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Plot Elements Linking the brain, mind, teaching, and learning Amy Roberto October 2013 TARGET AUDIENCE • Christopher Columbus Middle School in Clifton, NJ • 6th Grade Language Arts Class – 23 Students – Culturally diverse – Various learning styles – Inclusion setting Classroom Environment: – Friendly, respectful, and tolerant – Encourages social justice and multicultural education – Encourages thinking outside the box – Close knit – Humorous – Multi-sensory GOALS, CONTENT, AND OBJECTIVES SWBAT: • Define, understand, depict, and use plot elements • Map out a story’s plot in sequential order • Cite textual evidence in order to answer questions and give meaning to text • Relate content across the curriculum and to their everyday lives PRIMETIME 1 (Primacy) • Defining terms • Streaming videos • Discussing terms • Brainstorming additional examples for each term Total time: 25 minutes DOWN TIME • Conflict skits • Cinderella interactive • Plot map Total time: 25 minutes PRIME TIME 2 (recency) • Plot elements rap Total time: 5 minutes EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT • Completion of all classroom activities and discussions • Conflict skit • Plot map • Plot elements quiz TECHNOLOGY • Computer with speakers • LCD projector • Elmo • SmartBoard and SmartBoard Notebook software • Youtube video clips • SmartBoard Notebook random name picker • Cinderella interactive • Flocabulary song SENSE AND MEANING SENSE •Learning terms and definitions MEANING •Connecting terms and their meanings to video clip examples •Recording them in their notebook •Connecting terms and their meanings to real life events •Creating and performing skits based on types of conflict •Depicting elements in Cinderella SENSORY INPUT NEURONS • Detect info • Integrate info • Respond to info LIMBIC SYSTEM • Thalamus • Hippocampus • Amygdala CEREBRAL LOBES • Frontal lobe • Occipital lobe • Temporal lobe • Parietal lobe MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES LEARNING STYLES ABSTRACT RANDOM CONCRETE RANDOM •Video clips •Cinderella interactive •Class discussion •Skit •Skit •Plot map •Cinderella interactive •Plot elements rap song ABSTRACT SEQUENTIAL CONCRETE SEQUENTIAL •Cinderella interactive •Defining Terms •Skit •Cinderella interactive •Class discussion •Plot map •Plot map •Plot elements quiz CITATIONS Clark, Don. "Learning and Memory." Cartoon. Instructional Design. Knowledge Jump, 2010. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. <http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/memory.html>. Sousa, David A. How the Brain Learns. Third ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2006. Print. "Understanding Your Student's Learning Style: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences." Cartoon.Virtual Learning Connections. Connections Education LLC, 2013. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. <http://www.connectionsacademy.com/blog/posts/2013-0118/Understanding-Your-Student-s-Learning-Style-The-Theory-of-MultipleIntelligences.aspx>. *All other images are from Microsoft Clipart.