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msherry@bloomu.edu Work:(570)389-4975 Cell: (734)255-3241 Office: BCH 106A Office Hours: M,W,F 10-noon Course meets T, Th 3:30-4:45pm MCHS 1148 || media type="custom" key="10260001" || =**Meeting Dates**=
 * [[image:tcss11/wordle1.JPG width="304" height="299"]] || Michael Sherry

08/30 | 09/01 | 09/06 | 09/08 | 09/13 | 09/15 | 09/20| 09/22 | 09/27 | 09/29 | 10/04 | 10/06 | 10/11 | 10/13 | 10/18 | 10/20 | 10/25 | 10/27 | 11/01 | 11/03 | 11/08 | 11/10 | 11/15 | 11/17 | 11/22 | 11/24 | 11/29 | 12/01 | 12/06 | 12/08 | Finals week |

The schedule below is subject to change; please be understanding
Getting to know each other Syllabi Assignments || Reread syllabus, assignments and note questions ||
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 * 08/30 || //Introductions/Course overview//

Course tools [|Sign up on Viddler] wiki how-to Viddler how-to http://www.viddler.com/explore/msherry2011/videos/1/?secreturl=96261886 || Finish wiki personal page Unit plan genre study ||
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 * 09/01 || //Introductions//

Lesson Plan Genre Study Groupwork: Unit Plan Genre Study || Teaching English Through Principled Practice (TETPP) Ch. 2, 4-5 Bridging English (BE) Ch. 2 Please read and respond to my post on the [|Collaborative Unit discussion forum]: What Shakespeare play and related Young Adult novel should we choose as the focus of our collaborative unit, and why? ||
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 * 09/06 || //What makes a good unit plan?//

UPLAN rationale and guiding questions + feedback due 9/20: Please post your Individual Unit Plan Rationale and Guiding Questions to your personal page; please respond to the posts of the two colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. A short video providing some explanation of upcoming assignments media type="custom" key="10414660" ||
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 * 09/08 || //No class due to weather conditions// || [|BE 13](note: this is a long reading--will probably take you through 9/22; but possibly the most important thing you'll read this semester)

UPLAN rationale and guiding questions + feedback due 9/20: Please post your Individual Unit Plan Rationale and Guiding Questions to your personal page; please respond to the posts of the two colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. A short video providing some explanation of upcoming assignments media type="custom" key="10414660" ||
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 * 09/13 || No class due to weather conditions || [|BE 13](note: this is a long reading--will probably take you through 9/22; but possibly the most important thing you'll read this semester)

Chatroom || [|BE 13](note: this is a long reading--will probably take you through 9/22; but possibly the most important thing you'll read this semester) UPLAN rationale and guiding questions + feedback due 9/20: Please post your Individual Unit Plan Rationale and Guiding Questions to your personal page; please respond to the posts of the two colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. A short video providing some explanation of upcoming assignments media type="custom" key="10414660" ||
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 * 09/15 || No class due to weather conditions

Big Question, Unit Goals Book Talks [|Example 1] [|Example 2] [|Tips] [|Digital Booktalks] || Please post by noon to our Collaborative Unit Discussion Forum (http://tcss11.wikispaces.com/message/view/Collaborative+unit+plan/42839170) your suggestion and explanation for a "Big Question" that will provide a unifying focus for our unit. If you haven't already, please post your UPLAN rationale and Big Question to your personal page, and then respond to the two colleagues immediately below you on our personal pages list (http://tcss11.wikispaces.com/Personal+Pages). If you haven't already, please read [|BE 13](note: this is a long reading--will probably take you through 9/29; but possibly the most important thing you'll read this semester). This will inform our discussion of designing assessments for our Collaborative Unit and your Individual Units. ||
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 * 09/20 || Choosing a CUPLS text,

Big Question Goals (Standards) Assessments || First group prepares plan All but first group [|respond to plan] ||
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 * 09/22 || Planning collaborative unit:

Second group prepares plan Please post by Thursday noon to our Collaborative Unit Discussion Forum ( http://tcss11.wikispaces.com/message/view/Collaborative+unit+plan/43232680) your suggestion and explanation for a summative assessment (final assignment) that will show what students have learned about our goals for the unit. f you haven't already, please read [|BE 13](note: this is a long reading--will probably take you through 9/29; but possibly the most important thing you'll read this semester). This will inform our discussion of designing assessments for our Collaborative Unit and your Individual Units. If there are other topics you'd like to discuss (about issues that arose during the first CU lesson, or others) please add to nominate topics. ||
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 * 09/27 || Collaborative unit lesson 1 || <span class="wiki_link">Respond to enactment (model for how to do this? click here; go to the Lesson Video? [|click here])

Nominate topics? Process Assessment informs instruction, or "Learning from students how to teach them better" || <span class="wiki_link">Second group prepares plan All but second group [|respond to plan] <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN assessments + feedback due 10/04 <span class="wiki_link">Please post your Individual unit plan summative assessment(s) to your personal page <span class="wiki_link">(note: you should design the actual handout(s) you would give to students); <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. ||
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 * 09/29 || //Mike lesson//:

<span class="wiki_link">Third group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN 5 plans + feedback due 10/18: <span class="wiki_link">Please post five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. ||
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 * 10/04 || Collaborative unit lesson 2 || [|Respond to enactment]

Nominate topics? || Third group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">All but third group [|respond to plan] <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN 5 plans + feedback due 10/18: <span class="wiki_link">Please post five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. ||
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 * 10/06 || //Mike lesson://

<span class="wiki_link">Fourth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN 5 plans + feedback due 10/18: <span class="wiki_link">Please post five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. ||
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 * 10/11 || Collaborative unit lesson 3 || [|Respond to enactment]

Shakespeare's language http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR_HWMzgyc Facilitating Discussions <span class="wiki_link">[|All but fourth group respond to plan] <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN 5 plans + feedback due 10/18: <span class="wiki_link">Please post five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. To help you learn more about facilitating discussions, please click here; and follow the directions at the top of the page. ||
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 * 10/13 || //Mike lesson//: Nominate topics?
 * Stress
 * Verbs
 * Rhymes
 * Video
 * Kinds of questions
 * Revising the activity || Fourth group prepares plan

Links for 10/18: Vocabulary webquest links: [] []. Romeo and Juliet online: [] || [|Respond to enactment] <span class="wiki_link">Fifth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">Please post to our [|collaborative unit discussion forum] before Thursday at noon: When you last wrote a paper for a class, how did you know it was good? Using your answer(s) to this question, look at our final assessment on the Collaborative Unit page: <span class="wiki_link">**What criteria should our rubric for that assessment include?** <span class="wiki_link">Answers that won't cut it are "a thesis" or "a conclusion" (these aren't criteria that help distinguish an "A" from a "B"); you should also avoid "4 quotes=A, 3 quotes=B, etc." (since this isn't how you determine the worth of your own writing). Try instead to identify aspects like "Coherence" or "Relevance of support." Prepare to discuss in class. ||
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 * 10/18 || Collaborative unit lesson 4

Nominate topics? Assessment webquest || <span class="wiki_link">Fifth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">[|All but fifth group respond to plan] <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN 10 plans + feedback due 11/10: <span class="wiki_link">Please post another five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. <span class="wiki_link">Please visit the teacher portfolio on teaching Shakespeare here. Then post a comment to the discussion forum at the top of the page. ||
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 * 10/20 || //Mike lesson://

<span class="wiki_link">Sixth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN 10 plans + feedback due 11/10: <span class="wiki_link">Please post another five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. ||
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 * 10/25 || Collaborative unit lesson 5 || <span class="wiki_link">[|Respond to enactment]

Nominate topics? Nominated Topic: Managing time Nominated Topic: Differentiating instruction >> [|free sound effects] Designing CU rubric criteria Why this matters - ([|six traits]) Groupwork/Discussion || <span class="wiki_link">Sixth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">[|All but sixth group respond to plan] <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN 10 plans + feedback due 11/10: <span class="wiki_link">Please post another five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. ||
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 * 10/27 || //Mike lesson://
 * Taking the Multiple Intelligences survey
 * Applying multiple intelligences to how a character from R&J/SL has changed
 * Ed tech tools for these activities
 * Visual - [|VoiceThread], <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Comic Creators]
 * Kinesthetic - iMovie, MovieMaker, [|Xtranormal]
 * Musical -[| Myna],[| Audacity]
 * Use our work from last week to fill in your assigned section of the rubric

<span class="wiki_link">Seventh group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN 10 plans + feedback due 11/10: <span class="wiki_link">Please post another five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. ||
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 * 11/01 || Collaborative unit lesson 6 || [|Respond to enactment]

Nominate topics? Nominated topic: Revisit CU lesson schedule/ideas ALIGNing UPLAN and CU lessons (with examples) Designing CU rubric criteria <span class="wiki_link">[|All but seventh group respond to plan] <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN 10 plans + feedback due 11/10: <span class="wiki_link">Please post another five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. ||
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 * 11/03 || //Mike lesson//:
 * Use our work from last week to fill in your assigned section of the rubric || <span class="wiki_link">Seventh group prepares plan

<span class="wiki_link">Eighth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">UPLAN 10 plans + feedback due 11/10: <span class="wiki_link">Please post another five lessons from your Individual Unit Plan to your personal page; <span class="wiki_link">please make sure to incorporate comments on the previous step into your revision; <span class="wiki_link">please respond to the posts of the colleagues immediately below your name on our personal pages list using the discussion forum on each person's personal page. ||
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 * 11/08 || Collaborative unit lesson 7 || <span class="wiki_link">[|Respond to enactment]

Nominate topics? || <span class="wiki_link">Eighth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">[|All but eighth group respond to plan] Standards Webquest ||
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 * 11/10 || //Mike lesson//:

<span class="wiki_link">Ninth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">Individual unit plans due 11/22 ||
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 * 11/15 || Collaborative unit lesson 8 || [|Respond to enactment]

Nominate topics? || <span class="wiki_link">Ninth group prepares plan [|Respond to plan] <span class="wiki_link">Individual unit plans due 11/22 ||
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 * 11/17 || Mike lesson:

//No class// || Collaborative Unit Summative Assessment response due 12/01 by noon <span class="wiki_link">Make sure field experience journal is up to date <span class="wiki_link">Make sure to schedule field experience lesson <span class="wiki_link">Lesson sequence plans due 12/08 ||
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 * 11/22 || //Academic Friday://

<span class="wiki_link">Make sure field experience journal is up to date <span class="wiki_link">Make sure to schedule field experience lesson <span class="wiki_link">Lesson sequence plans due 12/08 ||
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 * 11/24 || Thanksgiving || Collaborative Unit Summative Assessment response due 12/01 by noon

//(Summative Assessment here)// || Collaborative Unit Summative Assessment response due 12/01 by noon [|Respond to enactment] Tenth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">Make sure field experience journal is up to date <span class="wiki_link">Make sure to schedule field experience lesson <span class="wiki_link">Lesson sequence plans due 12/08 ||
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 * 11/29 || //Collaborative unit lesson 9//

Nominate topics? //Giving feedback on student work// Prior Experiences (+/-)? [|K-W-L] CUFF assignment models Four Cs (Clear, Concise, Challenging, Caring) Practice Reflection || <span class="wiki_link">Tenth group prepares plan <span class="wiki_link">[|All but tenth group respond to plan] Summative assessment feedback due 12/06 Please post your comments on the compilation (and your reflection) to your personal page. Remember to change the document name! ||
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 * 12/01 || Mike lesson:
 * Preparing
 * Developing a system
 * Doing some together


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 * 12/06 || Collaborative Unit Lesson 10

Group Presentations || [|Respond to enactment] <span class="wiki_link">Lesson sequence plans due 12/08 Field Experience Journals and Lessons due 12/08 ||

Nominate topics? //Providing feedback on student// //work// || <span class="wiki_link">None ||
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 * 12/08 || //Mike lesson://

Job Search Examples Job Search Peer Review Practicum prep: Lingering questions || <span class="wiki_link">Good luck with spring! ||
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 * Finals week || Course evaluations