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Etymology Builder Unit Plan

Academics, Apple Distinguished Educator, EduTech, Lesley University January 23rd, 2010

The following documentation was created using the Understanding by Design method, WA State Language Arts Standards, and ISTE Standards. It is a unit designed so that students can build their vocabulary by understanding root words.

Unit Activities

Unit Scope and Sequence

Japanese WebQuest

Academics, Apple Distinguished Educator, EduTech, YIS January 23rd, 2010

During my 1:1 sessions with a Japanese classroom teacher, we created a WebQuest to support her motivation to use technology in the classroom and to help students be self-directed in honing their research skills in Japanese. The unit below asks students to find one Japanese folklore story and ‘translate’ the story using a Japanese dialect that the teacher assigned to them. The students have heard these stories in 標準語 ’standard’, non-dialect Japanese that translating it into a different dialect and sharing their stories to the class made them think of geography and culture in terms of expressions in Japanese.