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Mind Your Manners

CURRICULUM

Mind Your Manners

Unit Overview

MIND YOUR MANNERS

  5th grade
  5 lessons
  This series of lessons will help students understand the importance of using correct manners by learning how to set a table complete with folded napkins and how to fold the American flag by reading, following, and giving oral multi-step directions.
  Strategies:  Write expository paragraphs, read and follow multi-step directions, give clear and concise directions
  This unit consists of five lessons. Students write expository paragraphs and analyze messages conveyed in various media as they view various media connected with flag etiquette.
  Handouts including graphic organizers
  Formative and Summative Assessment
  Glossary

Unit Plan: Lessons

This unit consists of twelve 50-minute class sessions. 

  Easy Etiquette Word HTML (with links to documents)
Ready, Set Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Mannerly Writing Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Mannerly Messages Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Performance Event Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

 

What purpose does being able to read and follow multi-step directions serve in our society?
 

Why is it important to be able to give clear and concise oral multi-step directions?
 

What are the essential elements of expository writing?
  What are media messages and some examples of each
 

Why is it important to be able to analyze messages conveyed in various media?
 

What are manners?
  What is the importance of manners?
 

Are manners the same all over the world?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

 Read and follow multi-step directions to complete a task.

 

R3D  Read and follow multi-step directions to complete a complex task. 

 

 Read, follow, and give multi-step directions to complete a complex task.

 

 Give clear and concise oral multi-step directions to complete a task.

 

 LS2B  Give clear and concise oral multi-step directions to complete a complex task. 

 

 Give clear and concise multi-step directions to complete a complex task.

 

 Write expository  paragraphs with a main idea, three or more supporting details, and a concluding sentence.

 

 W3C  Write expository paragraphs (emphasizing compare/contrast) with an effective topic sentence, three or more supporting sentences and a concluding sentence.  

 Write expository paragraphs (including cause and effect) with a main idea, three or more supporting details, and a controlling sentence.

 

 Identify and explain the intended message conveyed through oral and visual media.

 IL2A  Analyze messages conveyed in various media (e.g. videos, pictures, web-sites, artwork, plays, and/or news programs).

 Identify and explain viewpoints conveyed in various media (e.g., videos, pictures, web-sties, artwork, plays, and/or news programs).