I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Responsibility

Essential Question:

What makes someone a hero or a heroine?

Bridge:

Persistence is like…

Content:

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To get the children thinking about who are heroes and heroines to them.

Activity: Have the children name two of their heroes and heroines.

Assessment: Completion of the task

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To have the children begin to examine exactly what makes a hero or heroine to them.

Activity: Have the children list the characteristics of their heroines/heroes. Note the common ones that keep coming up.

Assessment: Richness of the list

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To have the children ponder the deeper meaning of persistence.

Activity: Teach the word persistence. Its derivation is “to stand through.” Then have the children create metaphors verbally, Persistence is like…

Assessment: Understanding of the meaning of the word as shown in the metaphors, and originality.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To understand and enjoy the book.

Activity: Read The Lighthouse Keepers Daughter..

Assessment:Attentiveness and understanding on the part of the children

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To elicit from the children the pertinent details of the story.

Activity: Have the children list three hard things Miranda had to do. Then have them divide a piece of paper in half, title it “Persistence” and draw on one side a picture of Miranda being persistent and on the other side a picture of her mother being persistent.

Assessment: Details in the drawings that indicate the story as well as the notion of persistence.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To have the children illustrate their own ideas on what heroes and heroines do.

Activity: Have the children make an illustrated list of the kinds of things heroines and heroes do.

Assessment: Not the combination of extraordinary and ordinary things. You goal is for the children to understand the most heroines and heroes are not super stars, but ordinary people doing what they do with persistence, caring and courage.

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To have the children reflect on their own impact on others.

Activity: Have the children write a reflection on: Who am I a hero to?

Assessment:The quality of the understanding of how they influence younger children.

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To have the children experience how there is a hero/heroine in all of us.

Activity: Have the children draw a picture with multiple faces of heroes and heroines and include their own face.

Assessment: The child’s own meaning is the only assessment here. The child needs to tell an interested person about her/his picture.

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: