The Blind Side Lesson Plan

Quote Expansion

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will create videos to demonstrate the depth of their understanding of the importance of the quote they chose.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.6

Structure:

Break students into pairs. Each pair will pick one quote they feel is important from Chapters Four and Five. The importance of the quote to the chapter/book should be based on how it represents an important idea/theme in the book. They will then write ~200 words explaining why that quote is important.

Next, pairs will use what they wrote to create a...