ENGLISH PLANNING

Cornerstone & Keystone

Accelerates Academic Vocabulary

Develops Transferable Skills

A Roadmap to Academic Success

CORNERSTONE & KEYSTONE

A Roadmap to Academic Success:A well-organized, yet easy-to-use roadmap of skills is essential to helping your students achieve success. The step-by-step lesson plan and built-in strategies for differentiated instruction ensures that every learner gets the support he or she needs to achieve long term academic success.

CORNERSTONE & KEYSTONE

CORNERSTONE & KEYSTONE

Unit Introduction

Prepare to Read

Reading

After Reading

UNIT INTRODUCTION

CORNERSOTNE KEYSTONE

Big Question Content summary Readings Listening and

speaking Writing Quick write What do you know

about…? Your stories about…?

Big Question Content summary Readings Listening and

speaking Writing Quick write

PREPARE TO READ

CORNERSTONE KEYSTONE

Vocabulary Key words Academic words Word analysis and

fluency Phonics and

fluency Words in conext Make

connections

Vocabulary Key words Literary words Academic words Word study

The Big Question Build Background Reading strategy

READING

CORNERSTONE KEYSTONE

Before reading Kind of text Big Question Reading strategy

During the reading Check up Think it over Reading strategy

Before reading Kind of text Set purpose for

reading During the

reading Before you go on Literary check

Highlited words are NOT vocabulary

AFTER READING

CORNERSTONE KEYSTONE

Comprehension Learning strategy Extension

Grammar & writing

Review and practice Comprehension Reader’s theater Dramatic reading In your own words Discussion Response to

literature Read for fluency Extension

Grammar & writing

UNIT WRAP-UP

Link the

Readings

Projects

Workshops

Learn About Art

FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTUREby Howard Gardner

The Five Minds are

competencies which

young people and

the society need in

the twenty first

century going

forward.

FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTUREby Howard Gardner

Disciplined Mind

Synthesizing Mind

Creative Mind

Respectful Mind

Ethical Mind

DISCIPLINED MINDThe term disciplinary thinking has three

connotations of the English word discipline.

1. Practice to get disciplinary muscle.2. Master the major ways of thinking.

Different from subjet matter Things which you just can’t pass on Poorly disciplined mind: look through one

discipline

3. Become an expert in at least one thing.

Arthur Rubinstein – famous pianist

SYNTHESIZING MIND Criteria for deciding what to pay

attention to and what to ignore.Too much information on internet, etc.

Put information together in ways which cohere, which make sense for you.

Has to be transmittable to other people.Mind mapsStoriesFormulasChartsEtc.

CREATIVE MIND You cannot be creative unless you have

mastered at least one discipline, art or craft.

Cognitive science teaches us that on the average, it takes about ten years to master a craft.

CREATIVITY

EXPERT

PERSONALITY JUDGEMENT

OF THE FIELD

RESPECTFUL MIND It is recognizing that the

world is composed of people who look different, think differently, have different belief and value systems, and that we can no longer be hermits and live in complete isolation.

This process begins with birth and at home.

ETHICAL MIND

Involves a higher level of abstraction.

Being in the world involves a higher level of thinking.

GOOD WORK PROJECT

ETHICAL

EXCELLENCE

ENGAGEMENT

CONCLUSION

“Intelligence plus character— that’s the goal of true education”.

Martin Luther King Jr.