1. 7 th grade Civics and English 2009

2. Unit Plan Summary: 7 th grade students will create a folktale, fable, myth, or parable to teach a lesson on citizenship to fifth graders.

3. Essential Question Who is important?

4. Unit Questions What qualities of a citizen do you possess? What lessons could you teach or learn from a fable, folktale, myth, or legend. Content Questions What is a citizen? What are qualities of a citizen? What is a fable, folktale, myth or legend? What do fables, folktales, myths, and legends have in common.

5. Assessment Timeline Before  It! Chart  Online Journal

6. By Using Project Approaches and Ongoing Assessment My Students Will: 1.Write and create stories using photo story or movie maker 2.Complete a folktale web quest 3.Read stories of citizenship and participate in online blogging regarding examples of good citizenship.

7. Gauging Student Needs Assessment I will use my Essential and Unit Questions to: Find out what students think are qualities of good citizenship and characteristics of fables, folktales, myths, and legends.

8. Gauging Student Needs Assessment What I will learn from the assessment What my students think are good qualities of citizenship What my students think are characteristics of folktales, fables, myths, and legends. IT_CHART.doc