UbD Lesson Plan: Personal Odyssey Scrapbook

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UbD Lesson Plan Personal Odyssey Scrapbook
An Interactive Rough Draft

• Created by
• Terri D. Williams, High school English teacher,
  18 years of teaching, 10 years of learning
  technology

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VITAL INFORMATION

• Subject Literature and Composition (on-line
  course)
• Topic The Odyssey, The Heros Journey
  (Humanities)
• Grade Level Ninth/Tenth grades all levels of
  learners
• Task Learners will prepare to create a
  multimedia scrapbook by completing a Session 1
  task.
• Students will graphically represent important
  life events making use of one of two web tools
  (Interactive timeline, graphic map) offered at
  ReadWriteThink.com.

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STANDARDS

• NETS for Students 2007
• Creativity and Innovation
• Students demonstrate creative thinking,
  construct knowledge, and develop innovative
  products and processes using technology.
  Students
• apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas,
  products, or processes.
• create original works as a means of personal or
  group expression.
• use models and simulations to explore complex
  systems and issues.

Learners have analyzed The Odyssey for its
presentation of archetypes as well as its
delivery of the heros journey. Learners are to
make a connection to The Odyssey by categorizing
their life experiences with 18 designated
references to the heros journey in The Odyssey.
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STANDARDS

• Georgia/District
• ELA9W2 The student demonstrates competence in a
  variety of genres. CC4.The student produces
  technical writing that reports technical
  information and/or conveys ideas clearly,
  logically, and purposefully to a particular
  audience

• NCTE/IRA NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR THE ENGLISH
  LANGUAGE ARTS
• 8. Students use a variety of technological and
  information resources (e.g., libraries,
  databases, computer networks, video) to gather
  and synthesize information and to create and
  communicate knowledge.

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Established Goals

• Learners will make personal connections to The
  Odyssey.
• Learners will chronicle the details and
  discoveries of their life (like those encountered
  by Odyssey) and label their events according to
  the stages of the heros journey.
• Learners will create a timeline or graphic map of
  their personal hero journey to be used as a guide
  to later create a PowerPoint scrapbook that will
  synthesize their understanding of the hero
  journey and demonstrate use of multimedia aids
  (pictures, graphics, symbols, design,
  poetry/lyrics, drawings, photo montages, etc.).

• Learners will interpret and make connections
  through literary analysis, evaluation, and
  comparison.
• Learners will organize material effectively.
• Use available technology to plan and compose.

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Understandings

• Learners will successfully use a web tool to help
  create a timeline for themselves in which they
  view Odysseus as an archetype for today as his
  journey home to Ithaca represents our own
  adventures and discoveries.

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Desired Results

• Essential Question
• Students are to reflect on important events in
  their lives How is my life like an odyssey?

• Knowledge
• DOK Analysis, Synthesis, Create, Design,
  Connect, Apply Concepts
• Skills
• Use of computer, PowerPoint, use of web tools,
  Understanding chronological order, understanding
  how to use an organizer for sequence of events,
  make connections between literature and life

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Experience

• Featured Resources
• Graphic Map This online tool allows students to
  graphically map the high and low points related
  to a particular item or group of items, such as
  life events.
• Interactive Timeline Using this online tool,
  students can generate descriptive timelines that
  can be plotted with their choice of units of
  measure (date, time, event, entry, or other).
• _at_ReadWriteThink.com

• Rationale
• Learners get to use a web tool that engages them
  as they type in information and choose symbols
  for their life experiences ad draft those
  experience according to the heros journey.
  Students are analyzing as well as making
  comparisons. Students make evaluations as they
  decide which life event fits with the description
  of Odysseuss situations. This activity is
  engaging and calls for the learner to utilize
  higher order thinking skills.

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Assessment

• This assignment is the beginning of a larger
  assignment and is used as a motivational strategy
  to engage the learner to create using web tools
  on the Internet. The finished graphic organizer
  will be a blueprint to later create a scrapbook,
  so a formal grade would not be applied here and
  neither would a rubric be used. Such assessment
  would be applied to the larger project.