in this novel using ** Google Forms. **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Here is an example that I have created <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[]
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">BOOK REVIEW: Finally, students will need to work together to create an appropriate book review on their groups decided opinion on the book using **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google Books **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">. The review must respectively allow each group member their voice on the subject. Here is a sample review I created on my Google account: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> **Resources/materials needed** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Computer
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Internet
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google Knol
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google Images
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google Calendar
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google Docs
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google Forms
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google Books
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">a Google account
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">copies of //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">A Wrinkle in Time //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Technology used: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Computer
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Internet
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Above mentioned Google applications
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way:   **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Google applications used in this lesson allow students to use technology to work collaboratively on a project - much as they maybe would in a real-world working environment. Google docs allows students to edit each others' essays, while Google Forms allows them to put together survey information and share that information with others quickly and easily, Google Images allows them to find a picture of a tesseract easily and easily incorporate it into their essays. Google Knol and Google Calendar allows students to access the information needed for the project at all times without having to use paper, and also allows them to post comments and for me to respond quickly.