Build Your Own Curriculum Needs--ELA
Course—DUE April 8, 2011
Overview
Enduring Understandings
Essential Questions
Essential Skills
Materials (textbooks, etc)
Unit One—DUE June 2, 2011
This includes the unit overview, topics,
and all activities for unit one.
Course
Unit
Title of the Unit
Springboard: Title of Unit
Lab: Title of Unit
Topic
Time Frame of the Unit
Springboard: must be in # of days for BYOC calendar purposes
Lab: must be in # of days for BYOC calendar purposes
Description of the Unit
Springboard: use the description at the beginning of each Springboard unit “Unit Overview”
Lab: 3-6 sentence summary of the topics covered throughout the unit (i.e. How individuals view the world and its’ events
create unique perspectives. In this unit students will be exploring viewpoints and how they change or stay the same as a result
of events. Students will be reading and responding to a variety of passages that present multiple perspectives in order to form
their own perspective.)
Enduring Understandings for the Unit
Springboard: Use the AP/College Readiness box at the beginning of each unit to formulate these.
Lab: What should students understand by the end of the unit, use unit focus standards to help develop these.
Essential Questions for the Unit
Springboard: Use the essential questions in Springboard at the beginning of each unit—in a few cases you might find that they
need to be modified.
Lab: What should students be able to answer by the end of the unit, use focus standards and enduring understandings to
develop these. Ideally, enduring understandings and essential questions should mirror each other.
Academic Vocabulary for the Unit
Springboard: Use the academic voc. listed at the beginning of each Springboard unit.
Lab: Create a list for the unit, be sure to use language from your focus standards to help create this list.
Assessments for the Unit
Springboard: Keep this general (Formative; Summative; Embedded)
Lab: Keep this general (Formative; Summative; Performance)
Materials and Resources for the Unit
Springboard: List general items needed for the unit (i.e. Springboard text; Videos; Suggested Texts)
Lab: Create a list for the unit (i.e. Books; Videos)
***Attach Unit Assessments
Topics-This is where units are broken down
Topic Title
Springboard: Use the titles of the Learning Focuses, so you should have about two topics for each Springboard unit
Lab: Create topics for the units this should be natural (i.e. perspective, research, central idea, structure, argument)
Time Frame of Topic
Springboard: must be in # of days for BYOC calendar purposes
Lab: must be in # of days for BYOC calendar purposes
Description of the Topic
Springboard: Use the Learning Focus Description from Springboard
Lab: 1-2 sentences describing the topic use the focus standards that feed into the topic to help with this
Learning Targets for the Topic
Springboard: Teacher Targets—this is going to look different than most other content areas because Springboard spirals, use
your deconstructed units to determine what standards are addressed in what lessons.
Lab: Teacher Targets from Focus Standards
Activities—these are for each topic under the unit
Activity Title
Springboard: Use springboard titles (i.e. Activity 1.2; Activity 2.4)
Lab: This could be the title of the reading passage being used; activity title; writing piece; project, etc.
Activity Description
Springboard: Currently we will only have to list:
Student Friendly Learning Target(s) for the Lesson
Timeframe in Days
Page Numbers from the Springboard Text
Any Extra Materials Needed for the Activity
Attach any Necessary Documents for the Activity
**Eventually you will need to add all of the steps for each activity in the description section so if you want to start this during
the summer or as you teach the lessons next year that would be beneficial.
Lab: List the following:
Student Friendly Learning Target(s) for the Lesson
Timeframe in Days
Step-by-Step instructions for the lesson (think lesson plans from this year)
Any Extra Materials Needed for the Activity
Attach any Necessary Documents for the Activity
Learning Target for the Activity
(you should be able to just check mark these instead of typing them in, I am currently adding these to BYOC)
Springboard: Teacher Target for the Activity
Lab: Teacher Target for the Activity