Week+1

=Week One class outline= Our plan is for //Night// and //The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian// to have been introduced in the two weeks prior as reading material to have completed by the start of this unit. Therefore, students will come into this unit already familiar with the texts, and we will revisit them during the course of the unit.

Discussion/Lecture on Native Americans & Jews [|Podcast Part 1] [|Podcast Part 2]
 * Monday:** The goal of today’s lesson is to introduce the history of Native Americans and Jews. Both groups have a complicated and vast place in history and today, but I will introduce this information to the students using a lecture format with PowerPoint, and a Google Lit Trip. I will provide the notes of the slides and destinations of the Lit Trip to all students, but the students will be required to take additional notes on these sheets.
 * Tuesday:** The goal of today’s lesson is to introduce and explain the KWL chart assignment. Also, the students will fill in the K and W sections of the chart, and then hand in the assignment to me for safe keeping until a later date. The purpose of the KWL chart is to get the students to critically think about Native Americans and Jews.
 * Wednesday:** The goal of today’s lesson is to introduce the purpose of a podcast interview, introduce the guest speaker on the podcast, and the issues pertaining to source reliability/perspective/context. Also, while listening to the podcast in class, the students will be provided a copy of the podcast interview questions. This will help students follow along and keep notes on the podcast interview. After listening to the podcast we will have a de-brief section which will allow the students to better synthesize and critically think about what they just heard. As a way to farther the students’ comprehension of the material, a homework assignment will be given and discussed in class.
 * Thursday:** The goal of today’s lesson is to de-brief about the podcast interview through a set of homework questions that will wrap up that particular part of the week’s lesson by reinforcing a higher order thinking of responses. Later in the class period the gallery walk activity will be introduced and explained to the students. The goal of the gallery walk is to further students’ critical understanding and knowledge about Native Americans and Jews through an activity that incorporates higher order thinking.
 * Friday:** The goal of today’s lesson is for the students to take part in a gallery walk that will display the students’ depth of knowledge and diverse critical thinking about important aspects of Native American and Jewish history. Today is important because students will be able to critically compare posters in an attempt to broaden their knowledge base and perspectives on these histories. This will happen through the graphic organizer that I have prepared for the students to complete while participating in the gallery walk. Also, this lesson will work on a key life skill of public speaking because students have to de-brief their posters with the class as a group. Finally, a last de-brief/class discussion on the graphic organizers to help warp-up the unit and bring closure to the week.