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NYCDOE Magnet Program District 25 & 28
JHS185 Magnet School
Grade 6
Essential Question: Why is it important for us to be informed
about our built environment?
Suggested Time Frame: 5-6 weeks
Magnet Theme: Architecture
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Stage 1- Desired Results
Standards-Based Learning Goals:
E1c Read and comprehend informational materials.
E1edemonstrate familiarity with a variety of functional documents.
E2a Produce a report of information
E3a Participate in one to one conferences with the teacher
E3b Participate in Group meetings
E4 Conventions, Grammar, and Usage of the English Language
E5b Produce work in at least one genre that follows the conventions of the genre
Concepts
Big Ideas for this Unit: Magnet School Theme: Architecture
-Information
-proof
-environments Relevant/Connected Big Idea:
-connections Exploring different aspects of the Architecture curriculum to
incorporate into newspaper articles to produce a class wide
newspaper
Enduring Understandings: Overarching Essential Question(s):
Being informed helps people have a better Why is it important for us to be informed about our built
understanding of the world around them. environment?
Why do we need the built environment in our society?
Content and Skills
Content (nouns) Skills (verbs)
Students will know… Students will be able to……
-The 5 W’s -Identify the 5 W’s in newspaper articles
-Main Idea Supporting Detailing -Identify the Main Idea and supporting details in articles
-Relevant and irrelevant information -Identify relevant and irrelevant information in texts
-Facts and opinions -Identify Fact and Opinions in texts
-Context clues -Use different context clues to broaden vocabulary skills
-Headlines and bylines -Use different strategies to figure out context clues
-Format of a newspaper -Use
-the different sections of a newspaper
-editorials
-advice
-Categorizing their articles
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Stage 2- Summative Assessment Evidence
If students understand, know and are able to do the items in Stage 1, they should be able to show their
understanding by completing an authentic task found in the world beyond the classroom.
Design the Culminating/Summative Project:
G- (goal)
Students will demonstrate their understanding of newspaper articles and their understanding of architectural sites, and
architects by writing an article that shows the importance of understanding.
R- (role)
Students will become newspaper reporters who are researching and writing about different architects, buildings,
bridges and parks.
A- (audience)
Future architecture students that will need to be introduced to these important figures and structures
S- (situation)
Students are to write articles on the different aspects of the built environment and how they affect people’s every day
lives.
P- (purpose and product)
Students will produce a newspaper that will teach future students of architecture about the need and importance of
bridges, structures and parks .
S- (standards for performance)
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Culminating Project
A newspaper is needed to be included in the packet that recruiters are using to get fifth graders to come to
our school to understand the importance of studying architecture next year as sixth graders.
Task 1
You will choose one of the three architectural topics (architect, park, structure or bridge) and write a
newspaper article based on that topic and the function of the structure in our society. You will include the 5
W’s, facts, and many supporting details in your article and the importance of these structures in our society.
Task 2
Once your article is written and edited to perfection it will be your responsibility to format your article into
the class newspaper.
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Model of Culminating Project
The Park
In the mid nineteenth century Frederick Law
Olmstead was appointed the parks
superintendent and Calvert Vaux was appointed
the Architect on New York’s newest project
Central Park. Both Men had a vast background
in designing recreation areas. Olmstead was a
landscape designer and a founder of American
landscape architecture. Besides designing Central
Park he also designed Prospect Park just across
the bridge in Brooklyn and many other well
known urban Parks. Calvert Vaux was a
landscape designer as well as a park developer.
He teamed up with Olmstead on many other
projects including Prospect Park. He also
contributed on the landscape design for the
whitehouse.
The area now known as Central Park was located
in the center of the island of manhattan. It is the
are between 59th street and 106th street, and 5th
and 8th avenues. It was built between the years of
1857 and 1870. The project was completed in
stages.
The area prior to becoming the park it is today
was an irregular terrain of swamps and rocky
bluffs that was uninhabitable by architectural
standards. The project to make it a public
recreation area took many years and over 20,000
workers to complete the park. It was one of the
nineteenth centuries massive public works
projects.
The park was built as a recreational area for the
rich in the surrounding areas. Since its original
completion the park has been refurbished a
couple of times, to meet the needs of the current
time. Today the park is visited by over 5 million
people annually.
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Rubric For Culminating Project
CATEGORY 4 3 2 1
Who, What, When, All articles adequately address 90-99% of the articles adequately 75-89% of the articles adequately Less than 75% of the articles
Where & How the 5 W's (who, what, when, address the 5 W's (who, what, address the 5 W's (who, what, adequately address the 5 W's
where and how). when, where and how). when, where and how). (who, what, when, where, and
how).
Supporting Details The details in the articles are The details in the articles are clear The details in the articles are clear The details in more than 25%
clear, effective, and vivid 80- and pertinent 90-100% of the time. and pertinent 75-89% of the time. of the articles are neither clear
100% of the time. nor pertinent.
Interest The article contains many The article contains details about The article contains few details The article contains no details
details about the importance the importance and function of the about the importance and function about the importance and
and function of the structure in structure in our society. of the structure in our society.. function of the structure in our
our society. society.
Spelling and No spelling or grammar errors No more than a couple of spelling No more than 3 spelling or Several spelling or grammar
Proofreading remain after one or more or grammar errors remain after one grammar errors remain after one or errors remain in the final copy
people (in addition to the or more people (in addition to the more people (in addition to the of the newspaper.
typist) read and correct the typist) read and correct the typist) read and correct the
newspaper. newspaper. newspaper.
Requirements All of the required content was Almost all the required content was At least 75% of the required Less than 75% of the required
present. present. content was present. content was present.
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Unit Essential Question:
Knowledge
Skills Possible Benchmarks,
Big Ideas of Important
What should Connection to Topical Scaffolding
the mini-unit/ content to Mini-Unit
Mini-Unit Title students be Magnet Essential/ Towards
Concept know about Assessment
able to do? Theme Focus Culminating
Statement mini-unit
(verbs) Questions Project
(nouns)
Identify the 5
W’s in
newspaper
articles
-Identify the
Main Idea and
supporting
Students will
The 5 W’s details in articles
understand The
-Main Idea -Identify How do the 5 Students will be
5 W’s,
Supporting relevant and W’s help given an article
Main Idea and
Information Detailing irrelevant construct an and asked to
Architecture of supporting
Examining -proof -Relevant and information in article? identify the 5
a newspaper Details, relevant
newspaper -environments irrelevant texts W’s, Main Idea
article:Looking and irrelevant
articles -connections information -Identify Fact Is there and supporting
for 5 W’s information,
-Facts and and Opinions in relevant and details, relevant
facts and
opinions texts irrelevant and irrelevant opinions and
-Context clues -Use different architecture? information. context clues
context clues to
broaden
vocabulary skills
-Use different
strategies to
figure out
context clues
Information The 5 W’s -Use the 5 W’s Writing an Why are Based on a Students will
-proof -Main Idea in newspaper article that opinions not recent current produce a
Writing -environments Supporting articles shows their related to the event students newspaper
newspaper -connections Detailing Create a main understanding construction of will write a article about
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articles -Relevant and idea and of the an article? newspaper one of the
irrelevant supporting construction of article architectural
information details in articles a newspaper structures they
-Facts and -Identify article and how chose which
opinions relevant and their structure addresses the
-Context clues irrelevant is important to idea of its
information in society. function in
texts society.
-Identify Fact
and Opinions in
texts
-Use different
context clues to
broaden
vocabulary skills
-Use different
strategies to
figure out
context clues
-Understand
the differences
between Students will
bylines and have produced
-Headlines and
headlines Formatting a How is the plan a newspaper
bylines
Information -Identify the newspaper that or format of a that reflects
Constructing -Format of a
-proof different shows their newspaper the The completion their
and newspaper
-environments sections of a understanding same as the of the knowledge of
formatting a -the different
-connections newspaper of the plan of your newspaper the structure
newspaper sections of a
newspaper -Categorize construction of structure you they chose and
their own a newspaper. wrote about? the structure
articles into the and or format
different of a newspaper
sections of the
article
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Weekly Grid
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
AIM: Can you find the 5 W's in Can you use the five Do you know how to find What does relevant and What is the difference
magazine/newspaper W's to write a summary the main idea of a irrelevant mean? between fact and
articles? of an article? passage? opinion?
DO NOW: Make a list of the 5 W's. Find an article in the What do you think the State something that Look over the three
magazine on your desk main idea was of the happened to you following statements
that you are interested article we read yesterday that was and decide if they are
in. Start reading. yesterday? important. facts or opinions:
__Cats are the best pet to
have.
__Niagra Falls are
located in the United
States and Canada.
__Reading is a better
way to spend time than
watching TV.
ACTIVITY: In your groups you will Read an article from the Using Graphic organizer Look through the article Make a list of fact and
read the article magazine you chose and identify the three that was assigned and opinions in your own
find the five W’s. supporting details and underline the irrelevant life.
As a group you will find Main Idea of an article you information.
the 5 W's of the article Using the 5 W’s write a chose.
summary.
ASSESSMENT: Teacher Observation EXIT SLIP: Teacher observation Look at copied article and Identify all of the
Write your summary underline relevant opinions in the article I
based on the article you information handed out.
read independently and
completed chart.
HW: Find a newspaper article Find a newspaper article Find a newspaper article Find a newspaper article Find a newspaper article
and identify the 5 W's of and identify the 5 W's of and identify the main idea and identify relevant and and write a summary
that article. that article of that article. If needed irrelevant information using the 5 W’s.
use the graphic organizer using two different
we worked on in class. highlighters.
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Weekly Grid
MONDAY TUESDAY (MINI UNIT 2) WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
AIM: How can context clues help How can we choose a How do we take notes on Why is it important to write How can we organize
us find the meaning of topic for us to write an reputable websites to find articles using the 5 W’s? the information in our
words? article about? relevant information about newspaper articles?
our topics?
DO NOW: Is there a word in the article Choose one of the Explain how you would Using the information you Continue writing the
titled________________ find a following three topics normally take notes to write found start completing the essay
word that you are unsure of that you are interested in: up research or an article. five W’s
the meaning. structure, park or bridge?
ACTIVITY: Focusing on context clues Looking for information Using a graphic organizer to Students outlining and Students will continue
about the structure they find information on their starting to write their 5 writing their stories
chose. structures. paragraph essays
ASSESSMENT: Teacher observations EXIT SLIP: What Teacher Observation Teacher Observation Teacher Observation
structure did you choose?
HW: Choose an article from a Continue looking for Continue looking for Continue looking for Continue looking for
newspaper that has words information that is information that is relevant to information that is relevant information that is
that you are unsure of the relevant to your article your article about the to your article about the relevant to your article
meaning. Use context clues about the structure you structure you chose. structure you chose. about the structure you
consultant to help you figure chose. chose.
out the meaning of the word.
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Unit Resources
Websites:
Parks:
http://nysparks.state.ny.us/
http://www.nycgovparks.org/
http://www.nps.gov/index.htm
Architects
http://architect.architecture.sk/
Bridges
http://architecture.about.com/od/famousbridges/Famous_Bridges.htm
Structures
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings.html
Teacher Materials:
Graphic Organizers
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