Lesson PLan
Integration
Context:
Students will use Prezi to create a non-linear presentation about a poem of their choosing (from an approved list). The presentation should include slides about the poet’s early life, their adult life, any awards or recognition they have received, one poem and one quote. The quote must be in image form (like a meme/graphic style).
Students should be ready to summarize the poem for their classmates. The presentations should have plenty of visuals, including photos of the poet if available, artwork inspired by the poem, maps, videos or sound clips.
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
ISTE Standards for Teachers 2.A:
Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
ISTE Standards for Teachers 2.B:
Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.
Rationale:
Students will be using Prezi to build a presentation of an approved list of poems, plus biographical information on the poet. This allows them to be independent when researching and understanding their own poem.
Using Prezi enhances other methods of presenting, because students can use their Chromebooks to build the individual presentations during class (improved from the traditional physical presentation, with posters and cutouts). This is also an improvement on Powerpoint, because it allows them to include visuals, sound, and video in a nonlinear fashion.
For example, they could include a slide with the poem “Fulfillment” by Langston Hughes, which links back to another slide on literary devices, and then back to the poem, for further analysis.
This technology helps to adapt the traditional research-based project for students to incorporate digital tools and resources to help promote their learning and creativity (thus supporting ISTE Standard 2.A).
It also creates a technology-rich environment for students to pursue their curiosities about poetry, and gives them the opportunity to teach to their classmates, which helps with reading comprehension (thus supporting ISTE Standard 2.B).
Teaching your tool:
Day 1:
First, students will watch an instructional screencast on how to use Prezi. Teachers will show the video on the overhead projector. Afterward, each student will choose a poem from the approved list. The list will be displayed on the projector, and the teacher will write each student’s name next to the poem they have chosen. Example from the approved list:
The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
Fulfillment, Langston Hughes
Mending Wall, Robert Frost
Otherwise, Jane Kenyon
Hate Poem, Julie Sheehan
Mentor, Thomas Murphy
Wheels, Jim Daniels
London, William Blake
Then students will break away to begin research using their Chromebooks.
Day 2:
Research Day:
Students will spend the entire 55 minutes of class time reading their poem, researching the poet, collecting images and quotes into a file on their Chromebooks and just generally gathering information and research for their presentation.
Day 3:
Prezi Day:
By this time, students should have collected most of their research and information to use in their Prezi. At the start of class, teachers will show an instructional re-cap of the Prezi screencast, with screenshots that show the important tools on Prezi, such as beginning a presentation, saving, editing, adding a new bracket, changing themes, etc... The review of how to use Prezi should take about 10 minutes, and students will spend the rest of their class time building their individual Prezis.
Day 4: Students present their poems to the rest of the class.
Day 5: Students present their poems to the rest of the class.
Supports:
Students will have access to a video screencast of a Prezi instructional video. This screencast will describe how to create a Prezi, how to choose a layout design, how to add images, text, and video, and how to save the Prezi and how to share it. This screencast is available at https://youtu.be/Fh7zfbNyf5M.
They will also have access to the instructional recap: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Prezi.
Submission:
Students will submit their Prezis to the teacher by sending the link to their teacher’s email account. The teacher will pull up the link to the assignment (on the projector) when it is time for each group’s presentation.
Students will use Prezi to create a non-linear presentation about a poem of their choosing (from an approved list). The presentation should include slides about the poet’s early life, their adult life, any awards or recognition they have received, one poem and one quote. The quote must be in image form (like a meme/graphic style).
Students should be ready to summarize the poem for their classmates. The presentations should have plenty of visuals, including photos of the poet if available, artwork inspired by the poem, maps, videos or sound clips.
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
ISTE Standards for Teachers 2.A:
Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
ISTE Standards for Teachers 2.B:
Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.
Rationale:
Students will be using Prezi to build a presentation of an approved list of poems, plus biographical information on the poet. This allows them to be independent when researching and understanding their own poem.
Using Prezi enhances other methods of presenting, because students can use their Chromebooks to build the individual presentations during class (improved from the traditional physical presentation, with posters and cutouts). This is also an improvement on Powerpoint, because it allows them to include visuals, sound, and video in a nonlinear fashion.
For example, they could include a slide with the poem “Fulfillment” by Langston Hughes, which links back to another slide on literary devices, and then back to the poem, for further analysis.
This technology helps to adapt the traditional research-based project for students to incorporate digital tools and resources to help promote their learning and creativity (thus supporting ISTE Standard 2.A).
It also creates a technology-rich environment for students to pursue their curiosities about poetry, and gives them the opportunity to teach to their classmates, which helps with reading comprehension (thus supporting ISTE Standard 2.B).
Teaching your tool:
Day 1:
First, students will watch an instructional screencast on how to use Prezi. Teachers will show the video on the overhead projector. Afterward, each student will choose a poem from the approved list. The list will be displayed on the projector, and the teacher will write each student’s name next to the poem they have chosen. Example from the approved list:
The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
Fulfillment, Langston Hughes
Mending Wall, Robert Frost
Otherwise, Jane Kenyon
Hate Poem, Julie Sheehan
Mentor, Thomas Murphy
Wheels, Jim Daniels
London, William Blake
Then students will break away to begin research using their Chromebooks.
Day 2:
Research Day:
Students will spend the entire 55 minutes of class time reading their poem, researching the poet, collecting images and quotes into a file on their Chromebooks and just generally gathering information and research for their presentation.
Day 3:
Prezi Day:
By this time, students should have collected most of their research and information to use in their Prezi. At the start of class, teachers will show an instructional re-cap of the Prezi screencast, with screenshots that show the important tools on Prezi, such as beginning a presentation, saving, editing, adding a new bracket, changing themes, etc... The review of how to use Prezi should take about 10 minutes, and students will spend the rest of their class time building their individual Prezis.
Day 4: Students present their poems to the rest of the class.
Day 5: Students present their poems to the rest of the class.
Supports:
Students will have access to a video screencast of a Prezi instructional video. This screencast will describe how to create a Prezi, how to choose a layout design, how to add images, text, and video, and how to save the Prezi and how to share it. This screencast is available at https://youtu.be/Fh7zfbNyf5M.
They will also have access to the instructional recap: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Prezi.
Submission:
Students will submit their Prezis to the teacher by sending the link to their teacher’s email account. The teacher will pull up the link to the assignment (on the projector) when it is time for each group’s presentation.
Reflection:
This assignment was key in helping me think about ways to integrate technology in my classroom in the future. I was able to think not only about how to use the technology, but also how to explain and teach the process of the technology. It's so important to think about if the technology enhances learning and if it improves upon the old ways of doing things. During this assignment, I thought about how students could access information more easily and learn more readily during their lessons, and using Prezi is an easy way to keep students engaged in their learning experience.
Standards:
ISTE Standard5.C: Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.
This assignment was key in helping me think about ways to integrate technology in my classroom in the future. I was able to think not only about how to use the technology, but also how to explain and teach the process of the technology. It's so important to think about if the technology enhances learning and if it improves upon the old ways of doing things. During this assignment, I thought about how students could access information more easily and learn more readily during their lessons, and using Prezi is an easy way to keep students engaged in their learning experience.
Standards:
ISTE Standard5.C: Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.