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Nature Poem Video

Students will explore their connection with nature by creating a nature poem and a corresponding video. They will engage in brainstorming, writing, revising, shooting B-roll footage, and creating a final video. This integrated language arts and visual arts unit will allow students to express their thoughts and feelings about nature while developing their communication and media creation skills.

• Grade 5

Poetry Annotations

These lessons will give students an introduction to the basics of annotating poetry to improve understanding. It will begin by providing an overview of three essential literary devices needed to understand poetry. These are diction, imagery, and metaphors/similes. The lesson will then focus on note making methods for identifying these in a text (circling diction, underlining imagery, and squiggly-lining metaphors). Then, lessons will take a focus of one of these literary terms each day. When students have practiced identifying each element in a text they will then try and decipher meaning from a self-selected text by identifying these variables and trying to write a theme statement and paragraph about it.

• Grade 10

Sentence Fluency - Complex Sentences

Most of us don’t think about the structure of our sentences when we speak. But when we write, how we construct sentences becomes very important.

Sentence fluency is very difficult to teach and analyze with students. Sentence flow affects/improves how a piece is read aloud and the way it ‘reading sounds.’ A written piece should have natural starting and stopping points that imitate speech patterns. In this set of lessons, student writers will learn to pay attention to individual sentences in a piece, crafting and revising for length or type to achieve fluency when their own text is read aloud. Student writers will learn to very his/her sentence types, sentence beginnings, end punctuation and length of sentences to create flow.
This set of lessons challenges student to build complex sentences and combine them with short sentences. Without overburdening the student with grammatical terms, this set of lessons will provide mnemonic devices to remember different types of complex sentence structures. Students will engage in self-assessment of their own sentencing patterns and analyze their own writing to see areas for improvement, revisions, and refinement. The lessons will focus on the complex process of creating natural flow with activities that support students in understanding how varying sentences improves both meaning and enjoyment.
Assessment rubric to assess for Sentence Fluency is provided for summative assessment.

The objective of this series of lesson is for students to achieve the following:
• Students will vary:
• sentence beginnings
• sentence types
• end of sentence punctuation
• sentence length

• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8

Prediction - Reading Strategy

In this lesson series students will be able to name specific text features. They will use text features to ask focused/thick questions about text to enhance understanding and comprehension.
Students will practice prediction, learn to identify text features, and ask deeper questions to preview text and predict content. Students will also set purpose for reading. Lessons will demonstrate the importance of setting purpose for reading, skimming text, identifying, and retrieving information from various text features, and inferring. Students will ask insightful questions – (questions that go beyond the factual) to improve comprehension and identify main ideas in text. This strategy improves focus, engagement, recall and retention of information.

• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8

Tan Olokiskot? Naka Pemoluhkemkil

This module has been developed to support the Grade 6 Wolastoqey Latuwewakon curriculum.

• Grade 6

Qey Keti Kcicyul (Getting to know you)

This bundle introduces key Wolastoqey phrases and vocabulary to support the Wolastoqey Latuwewakon Grade 6 curriculum.

• Grade 6

Rhythm and Composition

This package contains lessons on reading rhythm & time signatures and composing using rhythm.

• Grade 7

Little Thunder

Learners will have the opportunity to view a video inspired by the Mi’kmaq legend “The Stone Canoe”. Throughout the lessons, they will create artwork inspired by the video and discuss the difference between appreciating and appropriating art from different cultures.

• Grade 7

Understanding my Emotions

This package examines the topic of human emotions. Students will explore what science says about human emotions and how they impact and influence our behaviors and experiences.

• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8

Comparing Viral Replication to other reproductive Cycles

This bundle has guided teaching used to scaffold student’s research and writing skills for science. Teachers can adapt this lesson to make it higher level by outlining more details for the formal written report, including APA format and citation. However, teachers can lower the level for writing expectations by allowing students to make PowerPoints, Comics, informational book etc. The goal of this assignment is for students to write with a scientific voice which aligns with the audience.

• Grade 11

Components of Polynomials

This bundle will act as in introduction to key terms that will be required in later lessons when simplifying and performing operations on polynomial expressions.

This will emphasize the definitions of, and identification of components of terms/polynomials. There will be opportunities for individual and group practice to reinforce the concepts. Assessments for learning are engrained within the bundle as worksheets, activities, and check-ins.

• Grade 9

Understanding Powers

This bundle is an introduction to powers. It connects powers to repeated multiplication and prime factorization. Understanding the components and representations of powers are essential building blocks in order to progress into power rules and applications in future outcomes at this grade level. (Such as the extension to scientific notation)

Where this bundle mostly emphasizes concept introduction and practice, most materials included teach and reinforce concepts and skills rather than contextual applications at this point.

• Grade 9