Rupert Secondary-UDL&Backwards Design, Jan 2014
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It’s All about Thinking – Collaborating to Support All Learners
Reading, Writing, Thinking Strategies Secondary Prince Rupert
January 10, 2014 Faye Brownlie
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Lit 12: prac?ce without penalty Naryn Searcy, Pen?cton
• Goal: learn how to represent your understanding of a poem in a different ways
• Poet: Robert Burns – Auld Lang Syne (read aloud) – To a Mouse (teams)
1. Read aloud and prac?ce stanza with partner
2. Connect to themes: – Mankind has broken its union with nature – Even our best laid plans oRen do not work out
3. Microcosm & universal truths
Assignment
1. Mouse Dance – all 8 stanzas (2-‐4 students)
2. Comic (1-‐2 students)
3. Reduced poetry (1-‐2 students)
Criteria
• Demonstrate understanding of the meaning of all 8 stanzas of the poem
• Recognize and demonstrate the 2 themes
Feedback
• What worked? • What’s missing?
• What’s next?
Robert Burns (1759-‐1796)To a Mouse On Turning Up Her Nest with the
Plough, November, 1785
Wee, sleeket, cowrin, Im'rous beasIe, Oh, what a panic's in thy breasIe! Thou need na start awa sae hasty
Wi' bickerin braNle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee Wi' murd'ring paNle!
Reduced Poem Poor li]le mouse petrified Don’t run away quickly! Humans break nature’s contract – theme 1 No trust well deserved You don’t request much Have too much myself Oh your house gone! December approaches uncomfortably close Security beneath the chill Soon destroyed with cut Home lost high price Not alone in lesson: Best plans oRen fail – theme 2 Mouse lucky because humans Regret past/fear future
Mouse Dance Notes 1. Mouse (Ma]) gathering materials for winter, builds house
(Boyd) 2. Mouse is shivering – symbolizing winter 3. Famer & his equipment (Ethan & Corey) destroy mouse’s
house – represents theme that man breaks nature’s fickle bond
4. Farmer feels bad, tries to apologize to mouse (nature) 5. Mouse won’t accept forgiveness – nothing leR to build a
house 6. Mouse comes back and shoots the farmer 7. Mouse has heart a]ack – represents the theme that plans
oRen backfire – best laid plans of mouse and men don’t work!
Beginning with images…
Marco Cianfanelli, of Johannesburg, sculptor
50 ten metre high laser cut steel plates set into the landscape, represen5ng the 50 year anniversary of when and where Mandela was captured and arrested in 1962 (prior to his 27 years of incarcera5on). Standing at a par5cular point (presumably the spot where the people are standing in Photo #2), the columns come into focus and the image of Mandela can be seen. At Natal Midlands