Understanding By Design Unit Template

Title of Unit
Curriculum Area
Developed By

Unit 1: Welcome!

Grade Level

10

ELA/World Literature and Composition

Time Frame

50 minutes

Miriam Gueck

Identify Desired Results (Stage 1)

Content Standards
1.1 Content that is gathered carefully and organized well successfully influences an audience
3.2 Organizational writing patterns inform or persuade an audience
4.1 Collect, analyze, and evaluate information obtained from multiple sources to answer a question, propose solutions, or share findings and
conclusions

Understandings

Essential Questions

Overarching Understanding

Overarching

Students will understand that...

-Multimedia texts can be composed thru Evernote
-Evernote is a great tool for group collaborative work
-Evernote is a great organizational tool for various types of work and/or
information

-How do I create multimedia text?

Related Misconceptions
-Multimedia texts are incredibly difficult to create
-Organizing various types of work and/or information is difficult to
maintain

-How can I collaborate through a

multimedia platform with my
classmates for group work?

-How do I keep various types of

work and/or information
organized?

Topical
-What are some good strategies for the
game 2 Truths and a Lie?
-How do I set up an account on Evernote?
-How do I compose my 2 Truths and a Lie
with text, images, audio and video on a
Note in Evernote?
-How do I organize various types of work
and/or information in and through
Evernote?
-How do I share my Notes/Notebooks with
others?

Knowledge

Skills

Students will know

Students will be able to

-How to gather and organize information to influence an audience

-How to set up an account on Evernote
-The multimedia capabilities of Evernote
-The organizational structure of Evernote in the form of Notes and
Notebooks
-The collaborative properties within Evernote

-Gather and organize information to influence an audience

-Set up an account on Evernote
-Create Notes and Notebooks in Evernote
-Practice including text, images, audio and video into Notes on Evernote
-Understand how to organize Notes into Notebooks
-Practice sharing multimedia compositions on Evernote with other Evernote
users e.g. their classmates and parents/guardians

Assessment Evidence (Stage 2)

Performance Task Description
Goal Create multimedia composition, 2 Truths and a Lie, in Evernote
RoleEvernote
Evernote User, Composer, Researcher, Multimedia Text Creator
AudienceSchool
School Community, Teacher, Students, Parents/Guardians
SituationCreating
Creating multimedia composition in Evernote
Product/Performance2
2 Truths and a Lie multimedia composition in Evernote
Standard 1: Oral Expression and Listening

a. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the
organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. (CCSS: SL.9-10.4)
b. Select organizational patterns and structures and choose precise vocabulary and rhetorical devices
c. Make decisions about how to establish credibility and enhance appeal to the audience
d. Rehearse the presentation to gain fluency, to adjust tone and modulate volume for emphasis, and to develop poise
e. Use peer and teacher feedback to evaluate and revise the presentation

Standards

Standard 3: Writing and Composition

a. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective
selection, organization, and analysis of content. (CCSS: W.9-10.2)

Standard 4: Research and Reasoning

a. Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question); narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate;
synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. (CCSS: W.9-10.7)

Other Evidence
Strategies/Ideas/Examples - 2 Truths and a Lie
Interactive Notebook brainstorming entry

Learning Plan (Stage 3)

Where are your students headed? Where have
Today, Day 3, falls on a Monday. Fridays homework was to look at the 2 Truths and a Lie
they been? How will you make sure the students Strategies/Ideas/Examples document, take home a 2 Truths and a Lie INB flap, come up
know where they are going?
with 2 truths and a lie, and record their brainstorming in their interactive notebooks.
Students will learn how to compose their 2 Truths and a Lie in Evernote. They will have the
option of including photographs, audio, and video. They must use text at the very least.
How will you hook students at the beginning of
Here are my 2 Truths and a Lie... What do you think?! (3 minutes)
the unit?
What events will help students experience and
Students will create accounts on Evernote.com
explore the big idea and questions in the unit?
I will recreate my 2 Truths and a Lie on Evernote in front of the class, modeling the composition
How will you equip them with needed skills and for the students. I will walk the students thru each step of composing, organizing, and sharing.
knowledge?
After I demonstrate how to do each step, students will practice that step in Evernote and share
what they did for that step with their elbow partner.

How will you cause students to reflect and

When students are practicing each step after I have demonstrated it, and sharing with
rethink? How will you guide them in rehearsing, their elbow partner what they did for that step, they will reflect and rethink about the
revising, and refining their work?
process were learning and practicing. Students will then create their own 2 Truths and a
Lie. On Day 2, the previous Friday, I informed parents/guardians of this assignment and
encouraged them to view and try to guess their students 2 Truths and a Lie tonight, and
offer praise and constructive criticism. Today I will remind students to show their
completed 2 Truths and a Lie to their parents/guardians tonight, and encourage them to
revise their work based on their parents/guardians feedback if they so desire.
Tomorrow, they will be presenting their compositions to the entire class, and we will all try
to guess each others.
How will you help students to exhibit and selfBy presenting their 2 Truths and a Lie to their parents/guardians the night before they present
evaluate their growing skills, knowledge, and
them in class, students will have at least two opportunities to exhibit their growing skills,
understanding throughout the unit?
knowledge, and understanding throughout the unit. Evaluating all of their classmates
presentations will help them evaluate their own presentations more criticially.
How will you tailor and otherwise personalize the Students will be taught how to incorporate images, audio and video into their composition
learning plan to optimize the engagement and
on Evernote, but they will not be required to do so for their composition. They will only be
effectiveness of ALL students, without
required to use text, and may include the other components only if they choose. I will
compromising the goals of the unit?
highly encourage them to do so, but it will not be mandatory.
How will you organize and sequence the learning Day 2s homework was for students to read the 2 Truths and a Lie Ideas and Examples,
activities to optimize the engagement and
and record their brainstorming for their own composition in their interactive notebooks, so
achievement of ALL students?
that when they come to class today, theyre prepared to compose in multimedia form.
I will present my own composition, have students guess which one of mine isnt true, then I
will model for the students how to produce this type of composition in Evernote, how to
organize in Evernote, and how to share files in Evernote, step by step.
Students will practice each step after I have demonstrated it, sharing what they did for
each step with their elbow partner. (40 minutes)
If there is time remaining in class, students will begin composing their 2 Truths and a Lie in
Evernote. Homework will be to finish creating their composition and to present it to their
parents/guardians. (7 minutes)
Tomorrow students will present their compositions and we will play 2 Truths and a Lie.
From: Wiggins, Grant and J. Mc Tighe. (1998). Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
ISBN # 0-87120-313-8 (ppk)