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Walk Two Moons Digital Literacy Unit

Overview: This unit will be for a 7th grade English class reading the book Walk Two Moons. This unit will be taught to all levels during a 4-week period. The students will read the book and they will participate in an online forum. They will blog both individually (as themselves) and in a group (as characters from the book).

Enduring Understandings: Empathy is important in human relationships. Storytelling helps us to know our identity within our families and also within our cultures.

Essential Questions: How does empathy help humans to understand one another? Why is empathy important to human relationships? Why do humans tell stories? What purposes do stories serve in our lives?

Assessment: Students will participate in an online role play in which they will take on the persona of a character in the book and then post writing on a blog as that character. Their posts will be evaluated for creativity, textual accuracy, depth, and structure (students will be forced to use appropriate language, punctuation, etc., so that this is not an exercise in IM language, see rubric)

Materials Needed:
Computers with access to Internet
Copies of Walk Two Moons
Parent Letter
Character Gmail I.D.’s
Student Gmail I.D’s
Assessment Rubric

Procedure:

Day One:
1. Discussion of Essential Questions
2. Listen to Story Corp
3. Evaluate the importance of storytelling
4. Read Walk Two Moons through Chapter 4
Day Two: Prep for Blog groups
1. Blog group assigned (groups of 3)
2. Groups come up with character profiles of 2 main characters
- Profile must include: Name, Age, Three most important character traits, names of family members, 3 important events
3. Create class character profile
4. Introduce Blog Role-Play assignment
Day Three: Computer Lab
1. Each group is assigned a character Gmail i.d.
2. Each group signs into the class Walk Two Moons Blog
3. Break out of groups, into individual bloggers; each individual student creates a gmail account
4. Each student posts a comment on the question, “What is empathy? Can you think of a time in your life when someone has empathized with you or when you have empathized with someone else?”
5. Homework: Read through chapter 8

Day Four: Computer Lab
1. Individual Post: Have you ever known a truth that you have ignored? Write about a time when you did not want to believe something even though you knew it was true.
2. Group Post: What does the lunatic want? ? Each character must say what they think the lunatic wants and why.
3. Read through chapter 15

Day Five: Computer Lab
1. Individual Post: Have you ever been given a piece of good advice? What was the advice and whom did it come from? Why was it good?
2. Group Character Blog: Who is leaving the notes for Phoebe’s family? What does the first note mean? If you think you are the note-leaver, you had better not let everyone know!
3. Weekly Wrap-up: What’s happening with the characters? What do Phoebe and Sal have in common? What are their differences?
4. Homework: Read through Chapter 20