Tennessee Diploma Project:
Tennessee’s Future
9-12 English Standard Awareness
Me In Three
 Take an index card
 Write your name, school, and school
district on one side.
 On the other side number from one to
three and do the following:
1. Write a general statement about yourself.
2. Write a statement about yourself that is a
little more specific.
3. Write a statement that would only apply to
you.
Tennessee Diploma Project:
Tennessee’s Future Video
Presented by Dr. Susan Bunch
March 14, 2008
Middle Tennessee State University
3 Minute Buzz
Share with your table partners
 Your note card with your last word or
words
 Your Ahha’s from the video
 Your Affirmations from the video
 Your questions and concerns
Discussion Strategy:
The Six Thinking Hats
 White Hat—Facts about the topic
 Red Hat—Feelings about the topic
(emotion)
 Yellow Hat—Positive things about the topic
 Gray Hat—Judging a topic (the
disadvantages and problems)
 Green Hat—Other thoughts; new ideas,
creativity
 Blue Hat—Summary of the whole topic;
most important learning; What will we do
next?
8 Concept Strands
 Language: Covers grammar, mechanics,
vocabulary, and sentence structure.
 Communication: Builds speaking and listening
skills, in both formal and informal situations;
begins skills of groups and team participation
begins at middle grades.
 Writing: Includes instruction in generating,
drafting, organizing, and proofreading writing
in a variety of modes and for a variety of
audiences.
 Research: Instructs in conducting research,
attributing sources appropriately, and
evaluating the reliability of resources.
 Logic: Trains students to think reasonably,
follow logical trains of thought, avoid faulty
reasoning, and weighs evidence.
 Informational Text: Emphasizes the methods
necessary to comprehend the organizational
structures and graphics employed in
informational text.
 Media: Focuses on the ways in which the
functions and techniques of a variety of media
contribute to the message they attempt to
convey.
 Literature: Acquaints students with a wide
range of literary types and diverse content,
including both the conventions of the literacy
genres and the themes and concepts reflecting
the human condition.
Standard Language
Standard
(Concept
Strand)
Course Learning
Expectations
Checks for
Understanding
SPI
s
 Learning/Course
Expectations—set forth
the expected outcomes
for that strand
 Checks for
Understanding—
delineate the classroom
behaviors to be focused
on at each grade
 State Performance
Indicators—indicate the
assessment criteria for
that specific grade level
Survey
Aligning Standards:
Looking at the SPI’s
Strategy--Activity Connection
Strategy: A Plan for Achieving a Specific
Purpose
Activities: A Specific Exercise Designed
to Complement the Strategy
Standard 1: Language
 Sentence Strips
The Importance of
Learning Word Parts
Once students know the meanings
of many roots, prefixes, and
suffixes, they can use that
knowledge to figure out new words
in text where there are no context
clues and in analogies when they
don’t know the meanings of some of
the choices.
Apply Your Knowledge
Can you figure out what this word means?
pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
MABARRETT@Rochester.K12.MN.US
Use your knowledge of prefixes and suffixes
to break down the word.
pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
pneumo – air, wind
ultra – beyond the normal
micro – small
scopic – to see
MABARRETT@Rochester.K12.MN.US
silico – hard stone
volcano – fire
coni – dust
osis -- disease
pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
This longest word in the dictionary is a
term for black lung disease.
MABARRETT@Rochester.K12.MN.US
Word Sorts (Affixes)
 Open Sorts
 Closed Sorts
 Timed Sorts
Standard 2--Communication
 Reader’s Theater—Martin Luther
King’s ”I Have A Dream”
Thesis or Main Point
Somebody
Wanted
But
So
Then
Person, Characters,
country
Motivation: The gist
of the issue; what
somebody is trying
to accomplish,
achieve, or acquire
The problem: what
is standing in the
way of success, the
conflict or opposition
How the problem is
solved
Resolution: the
ending or outcome,
what eventually
happened.
Example
Wanted
But
So
Then
Wanted to go
to the ball
But her
stepmother
wouldn’t let
her go
So her fairy
godmother
helped her
Then she went to the ball, married the
prince and lived happily ever after.
Somebody
Cinderella
“I Have A Dream” Speech
 Discussion Cards
1. Write a summary
2. Write a critique
3. Identify parallel structure
4. Identify repetition
5. Identify ways the speaker
engages the audience
 Paraphrasing Activity
Teamwork
Each group will
 Give itself a name
 Brainstorm 3 to 5 words that mean
teamwork
 Come up with definition of teamwork—in a
sentence or two what does team work
mean
 Come up with three guidelines for working
in groups which will help all groups succeed
 Make a poster with team’s name and
definition of teamwork.
Teamwork--Maze
 Volunteers
Just for being in the
audience today!
Strategies That Work
By
Stephanie Harvey & Anne
Goudvis
Choose a strategy from pages
vii-xiv for
sharing/presenting
Day 2
Eighth Grade Final Test in 1895
Remember when grandparents
and great-grandparents stated
that they only had an 8th grade
education? Well, check this out.
Could any of us have passed the
8th grade in 1895?
This is the eighth-grade final
exam from 1895 in Salina ,
Kansas , USA . It was taken from
the original document on file at
the Smokey Valley Genealogical
Society and Library in Salina ,
and reprinted by the Salina
Journal.
8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS-1895
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.
2. Name the parts of speech and define those that
have no modifications.
3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph
4. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give
principal parts of "lie”,"play," and "run."
5. Define case; illustrate each case.
6 What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks
of punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and
show therein that you understand the practical use of
the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time, 1 hour 15 minutes)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft.
wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth
at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the
necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50
per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find the cost of 6,720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days
at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16
ft. long at $20 per metre?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at
10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the
distance of which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a
Receipt
U. S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by
Columbus
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary
War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas .
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the
Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton ,
Bell , Lincoln , Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates:
1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.
Orthography (Time, one hour)
[Do we even know what this is??]
1.What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic,
orthography, etymology, syllabication
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph,
subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals
4 Give four substitutes for caret 'u.' (HUH?)
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two
exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a
word: bi, dis-mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and
name the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir,
odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight,
fane, fain, feign, vane , vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate
pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
Geography (Time, one hour)
1 What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in
Kansas ?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia , Odessa ,
Denver , Manitoba , Hecla , Yukon , St. Helena, Juan
Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco ..
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the
U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital
of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the
same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean
returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the
inclination of the earth.
Present your Strategy
Standard 3--Writing
RAFT Strategy
 Forces students to process information rather than
simply repeat facts.
 Encourages creative thinking and motivates
students to reflect in unusual ways about concepts
they have read.
 Forces students to process information, rather than
merely regurgitate factual answers to questions.
 Uses the powerful ties between reading and writing
to assist student understanding of content area
text.
 Allows both teachers and students to take a more
creative approach to reviewing and assessing
understanding of subject matter.
RAFT Strategy
Role
Audience
Format
Topic
What is the role
of the writer?
Who will be
reading this
writing?
What is the best Who or what is
way to present
this writing
this writing?
about?
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Role
Audience
Format
Topic
Mechanic
Teenager
Instructions
How to change
a tire
Cigarette
Human Heart
Poem
Effects of
smoking on
cardiac system
Apostrophe
Students
Open letter
Complaint
about its misuse
Lawyer in “The
Bet”
self
Diary entry
Days in solitary
confinement
Teacher
School board
Persuasive
memo
Why there
should be a
dress code
Create sample prompts using the RAFT
Standard 4--Research
 Grab bag—Primary or Secondary
Source?
Primary source—Physical evidence
or eyewitness testimony
Secondary source—Lawyer’s final
summation
 Validity of Sources
Computer Activities
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Visit State Website
Collaborative Writing (Paper Plates)
Editing
Citation Machine
 Roll-A-Question (Videos)
 Mind Benders (Using logic and
reasoning)
Bloom’s Taxonomy
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Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analysing
Evaluating
Creating
Two Stars and a Wish
Day 3
 Two Stars and a Wish
 Best Practices
More or Less Sorts
Standard 6—Informational Text
5 W’s & H
 Who
 What
 When
 Where
 How
 Why
Square fruit stuns Japanese shoppers
(BBC News website, June 15, 2001)
Japan has again shown off one of its
greatest innovations – square
watermelons. For years consumers
struggled to fit the large round fruit in
their refrigerators. And then there was
the problem of trying to cut the fruit when
it kept rolling around. But 20 years ago a
forward-thinking farmer on Japan’s southwestern island of Shikoku solved the
problem. The farmer, from Zentsuji in
Kagawa prefecture, came up with the idea
of making a cube-shaped watermelon
which could easily be packed and stored.
To make it happen, farmers grew the
melons in glass boxes and the fruit
then naturally assumed the same
shape. Today the cuboid watermelons
are hand-picked and shipped all over
Japan. But the fruit on sale in a
selection of department stores and
upmarket supermarkets, appeals
mainly to the wealthy and fashionconscious of Tokyo and Osaka, Japan’s
two major cities.
Each melon sells for 10,000 yen,
equivalent to about $83. It is almost
double, or even triple, that of a
normal watermelon. “I can’t buy it, it
is too expensive,” said a woman
browsing at a department store in the
southern city of Takamatsu.
 Write a summary of the article using
the information on your hand.
 Condense the summary to 10 or less
words.
Walter Stuka
Gibsonville, NC
Tennessee Study Partner Program
Emory Register
Informational Text
 Preview Checklist
 T-Chart
Making Inferences
 A mother put this sign on her teenaged son’s door:
Enter at your own risk. An unknown bacteria is said
to be growing in this room.
 In the football team’s locker room: I am your coach,
not your mother.
 Bumper sticker on a highway patrolman’s car:
Don’t slow down on my account. But if you don’t, it
will probably hurt your account.
 Bumper sticker on a teenager’s car:
A floorboard? There’s carpet on the floorboard?
 At the library: Check it out—really!
Standard 7-Media
Standard 8--Literature
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Playing With Words
Magic Squares
Dominoes
Find Someone Who Knows
Character Map
 “My Father is a Simple Man”
THOUGHTS
______________________________
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WORDS
______________________________
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ACTIONS
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Character’s
Name
WHAT OTHER CHARACTERS SAY ABOUT HIM OR HER
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APPEARANCE
______________________________
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Allusions
Three categories
Historical
Literary
Classical
To what do these refer?
 You need Spiderman to help you out of this
mess.
 There’s no place like home.
 Make my day.
 Honest Abe
 If it rains much more, we will need an ark.
 Jim and Susan are a pair of star-crossed
lovers.
More…
 For many immigrants America is the
Promised Land.
 He has caused the anger of Zeus.
 Going to the doctor was a trip to Hades.
 Don’t be afraid! There’s nothing to fear but
fear itself.
 The mighty Devil struck out.
 When I fell in love, it was the best of times;
it was the worst of time.
Do you Recognize the allusion?
Group Meeting
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Q/A
Video
Celebration
Certificates
Thanks for
being such a
class act!
Good luck, and
may the force be
with you!