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District Resources:
Unit 2:
 * • || [|Overview] [[image:http://www.sandi.net/images/pdf_icon.gif width="10" height="10"]] ||
 * • || [|Unit At a Glance] [[image:http://www.sandi.net/images/pdf_icon.gif width="10" height="10"]] ||
 * • || Instructional Guides (by week) ([[image:http://www.sandi.net/images/pdf_icon.gif width="10" height="10"]]) : [|1] | [|2] | [|3] | [|4] | [|5] | [|6] | [|7] | [|8] | [|9] ||
 * • || Lesson Plans (by week) ([[image:http://www.sandi.net/images/pdf_icon.gif width="10" height="10"]]) : [|1] | [|4] | [|5] ||
 * • || Strategic Support (by week) ([[image:http://www.sandi.net/images/pdf_icon.gif width="10" height="10"]]) : [|1] ||
 * • || [|Resources] [[image:http://www.sandi.net/images/pdf_icon.gif width="10" height="10"]] ||
 * • || [|Assessment] [[image:http://www.sandi.net/images/pdf_icon.gif width="10" height="10"]] ||

Here is the video that we watched during your PD session:
[|Grass Born to Be Stepped On]

Resources:
Four Corner & Philisophical Debate [| 4 Corner_Philosophical Debate.pdf]

[|Persuasion Map] [| UOI Lesson Template.doc]

[|Taking It Global] - a website for studying Social Responsibilty - useful for persuasive topics

Teacher Created Lesson Plans

Student Writing Samples: Persuasive
On-Demand : [|6] | [|7] | [|8] Processed Writing : [|6] | [|7] | [|8]

Here are some specific lessons from the ReadWriteThink website that we looked at during our PD session:
[|Persuasion Map] [|Persuasive Essay: Environment Issues] [|A Character's Letter to the Editor] [|Copyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads]

A site with a Persuasive tutorial, Persuasive PowerPoint, Mini Lesson and lots of other resources.
[|Great Source Persuasive Lessons]

**Tools for Creating a Persuasive Video**
[|Constructing Digital Stories] Step by step - process for tell a Digital Story Making Movies -- A wiki that shows how to download and use Photostory, free pictures, and copyright free music. [|Clips to show students how to create a documentary from clips using Ken Burns clips from the Civil War] Sample storyboard

Useful Texts


"Al Capone Does My Shirts" - character development __Things Not Seen__ by Andrew Clements - character development, theme, how plot affects character Survivng the Applewhites - character development, theme, how plot affects character __Deperaux__ by Katie DiCamillo - full of characters and their relationships, character analysis
 * Teacher Recommended Titles**