Unit Plan

As your final project for our course, your curriculum unit should demonstrate a solid understanding of one of the course texts and its contexts.  Your 10-lesson unit plan should contain the following pieces.

1. An introductory essay (6-8 pages) that provides a theoretical and practical framework for the unit and its function within an imagined or real broader course (you choose the level of the students) and explains the nature, themes, and goals of the unit.  You may draw on readings from the class, your classmates’ model lessons, other experiences, and/or outside readings.

Your essay should include an overview of the unit materials, identify the major issues and questions that the unit is intended to raise, lay out the learning objectives for students in the unit (both alone and in the context of the course), and detail the methods you will use to evaluate student learning, including a rationale for these methods.

2. A detailed plan for the unit that:

·      Explains the rationale for the unit, providing the necessary critical and historical background for the ideas, issues and documents presented in the unit;

·      Lists the major ideas, questions, and issues raised by the unit;

·      Details the sequence of readings and assignments;

·      Provides study guides or discussion questions for the central text and supporting documents;

·      Provides written and/or oral assignments based on the text and/or other documents.

·      Includes grading rubrics or other assessment materials that demonstrate how students will be assessed

3. Copies of all materials assigned in the unit (except books and films), and explanations of all visual and/or auditory documents created for the course.  This may be submitted electronically.

4. A brief annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources used in putting together the unit plan, in which the annotations focus on the ideas most useful to the project.