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Lesson 6

We will refine and revise our Section 1 Diagnostics to demonstrate how our understanding of a change agent expanded or changed after reading additional texts.

Lesson Goals

Reading and Knowledge

  • Analyze Relationships: How well do I recognize and interpret important relationships among key details and ideas within texts related to change agents?
  • Evaluate Information: How well do I evaluate the relevance and credibility of information, ideas, evidence, and reasoning presented in texts?
  • Organize Ideas: How well do I sequence and group sentences and paragraphs and use devices, techniques, descriptions, reasoning, evidence, and visual elements to establish coherent, logical, and well-developed explanations?

Writing

  • Revise and Refine: How well do I revisit, refine, and revise my understanding, knowledge, and work based on discussions with others and feedback and review by myself and others?
  • Gather and Organize Evidence: How well do I gather and organize relevant and sufficient evidence to demonstrate an understanding of texts and topics, support claims, and develop ideas?
  • Develop Ideas: How well do I sequence and group sentences and paragraphs and use devices, techniques, descriptions, reasoning, evidence, and visual elements to establish coherent, logical, and well-developed narratives, explanations, and arguments?

Texts

Core

  • Digital Access
    • “How to Start a Movement,” Derek Sivers, TED.com, 2010
    • “The Danger of Silence,” Clint Smith, TED.com, 2015
  • Unit Reader
    • Excerpt from The Prince, Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, Gutenberg.org, 1532
    • “Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961,” John F. Kennedy and Ted Sorensen, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, 1961
    • “Introduction,” excerpt from The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2000

Materials

Tools

Question Sets

Editable Google Docs

Activity 1: Write

We will begin the revision process of our multiparagraph response from the section 1 diagnostic.

Step 1

You will refine and revise your Section 1 Diagnostic to demonstrate how your individual understanding of change agents has expanded and changed after reading additional texts. Your new draft should reflect a more sophisticated understanding of the topic, based on the new information you have gleaned from researching with your research team. You will revise your first Section Diagnostic by refining your claims, adding new information, omitting irrelevant information, and expanding your definition of a change agent.

Step 2

Use your Learning Log, Vocabulary Journal, Mentor Sentence Journal, your annotated texts, and your first multiparagraph response draft as sources of evidence for your writing. Your new draft should reflect a more sophisticated understanding of the topic based on the new information you gleaned from researching.

Use the following questions from the prompt to guide your revisions:

  1. How has your thinking changed since you first wrote your Section 1 Diagnostic?

  2. How can your thinking be reflected in your revisions?

  3. Are your organization and language skills effective for your task and audience?

  4. What additional support do you need to add in? How will you add it in?

  5. Do you need to omit anything that does not add value to yourwriting?

Activity 2: Write – Discuss

We will peer edit our revised multiparagraph responses.

Switch papers with a peer review partner. Read your partner’s paper and provide comments and suggestions in the margin to improve their response. Remember, comments should be constructive in nature.

Activity 3: Write

We will write and submit final drafts of our multiparagraph responses.

Use your peer feedback to make final revisions to your draft. Submit your final draft to your teacher.

Activity 4: Read – Write

We will assess how prepared we are for the Culminating Task.

Step 1

Take out your Culminating Task Progress Tracker. Think about all that you have learned and accomplished during this unit. Evaluate your skills and knowledge, and respond to the following questions:

  1. How prepared are you to succeed on the Culminating Task?

  2. What do you need to learn to succeed on the Culminating Task?

Step 2

Review the Central Question of the unit:

Who changes the world?

Use the following questions to guide a discussion with a partner or small group:

  1. What new knowledge do you have in relation to the Central Question?

  2. What are you still curious about in relation to the Central Question?

  3. What is the relationship between the question and the texts you have read so far? How do the texts shed light on the question? How does the question help you understand the texts?

  4. How has your response to the question evolved, deepened, or changed?

In your Learning Log, write your response to Question 2. You will return to this response in later lessons to examine how your understanding of the Central Question has evolved.