{"id":689,"date":"2018-11-27T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat19-template\/?page_id=689"},"modified":"2020-04-29T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T16:09:02","slug":"understanding-goals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-apichardo\/learning-teaching-portraits\/understanding-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Development of Content Understanding (Key Concepts and Ideas)<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will analyze themes of home, displacement, survival, courage and vulnerability in the novel<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will analyze the development of main characters and their individual story line plots<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will understand key factors in current immigration and refugee policies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will analyze immigrant and refugee populations as well as support systems in Worcester<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will explore different reasons that cause people to migrate<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will use evidence from the text to support an argument and or ideas<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Enabling Students to Experience the Power of Their Minds and Their Capacities as Learners and Doers (Powerful Learning)<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will write in the persona of main characters in the novel<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will make connections between the novel and vulnerable populations in the city of Worcester<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will show their understanding and new knowledge in various ways (i.e. writing from the persona of a character, found poems, narrative writing, collages, etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Ways of Knowing and Academic Literacy<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will develop an understanding and practice of literary terms including: character development, exposition, climax, resolution, foreshadow, symbolism, imagery<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will develop an understanding of terms related to migration including: quarantine, citizenship, immigrant, refugee, assimilation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will engage in collaborative work including peer support, editing, and group discussions<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Literacy Development<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will engage with the text in many different ways: peer and individual reading sessions, read-aloud and audio books listening, small\/large group discussions<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Development of Trust and the Classroom as a Learning Community<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students will engage in large group discussions during read-aloud and audio book listening sections, often these conversations will require students to share personal or unique life experiences and ideas<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development of Content Understanding (Key Concepts and Ideas) Students will analyze themes of home, displacement, survival, courage and vulnerability in the novel Students will analyze the development of main characters and their individual story line plots Students will understand key factors in current immigration and refugee policies Students will analyze &#8230; 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