11th Grade Computers

Content

School Wide Skills

Writing/ Presentations/ Projects

Unit 1: Technology and Me

How Can I Use Technology
to Work, Learn, Think and
Grow? VARK questionnaire,
self discovery and reflection
among peers;
Introduction to regular use of
school email for daily tasks
like Do Now, Google Forms
for submitting and collecting
information;
Technology Survey; reading
and interpreting responses,
including graphs;
st
21 century learners needs
and tools;
SRI test; reading;
Summative essay about self
with peer editing and revision

Unit 2: Computer Basics

Intro to Mac (folders, data
management/protocols;
rules);
Google apps (document,
spreadsheet, forms, sites);
reading and interpreting
responses, including graphs;
Keyboarding (correct
position, typing speed and
accuracy, tracking progress,
Microsoft Word/Google
docs);

Unit 3: Digital Citizenship

CIPA requirements;
Digital Etiquette,
Cyberbullying; skits (about
what to do and what not to
do);
Sourcing an online
video/text, fact-checking by
finding three sources;
Viruses/Malware Legal
implications

Unit 4: Digital Storytelling

Introduction to Final Cut Pro
X, producing scripts and
storyboards;
Combining still images with
sound and transitions;
shooting video; types of
shots; editing video with

Grammar & Punctuation:

Capitalization
Commas
Conjunctions
Conditionals
Correcting run on sentences
Questions vs. statements
Quotation marks
Present vs. past tense
Subject verb agreement

Writing:
Prewriting strategies:
brainstorming web, pairshare, sample topic
sentences, repeat for each
paragraph
Topic sentences
Finding and Analyzing
Evidence from a text to
support an argument
Writing questions
Writing for presentations
Paraphrasing
Summarizing
Film Scripts
Writing dialogue
Writing Types:
o Letters (unit 1)
o Persuasive (1)
o Literary Analysis
(unit 5)
CM Language Functions:
o Compare and
Contrast (unit 1)
o Sequencing (unit
1,2,3,4,6,7)
o Argument/ support
(units 1, 2, 5)
o Cause and Effect
(unit 3, 5)

Reading:
Close Reading of a textbased video (unit 1)
Close Reading of short text
(unit 1)
Sourcing a video (unit 1)
Guided Reading (unit 1, 2, 6,
7)
Text Connections (unit 1)
Visualizing (unit 1, 2, 6, 7)
Predicting (unit 6, 7)
Inferring (unit 1, 3, 6, 7)

Unit 1: Technology and Me

o Create a Survey
o Google Drawing of a survey
result (mini-infographic)
o GoAnimate cartoon: I Am a
st
21 Century Learner
o Letter About Myself 2.0
(essay in Google Docs)
o GoAnimate cartoon: What
We Should Do in Computers
Class

Unit 2: Computer Basics

o Worksheets on Computer
Basics videos
o Typing Tournament
o Tracking progress over time
in spreadsheet

Unit 3: Digital Citizenship

o Presentations on social
issues related to the Web
o Online Common Sense
Media quizzes
o Skits about Cyberbullying

Unit 4: Digital Storytelling

o Love Letter to a Place (video)
o Types of Shots Posters

Unit 5: Graphic Design

o Professional Portraits
(headshots) and/or
commercial photograph
o Loveletter to a Place Poster
(GIMP)

Unit 6: Intermediate Photo, Video
and Sound
o Goals for 2014 (GIMP)
o Sequencing (storyboard with
captions)
o 6 word memoirs
o Book Trailer video (Script,
storyboard, set/props, video,
FCP X)

Unit 7: Computer Science

o Creative reuse of computer
parts
o Making Thinking Visible
poster
o Presentation with slides

sound, transitions and titles;

video sequencing;
Love Letter to a place;
combining still images with
sound and transitions; writing
scripts

Unit 5: Graphic Design

Design basics (color, shape,
composition); relate to
photography (rule of thirds,
framing, storytelling);
Student Portraits (using
professional lights) and
design software (GIMP) skills
Create posters for New
Years Resolutions

Unit 6: Intermediate Photo, Video
& Sound
Shooting photo and video,
editing in GIMP, FCP X and
iMovie,
Producing scripts and
storyboards
Acting, directing, designing
sets and props, working on a
film crew, interviewing
Partner with English class
The Absolutely True Diaries
of a Part-Time Indian)

Unit 7: Computer Science

Algorithms, coding, coding
games, careers,
Recycling and reusing
computer parts,
Opening a desktop computer
motherboard, hard drive,
RAM, connectors,
troubleshooting, parts of an
electrical circuit, materials
inside computer, Google
Presentations, oral
presentations;
Angry Birds, Blocky Maze
Design an App
Hour of Code tutorials

Unit 8: Immigration Nation

Upload paragraphs and
pictures to iNation website
(share immigration stories on
an web-based timeline);
Personal narrative (5
paragraph essay) about
immigration experiences;
Immigration Nation video

Unit 9: Websites
Planning and creating

Questioning (unit 1, 3, 6, 7)
Evaluating importance (unit
1, 3, 6)
Retelling (unit 3, 6, 7)
Finding and Evaluating
Evidence to Support
Argument (unit 1, 2, 3, 8)
Paraphrasing (unit 1, 6)
Summarizing (unit 1, 6)
Sequencing (unit 1, 2, 6, 7)

Presentation/Speaking
Present to large groups:
understands rubric similar to
portfolio rubric, uses
multimedia, can ask/respond
to questions, can improve
presentations based on
feedback
Daily required to speak
English in whole or small
group, pair shares, and film
crew meetings

Vocabulary/ Word Analysis:

Vocabulary and sentence
frames related to compare,
contrast, sequence,
argument, support, predict,
infer, connect, visualize,
question, cite evidence,
cause and effect, analysis of
evidence
Synonyms
Key unit vocabulary
(differentiated)

Numeracy:
Interpreting and Explaining
Data (unit 1, 2, 4, 6)
Number sense (unit 1, 2, 3,
6)
Understand the relationships
and ratios between numbers
and evaluate their
significance (unit 1, 2)

Computers:
Various applications (all
units)

Cultural Competency:
Takes responsibility for
behavior of others
Able to reflect upon
successes and failures
Able to set goals
Serves as ambassador to the
school

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Motherboard circuitry
The Hour of Code

Unit 8: Immigration Nation

Personal narrative (5
paragraph essay) about
immigration experiences
Immigration Nation video (2
minutes)

Unit 9: Websites
o Digital Portfolio

Materials:

Texts
VARK questionnaire
Close Reading of a textbased video (unit 1)
Class website (unit 2, 3, 4, 5,
6)
Sequencing: the Foundation
of Video Storytelling (unit 4,
6)
The Absolutely True Diaries
of a Part-Time Indian (unit 6)
StoryCorps: Listening is an
Act of Love (unit 8)
5-10 immigrant narratives by
students (unit 8)
Carlos Bueno article (unit 7)
A Mess of Machines
(Empower 3000) (unit 7)
Bruce Buckelew (OTX West)
Biography (unit 7)
Kevin Doe article (unit 7)
The Enter Question (unit 8)

Videos
A Vision of K-12 Students
Today
GCF Videos (computer
basics)
Six Word Memoirs
YouTube and YouTube-iness
E-books vs. Real books
California is a Place videos
The Mayor (HERE, pass:
mayor)
The Caretaker (HERE).

content for webpages

Combining writing with
multimedia and interactivity
for optimum impact