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Grandfather Tang's Story

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Production Plan: The student will first need to read the book, Grandfather Tang’s Story. He will need to question the importance of tanagrams to the plot of the story. In addition, he will need to understand how the tanagrams can change the flow of the story and question himself as to how he can change the storyline by a tanagram creation of his own. Data/Research Needed: Beau will be responsible for creating his own set of seven tanagram pieces needed for the assignment or choose from the math teacher’s tanagram manipulatives. He will then research on the web different types of tanagrams (or use reference materials provided by the teacher). Beau will then be responsible for recreating the character tanagrams illustrated throughout the …show more content…

He will have a rubric to follow which includes the components needed for the task. The final product will be turned in to me for review and then compiled with the class for a new book of tanagrams. Teacher’s Role: I will need to introduce the book to the class ensuring that the students have a clear understanding of the story plot. I will need to establish prior knowledge of the subject and relate the story to their lives or point out the similarities and differences in cultures. In addition, students will need a mathematical understanding of the seven different shapes that make up the animal tanagrams in the story. Teacher’s Role: I will develop a handout to supplement the oral directives of the lesson in a flow chart form. I will provide a list of websites that include tanagram formations but also encourage the students to discover websites of their own. I will include reference materials and diagrams of other tanagrams for students. I will provide math manipulative shapes that can be used for the assignment or borrow these manipulatives from the math teacher. Teacher’s …show more content…

They will discuss the importance of the newly created word to the story and discuss why or why this was not a good word choice for the author to use. Data/Research Needed: Students need to read and discuss the list of newly created words provided by the teacher (selfie, app, couch potato, etc.) deciding what makes these new words so appealing to become new words. The students in Joseph’s group may then choose to use an online source such as fakewordgenerator or their own creativity to develop 3 new words and items for their group. Final Product: The students in Joseph’s group will have to collaborate and choose only one new word and meaning from their discussions for their final product. Then they will have to create and original advertisement to sell the new word item. They can choose to act out the advertisement or use other means to communicate the word and its meaning to the audience. The audience will consist of the other students who have been reading different leveled books concerning formation of new words. Teacher’s

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