Task #1: Reading Enrichment Unit March 6, 2015: 8th grade Media Production, Durham Middle School

Digital Resource Website, You Can Survive High School; Survey, Did You Know…?; Resource Listly, High School Survival Kit

Audience 8th grade, middle school students (rising 9th graders)Length of Session 30 minutesLesson Objectives Learners will be able to:

1. Listen to and ask questions about a book talk on Heather Brewer’s YA novel series, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod.2. Identify, using an online survey, and discuss knowledge of vampires and surviving high school.3. Read and comprehend stories from Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul.4. Write an age-appropriate letter to rising 8th graders.

AASL Standards Standard I: Teaching for LearningElements:1.1 Knowledge of learners and learning1.2 Effective and knowledgeable teacher1.4 Integration of 21st century skills and learning standards

ISTE Standards for Teachers

1. Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity2. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments

Activation Instructor will present a book talk about the YA novel 8th grade Bites, the first book in Heather Brewer’s series The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod.

Instruction 1. After listening to the book talk, learners will access an online survey (using a QR code printed on handout) and answer questions about vampire and surviving high school.

2. Learners will discuss survey results and apply their answers to a discussion about vampire literature and their feelings about going to high school next year.3. Learners will read a story from Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul about Charles Shultz and overcoming mediocrity.

Assessment Learners will write a letter to rising 8th graders giving them advice about being the leaders at the school next year and how to prepare for high school.

Closing Learners will receive a handout with QR codes to use to access an online resource list to use over the summer and next year in high school.

Presenter: Amy Vickrey