Background

Content Area: English/Language Arts

Title: Documenting a Journey and Personal Growth

Grade Level or Target Group: Sixth Grade, English/Language Arts Students

preplanning

Big Idea(s): Esperanza’s journey was both a physical one and one that changed her as a person.

Essential Questions (connected to your selected content area): How does a journey change a character in a book as well as you as a person?

Objective: Students explore Esperanza’s growth and change through her journey from Mexico to America and connect that to their own personal growth through life experiences.

Content Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
​Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.A
Introduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.B
Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.8
Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Summative Assessment: ​Students present and connect their personal growth to Esperanza or Miguel’s journey in the novel Esperanza Rising using a storytelling application

Lesson Plan

Lesson Opening (The Hook):
Include a least one content-area app to gain students’ interest:
  • Adobe Post will be used with a quote from Esperanza Rising and an image selected from the App as an initial
  • Sparklefish App to practice storytelling 

Lesson Body:
Explanation:
  • Adobe Voice is used to gather images and post quotes which could include work created with the Adobe Post app
    • ​Students provide quotes from the book with analysis of a character in Esperanza Rising
    • Students also add an image and commentary about personal experiences and their impact on their growth individually as well.
Check for Understanding:
  • Students post on a shared Lino with stickies to add a quote from the book, Esperanza Rising, as well as their character analysis of Esperanza at the moment that quote was spoken  (link to Lino).
  • Students review each other's posts to reflect and generate new ideas about character development.
Extended Practice:
  • Students use Book Creator to identify multiple quotes about a character in the book which demonstrate how the character has changed. 
    • Students also relate their own personal experiences and changes they have experienced that connect to the characters

Lesson Closing:
Lesson Closing:
  • ​Students select either WeVideo or iMovie, depending on what they have available to them in terms of of a mobil device to create a video identifying at least three quotes about one character in the book, Esperanza Rising, with an explanation of how that character has changed.
  • ​Students need to make a personal connection with the character in terms of their own experiences somewhere in the video
  • Final Project Suggestions: WeVideo (free for both iOS and Android) or iMovie ($4.99 on iOS devices)

Materials/Tutorials:

Devices needed to use these tools: Primarily iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) with some costs as noted for Apps

Adobe Post  |  Free - available on iOS devices only

​Adobe Voice  |  Free - available on iOS iPad devices only

Book Creator |  $4.99 - available on iOS iPad devices only
Lino | Free

iMovie |  $4.99 - available on iOS iPad devices only


WeVideo |  Free - available ona variety of devices