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Unit Three: Multicultural Literature
Unit Plan and Description

Monday, 3/2:
Writing Sequence due 2/28 CIP Task 2 due Wednesday 3/4 Get MC LIT text Bring print out of compiled peer edit. Bring what you need to finish your reflection. Bring the assessment rubric from your placement.
 * Due:**

30 minutes final reflection (I will provide prompts in class.) Talk Time: Debriefing the WS planning experience. Grammar instruction. CIP 2. Introduce MC Lit Unit.
 * In-Class:**

CIP Task: Investigation 2 due before class Wednesday UNLESS OTHERWISE APPROVED BY KELLY Read Appleman Intro, Ch. 1, Ch. 2, peruse Ch. 8 (for planning ideas) Get MC text Wiki post due Friday by 5 pm Post WS final draft
 * To Do:**

Wednesday, 3/4:
CIP Task: Investigation 2
 * Due:**

Part I: Small Group CIP discussion Part II: Jigsaw/mixed groups
 * In class:**
 * What did you learn in Task 2?
 * Where are you headed for Task 3?
 * How can you pool your resources? How are your individual investigations useful for one another?
 * Fill other in on what you are doing/learning?
 * Think recursively: As you look back at you original CIP question and the purpose for your inquiry, how are your investigations informing/changing/reinforcing the ideas you started with?
 * What does this mean for Task 3 and 4?

Multimedia activity: What does it mean to be "multicultural"?

Appleman: What does it mean to plan literature instruction/discussion? How does Appleman frame what it means to be "critical"?

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 * To Do:**

Monday 3/16:
MC lit reading Have a GREAT spring break!!! Read unit plan and assessment description posted at top of this page. Any Appleman you need to catch up on.
 * Due:**

30 minutes, discuss readings above.
 * In Class:**
 * How might these readings informs our thinking about planning/teaching/MC lit/lit circles?

30 minutes, collaborative lit circle/PLC work: Assign lit circle/PLC roles; identify work to be done; begin forming unit overview.
 * Librarian/Secretary: Archive
 * Scrapper: Resource research
 * Dreamer: Textual/insights (MC text connections to scholarly texts)
 * Translater: Lesson planner
 * Task Master: Keeps everyone accountable.

30 minutes, discuss and Q/A.
 * Prepare a question for your colleagues to help you plan your unit.

20 minutes, collaborative lit circle/PLC work.

Lit Circle/PLC tasks MC text McCann et al Chs. 11-12
 * To Do:**

Wednesday 3/18:
Lit Circle/PLC tasks: Decide on and post today's notes to a group forum before class Wednesday. MC text McCann et al Chs. 11-12
 * Due:**

30 minutes, discuss readings 30 minutes, collaborative lit circle/PLC work 30 minutes, discuss and Q/A 20 minutes, collaborative lit circle/PLC work
 * In Class:**
 * 2-3 thematic highlights of chapters 11 and 12: what do you take away from the reading?
 * whose scholarship is available to you to draw from as you plan to teach literature instruction?
 * Name the scholarly conversations that your planning engages: Where do your ideas come from? Who has inspired you to plan, write, teach in these ways? What other scholarship would be useful for you to draw from? How might your colleagues help you identify these resources?
 * Identify a professional text that you want to read and review as a part of your multicultural lit mini-unit planning. Which texts, whose scholarship best integrates the work you are attempting with this mini-unit planning?

Lit Circle/PLC tasks MC text McCann et al Chs. 7 and 8 Identify professional text your group will review in connection with your mini-unit planning. Complete a draft of your unit overview for Monday.
 * To Do:**

Monday 3/23:
Lit Circle/PLC tasks MC text McCann et al Chs. 7 and 8 Identify professional text your group will review in connection with your mini-unit planning. Complete a draft of your unit overview for Monday.
 * Due:**

30 minutes, discuss readings 30 minutes, collaborative lit circle/PLC work 20 minutes, discuss and Q/A 20 minutes, collaborative lit circle/PLC work 10 minutes, discuss what is due Monday
 * In Class:**
 * revisiting dialogic instruction
 * peer revision of unit overview draft
 * integrating dialogic instruction
 * connecting professional texts to unit planning: successes and challenges
 * 10 minute presentation
 * genre: "draft discussion" with colleagues at a faculty meeting
 * audience: a report from the curriculum PLC
 * **To prepare: 1 page handout highlighting key points in your mini-unit plan, and how the professional literature helps you to do this:**
 * **Guiding question to frame your creation of the handout:** **How are you making sense of the relationship between the professional lit you use to develop this unit and the planning you are doing?**
 * **What are your texts?**
 * **How is this text informing your unit planning?**
 * **What makes it useful?**
 * **Why is it a good resource for others?**
 * **Prepare 2-3 questions that the class can best help you address as you shore up your unit planning?**

CIP Task: Investigation 3 Lit Circle/PLC tasks MC text Smagorinsky Ch. 3 and McCann et al Ch. 6
 * To Do:**

Wednesday 3/25:
CIP Task: Investigation 3 Lit Circle/PLC tasks MC text Smagorinsky Ch. 3 and McCann et al Ch. 6
 * Due**:

30 minutes, Trudy visits with Lansing placement info break 30 minutes, discuss CIP Task III 50 minutes, collaborative lit circle/PLC work
 * In Class:**
 * //Announcement: Updated assignment description template uploaded at top of this page!//**

Prep presentations Daily planning
 * To Do:**

Monday 3/30:
Prep presentations Professional text review
 * Due:**

Three groups: 10 minute presentation, followed by 5 minute discussion, Q/A PLC/Lit group workshop
 * In Class:**

Revise/edit unit plans wiki posts
 * To Do:**

Wednesday 4/1:

 * Due:**

Three groups: 10 minute presentation, followed by 5 minute discussion, Q/A PLC/Lit group workshop
 * In Class:**

MC mini-unit (1 copy per group) DUE SATURDAY BRING ALL CIP STUFF FOR MONDAY!!! Prepare to do some reflective writing.**
 * To Do: