Submitted by: Ellen Griffin
School: Tuckahoe Middle School
Summary
Friedrich is a story of what happens to one German-Jewish family during the Holocaust. As conditions for the Jewish people worsen throughout Germany and Europe, so do they for Friedrich’s family until they become part of Hitler’s Final Solution. The class will generate three Wordles to indicate the emotions of the family. The different Wordles will illustrate the downward spiral of Jews during the holocaust. Students will summarize the emotions depicted in the Wordle and post that as a response on the teacher’s blog. Students will review all the wordles at the end of the book and write and entry that will explain how the family’s emotions were influenced by the events of the Holocaust. Students will support their explanations with direct quotes from the book. Students will respond to other’s entries and include at least one quote from that student’s response.
TIPC Ratings
While all strands of the TIPC are important and should be addressed, this lesson does not focus on Research and Information Fluency. There are ways to increase the level of Research and Information Fluency but they may not tie as closely to the learning outcomes focused on in this lesson.
Target – The teacher is facilitating and formatively assessing student work when they publish their own thoughts and when they are responding to their peers. The whole class collaborated to create the Wordle as the writing prompt and discuss the significance of particular words which were included. Students are communicating with each other through the blog in the form of original responses and personalized responses by including references to the original student post and references and quotes from the book.
Approaching – The teacher is creating the opportunity for students to critically evaluate an image to determine patterns from the literature selection Friedrich. Students analyze the image and write a summary of the most important emotions depicted on the Wordle which is posted on the blog. Students support their summary with at least one quote from the book.
Approaching – Students are creating original responses and substantive replies to peers. Students select emotions to focus on in their summaries based on class submissions displayed in form of a Wordle. Student original work includes self selected quotes from the literary work and quotes from their peer’s original summary.
Student Artifact
