Track Star Assignment

Trackstar & gForm Web-Based Assessment Lesson Planner


My Trackstar Number is: 409022

My Google Form Published Link:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHQtOEFHRGt5X1VTSmlrOWRLZkFyQ2c6MQ

1) The topic and target student age group is:
Theme: The American Dream in, “Raisin in the Sun” 11th Grade English

2) The state standard(s) this lesson will address are:
11.3.2 Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Literary Text: Analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a view or comment on life, using textual evidence to support the claim.




3) My learning objectives are:
1. Readers identify the foundations of The American Dream and apply that same theme to “Raisin in the Sun”
2. Readers compare text to life as they analyze the foundations to which Hansberry wrote “Raisin in the Sun”
3. Readers recognize allusion as a part of literature.



4) For each of your 5 websites create a question for assessment and the answer. Plan your assessment in the form below.

I. Website Name: Women of Color Women of Words
A. URL: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~cybers/hansberry2.html
B. Annotation
1. Task: Do you remember when you were seven years old? Think back about where you lived, struggles you may have gone through, and what you did on a daily basis. After reading through the website, create a diary entry from the perspective of a seven year old Loraine. Title your diary entry: “Dear Diary” and date it: May 19th, 1937.
2. Purpose: To relate to the author during this time period.
3. Assessment: Defend your position in regards to Loraine's childhood home being vandalized several times?
4. Answer: Answers may vary, but should include key words: racial descrimination, discrimination act, and/or segregation

II. Website Name: A Dream Deferred
A. URL: http://www.cswnet.com/~menamc/langston.htm
B. Annotation
1. Task: Remember what we learned about allusion and the title of our play, “A Raisin in the Sun”. After reviewing your notes on allusion, read the poem "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes, think then use the template below (copy and paste into a word document) to compose your own version of the poem based on your own life.
“Dream Deferred” Mad Lib
What happens to a _______ ________?
noun verb
Does it _______ ________
verb adverb
Like a _______ in the _________?
noun noun
Or _______ like a _______—
verb noun
And then _______?
verb
Does it _________ like __________
verb adjective
_________?
noun
Or ________ and ________
verb verb
___________—
adverb
like a ________ _________?
adjective noun
Maybe it _______ ________
adverb verb
like a _______ ________.
adjective noun
Or does it _________?
verb

Original by Langston Hughes Adapted by __________________________
(Write Your Name Here)

2. Purpose: To recognize allusion and to relate to the author of “A Raisin in the Sun”

3. Assessment: The title of “A Raisin in the Sun” is alluding to Langston Hughes’s “A Dream Deferred”. What might happen if you combined a title of a song or poem with your life?
4. Answer: Answers may vary, but can include: allude, allusion, alluding

III. Website Name: BNet White Flight
A. URL: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101315/
B. Annotation
1. Task: After learning about “White Flight”: pretend you are a reporter for the Elkhart Truth assigned to report the integration of Clybourne Park (in Chicago) by the Younger family. Write a three paragraph news article detailing their arrival, and the events that may, or may not have occurred after their arrival.

2. Purpose: To integrate what they have learned about segregation in the Chicago neighborhoods during the 50’s.

3. Assessment: What would you give as solutions or add to the United States Supreme Court declaring residential segregation unconstitutional?

4. Answer: Answer Varies, Looking for key words such as: Racial, water fountains, bathrooms, resturaunts, or schools.

IV. Website Name: Sparknotes “A Raisin in the Sun”
A. URL: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/raisin/canalysis.html
B. Annotation
1. Task: Analyze one character from “A Raisin in the Sun” using the biopoem format (you will need to copy and paste this format onto a word document):

Line 1: First name
Line 2. Two character traits that describe the character. ______________ _____________
Line 3: Relative of __________________
Line 4: Lover of __________________ (any person, place, or thing)
Line 5: Who feels __________________ ________________ & ______________
Line 6: Who needs __________________ (can be a physical, emotional, or real world need)
Line 7: Who fears __________________
Line 8: Who gives __________________
Line 9: Who would like to see __________________ (what in their future?)
Line 10: Resident of __________________
Line 11: Last name

2. Purpose: To incorporate what the students have learned about their surroundings in the 1950’s with what they have learned about the Younger family.
3. Assessment: Take what you have learned about round and flat characters and classify which type of character Walter would be?
4. Answer: Round

V. Website Name: Google Images
A. URL: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7TSHB_en&q=pictures+from+harlem+in+the+1950s&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=LlwCTOlmzf7wBqiR3JwP&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDEQsAQwAw
B. Annotation

1. Task: First take a look at the images found on Google Images. These pictures capture what life was like for African Americans living in South Side Chicago during the 1940s and 1950s. Take your time to view and analyze these images. What do they tell you about the society of South Side Chicago? Does the theme: The American Dream take place in these images? What might life have been like for a poor African American family living in South Side Chicago During the 1940s and 1950s? After taking these questions into consideration; create a 5-7 sentence journal entry as one of the people you found interesting from the pictures.

2. Purpose: To take deeper meaning to “The American Dream” through images and reflect upon those pictures.

3. Assessment: If you could choose one word to depict what it means to have “The American Dream” in the south side of Chicago in the 1950’s, which word best fits this time and place?

4. Answer: Freedom