Over the course of the year, I created many unit plans. Some were written in a formal manner, using backwards design, as part of my coursework for the MAT program. Others were designed (less formally) during my student teaching, for use in the 2 - 3 classes I taught full time this year. There is some overlap between these two categories.

Below, I have included all of the Unit Plans that I created specifically for the MAT Program, as well as a couple of the less-formally-created plans of which I am most proud.

Moral Ambiguity: Good and Evil

June 20, 2011
Below is the unit plan I completed in the July 2010 as part of Stacy Golden's ED620 - Educational Seminar. The Unit, based on ASD's 11th-grade Language Arts Curriculum Guide, focuses on exploring the ideas of "Good" and "Evil", drawing on Shakespeare's Macbeth (just finished) and the Five People You Meet in Heaven (just starting).

Moral Ambiguity: Good and Evil
Lesson#1: Introducing Eddie

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Podcasting Lessons

June 20, 2011
For this project, \created as part of Jason Ohler's ED632 Educational Technology course, I learned how to create podcasts and demonstrated mastery of this new skill by creating a satirical podcast (called “stupid questions”) with the help of my 3rd-hour class, ( click here to watch it on YouTube). Then, I used backwards design to create a series of six English-content-area lessons that utilize podcasting. I can’t wait to use podcasting in my classroom!

Podcasting Lessons

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Media Literacy / Persuasion

June 20, 2011
Using backwards design and based on the ASD 9th Grade Language Arts Curriculum Guide, I taught my 9th grade students a 6-week unit on media literacy and persuasion, with an emphasis on recognizing persuasive techniques used in advertising. As culminating projects, they composed persuasive essays and created public service announcement posters. In November 2010, as part of ED620 - Curriculum Development, I wrote up this unit in more formalized backwards design format. I include some of the han...
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Uniquely Alaskan Unit

June 20, 2011
In Spring 2011, as part of ED600 - Alaska Studies, taught by Tom Pennington, I created a "uniquely Alaskan Lesson Plan". This backwards-design lesson plan teaches students about the literary movements of naturalism and realism as they read Jack London's "To Build a Fire" and incorporates lessons on hypothermia (including a fun quiz), lessons on writing descriptively using the five sense (after getting semi-hypothermic), a "uniquely Alaskan" class speaker, and a lesson in writing proper thank ...
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Cultures at a Crossroads: American and Alaskan Civil Rights

June 20, 2011
This Unit was designed in August 2010 as a final project for both ED680 - Multicultural Education (Jody Smothers-Marcello) and ED631 - Educational Psychology (Karin Macklin). Special focuses of the unit included incorporating the Alaskan Cultural Standards, accommodating students of different developmental levels and abilities, and creating curriculum that is accessible to students of all cultures in my learning community (West Anchorage High School). This unit was part of a collaborative cro...
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House on Mango Street

June 19, 2011
I developed an informal unit with my own original lessons and handouts for the purpose of teaching the House on Mango Street to my English 10 class during the fall semester. The unit was designed using standards from Unit 2 of the ASD 10th Language Arts Curriculum Guide. In June 2011, I created a formalized unit plan and three lesson plans for the content I had already created for my ED693 class, taught by Emily Davis.

This unit focuses on the idea of the American Dream, the immigrant experie...
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