Zacharias Willerson

TLED 430
11/06/17

TPACK Template

C Subject English
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n Grade Level 10th
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e Learning Objective 10.1 The student will participate in, collaborate in, and report on
n small-group learning activities.
t f) Collaborate with others to exchange ideas, develop new
understandings, make decisions, and solve problems.

10.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze literary texts of
different cultures and eras.
d) Analyze the cultural or social function of literature.
e) Identify universal themes prevalent in
the literature of different cultures.

10.6 The student will develop a variety of writing to persuade,

interpret, analyze, and evaluate with an emphasis on exposition and
analysis.
a)Generate, gather, plan, and organize ideas for writing to address a
specific audience and purpose.

10.8 The student will collect, evaluate, organize, and present

information to create a research product.
a) Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate,
synthesize, and communicate information.

P Online Activity
e The Animal Farm Simulation Unit is a multi class period
d simulation designed to be used in conjunction with a unit of
a study on George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm. This
g simulation can be used either in an in-person class, or in an
o online based class. For an online based classed, the students
g and teacher should have access to the necessary hardware
y (laptop or tablet, preferably with audio and video
capabilities) and software (most importantly a web based
collaborative whiteboard program such as BaiBoard).

Before the unit begins, each student will be assigned an

identity as a particular type of animal. Each student
maintains this identity throughout the unit. The teacher will
then have students form groups based on their animal
 species. The teacher will be able to interact with student
groups (as well as the class as a whole) through the
interactive whiteboard program.

As this is a unit study covering an entire novel, the

simulation will be broken down by chapter. For example,
after reading the first chapter, students will be assigned the
task of creating their own animal identities and biographies.
After reading chapter two, the animal groups will meet
together, and each student will read their biography to their
fellow group members. The groups will then elect one
member from their group to be their election candidate.
As a group, the students will write a campaign speech for
their selected candidate. After all candidates have been
chosen and prepared, each candidate will present their
biography and campaign speech, after which the entire class
will vote for their animal farm leader (using a polling
program such as Kahoot!).

Each chapter of the novel is similarly tied to an activity

which serves to simulate the events of the novel, with each
simulative assignment detailed in the unit simulation's
downloadable file. The simulation ends with an assignment
asking students to report on the end results of the class
simulation, and how those results mirror or differ from
those in the novel.

It should be noted that this simulation does have a

(negligible) one time cost (for the teacher only) of five
dollars.

T Technology
e Hardware: Computer or tablet
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h Software/apps: online collaborative whiteboard; Kahoot!;
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