Unit Lesson Plan
This unit lesson will introduce non-native speakers of English to the American storytelling tradition through Jack Tales.
Objectives:
Build competency in all four of the learning modalities: reading, writing, listening, and speaking and develop critical thinking skills.
After completing the activites in this unit students will be able to:
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Students will build on their background knowledge to develop a deeper appreciation and knowledge of their relationship with the North American culture.
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Students will demonstrate an awareness of, and respect for, the range of cultures, human behaviors, experience, emotions and ideas conveyed throughout the storytelling tradition.
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Students will begin to understand how environment affects lifestyle and culture.
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Students will gain an understanding of how our past affects our present and our future.
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Students will be able to use and analyze primary and secondary sources of evidence.
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Students will demonstrate the ability to read for meaning, enjoyment and information.
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Students will demonstrate the ability to interpret and respond to various types of literature.
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Students will demonstrate the ability to use oral language to clarify and extend their personal understanding of what they observe, feel, hear and read through interaction with others.
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Students will demonstrate respect for the ideas, language and communication styles of others and awareness of the need for sensitive and thoughtful responses.
Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems (CASAS) Competencies:
| 0.1.5 | Identify or use appropriate classroom behavior |
| 0.1.6 | Clarify or request clarification |
| 0.2.3 | Interpret or write a personal note, invitation, or letter |
| 0.2.4 | Converse about daily and leisure activities and personal interests |
| 7.2.4 | Identify or make inferences through inductive and deductive reasoning to hypothesize, predict, conclude, and synthesize; distinguish fact from opinion, and determine what is mandatory and what is discretionary |
| 7.2.6 | Generate ideas using divergent (brainstorming) and convergent (focus) approaches, and also through creative imagination |
| 7.3 | Demonstrate ability to use problem solving skills |
| 7.4.2 | Take notes or write a summary or an outline |
| 7.4.5 | Use reference materials, such as dictionaries and encyclopedias |
| 0.1.7 | Understand, follow or give instructions, including commands and polite requests (e.g., Do this; Will you do this?) |
| 0.1.8 | Understand or use appropriate language to express emotions and states of being (e.g., happy, hungry, upset) |
