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msherry@bloomu.edu Work:(570)389-4975 Cell: (734)255-3241 Office: BCH 117B Office Hours: Th/F 3:30-5pm
 * [[image:wordle1.JPG width="304" height="299"]] || Michael Sherry

Course meets T, Th 2:00-3:15pm BCH 103 || media type="custom" key="6736207" || =**Meeting Dates**=

08/31 | 09/02 | 09/07 | 09/09 | 09/16 | 09/21 | 09/24 | 09/28 | 09/30 | 10/05 | 10/07 | 10/12 | 10/14 | 10/19 | 10/21 | 10/26 | 10/28 | 11/02 | 11/04 | 11/09 | 11/11 | 11/16 | 11/18 | 11/23 | 11/25 | 11/30 | 12/02 | 12/07 | 12/09 | 12/14 | 12/16 |

The schedule below is subject to change; please be understanding
Getting to know each other Syllabi Assignments || Class expectations ||
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 * 08/31 || //Introductions/Course overview//

Course tools [|Sign up on Viddler] wiki how-to viddler how-to || Finish wiki personal page ||
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 * 09/02 || //Introductions//

Groupwork: Lesson Plan Genre Study || Unit plan genre study ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/07 || //Establishing expectations//

Groupwork: Unit Plan Genre Study || Propose collaborative unit texts w/rationales ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/09 || //What makes a good unit plan?//

Collaborative unit plan rationale || Teaching English Through Principled Practice (TETPP) Ch. 2  Bridging English (BE) Ch. 1
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/14 || //Why teach what?//

Please post again to [|Collaborative Unit discussion forum]: What should we choose as the focus of our collaborative unit, and why? ||

Rationales-->Guiding Questions || TETPP ch. 4-5 Unit plan rationale and guiding questions + feedback: Please post your Individual Unit Plan Rationale and Guiding Questions to your personal page; please respond to at least two colleagues' posts using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/16 || //What are the BIG questions?//

Questions-->Assessments || [|BE 13] (note: this is a long reading--will probably take you through 9/28; but possibly the most important thing you'll read this semester)
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/21 || //What is evidence of learning?//

Please post an idea for our collaborative unit summative assessment to the Collaborative Unit discussion forum for next class; explain how this assessment might align with the rationale and guiding question we've articulated. ||

Scaffolding daily plans Standards as inquiry || Unit plan assessment(s) + feedback ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/24 || //Objectives "in order to"//

Routines (discussion, vocab, grammar?) || TETPP 7-8 First group prepares plan ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 09/28 || //"What are we doing today?//"

Peer-response models for collaborative unit || 1-6 respond to plan  7-12 respond to enactment  13-18 relax ||
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 * 09/30 || //"What were you thinking?//"

<span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to enactment <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 relax <span class="wiki_link"> Second group prepares plan ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/05 || //Collaborative unit lesson 1// || <span class="wiki_link">1-6 respond to plan

Process Journal prompt: Response to Tuesday lesson Discussion http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=2073 Jigsaw: 1. Kinds and benefits (in English ed) of student journals: [|ERIC Digest]: 2. Responding to student journals: [|Edutopia] 3. Cross-curricular and social benefits of daily journaling: [|Education World]
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/07 || //Mike lesson//:
 * On student journals:**

[|Forum Theater]: Classroom management [|From Wong's //First Days of School//: Management Tips] || <span class="wiki_link">Second group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link"> 1-6 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to enactment
 * On classroom management:**

<span class="wiki_link">5 plans due 11/11 ||

<span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to enactment <span class="wiki_link"> Third group prepares plan ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/12 || //Collaborative unit lesson 2// || <span class="wiki_link">1-6 relax

Nominate topics? Objectives IN-case: Student arrives late Reading strategies Discussion strategies Revisit assessment/standards Give & Get || <span class="wiki_link">Third group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link"> 1-6 respond to enactment <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to plan
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/14 || //Mike lesson://

<span class="wiki_link">Post one resource on working with families ||

<span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> Fourth group prepares plan
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/19 || //Collaborative unit lesson 3// || <span class="wiki_link">1-6 respond to enactment

Meet in MCHS 2229 ||

Nominate topics? in MCHS 2229 Silent discussion Standards Webquest || <span class="wiki_link">Fourth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link"> 1-6 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to enactment <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 relax ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/21 || //Mike lesson//: Revisit goals/standards

<span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to enactment <span class="wiki_link"> 13-17 relax <span class="wiki_link"> Fifth group prepares plan ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/26 || //Collaborative unit lesson 4// || <span class="wiki_link">1-6 respond to plan

Nominate topics?
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 10/28 || //Mike lesson://

[|Standards revisited] [| "Phrasing"] || <span class="wiki_link">Fifth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link"> 1-6 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to enactment ||


 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/02 || //Collaborative unit lesson 5// || Suggest project/presentation rubric criteria

<span class="wiki_link">1-6 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to enactment

<span class="wiki_link">Sixth group prepares plan ||

Nominate topics?
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 * 11/04 || //Mike lesson://

Rubrics --for fulfilling requirements --for providing categories ([|six traits]) --for evaluating content

Designing assignments

Feedback || <span class="wiki_link">Sixth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link"> 1-6 respond to enactment <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to plan ||

<span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> Seventh group prepares plan
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/09 || //Collaborative unit lesson 6// || <span class="wiki_link">1-6 respond to enactment

<span class="wiki_link">Please post your ideas for project rubric criteria here <span class="wiki_link">Individual Unit plan: 5 plans due 11/11 <span class="wiki_link">Individual Unit plan: feedback to two colleagues due 11/16 ||

Nominate topics?
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/11 || //Mike lesson//: Revisit goals/standards

http://www.grommersoft.com/greatgatsby/ Rubric criteria here || <span class="wiki_link">Seventh group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link"> 1-6 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to enactment <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 relax

<span class="wiki_link">Individual Unit plan: feedback to two colleagues due 11/16 ||

<span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to enactment <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 relax <span class="wiki_link"> Eighth group prepares plan ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/16 || //Collaborative unit lesson 7// || <span class="wiki_link">1-6 respond to plan

Nominate topics? || <span class="wiki_link">Eighth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link"> 1-6 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to enactment ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/18 || //Mike lesson//: Revise summative assessment

//No class// || <span class="wiki_link">Eighth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link"> 1-6 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to enactment
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/23 || //Academic Friday://

<span class="wiki_link"> Individual unit plans due 11/30 ||


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 * 11/25 || Thanksgiving || <span class="wiki_link">Text ||

Group project time || <span class="wiki_link">Eighth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link"> 1-6 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 respond to plan <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to enactment
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 11/30 || UPLAN feedback examples

<span class="wiki_link"> Individual unit plans due ||

<span class="wiki_link">1-6 respond to enactment <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to enactment of 8, <span class="wiki_link">plan for 9 <span class="wiki_link"> Lesson sequence plans due 12/09 ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 12/02 || //Collaborative unit lesson 8// || Ninth group prepares plan


 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 12/07 || //Collaborative unit lesson 9//

Individual Unit Reflection Form || <span class="wiki_link">1-6 respond to enactment <span class="wiki_link"> 7-12 relax <span class="wiki_link"> 13-18 respond to enactment of 8, <span class="wiki_link">plan for 9 <span class="wiki_link">Lesson sequence plans due 12/09 <span class="wiki_link"> Summative assessment feedback due 12/14 ||

|| <span class="wiki_link">Lesson sequence plans due <span class="wiki_link">Summative assessment feedback due 12/14 ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 12/09 || //Providing feedback on student work//

<span class="wiki_link">What questions do you have about spring practica? ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * Finals week || See 12/16 || <span class="wiki_link">Summative assessment feedback due


 * **Date** (back to top) || **Topic/Plan** || **Assignments** ||
 * 12/16 || Discuss feedback on student work

Practicum prep: Lingering questions || <span class="wiki_link">Good luck with spring! ||