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Assignment 4.2: Collaborative Unit Plan or Library Programming Project – Partner Project
You will complete this assignment with your partner from Assignment 4.1. You will design a multiple lesson unit of study or a programming plan in which storytelling is a main objective or traditional literature is the major resource. This classroom-library unit or school-public library collaborative project will integrate content-area standards, Standards for the 21st-Century Learner (AASL) or other professional organization's standards, strands, and indicators, storytelling or traditional literature resources, and if appropriate, technology tools.
rubrics. Your lessonlesson/unit plan will wiki and may be linked to
For those conducting library programming plans, please use the rubric to note the areas where your plan will differ from the school curriculum-based unit plan. For example, your plan will include a publicity plan.
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Assignment 4.2: Collaborative Unit Plan or Library Programming Project – Partner Project
content-area standards, S4LStandards for the 21st-Century Learner (AASL) or other professional organization's standards, strands,
Follow the assignment sheet directions and align your work with the A.4.1 and 4.2 rubrics. Your lesson plan will be posted to your wiki and linked to the course wiki as well.
For those conducting library programming plans, please use the rubric to note the areas where your plan will differ from the school curriculum-based unit plan. For example, your plan will include a publicity plan.

Assignment 4.2: Collaborative Unit Plan or Library Programming Project – Partner Project
of study or a programming plan in which
Follow the assignment sheet directions and align your work with the A.4.1 and 4.2 rubrics. Your lesson plan will be posted to your wiki and linked to the course wiki as well.
For those conducting library programming plans, please use the rubric to note the areas where your plan will differ from the school curriculum-based unit plan. For example, your plan will include a publicity plan.

Each class member will form a partnership with a classmate who is teaching or intends to work at a particular grade level and serves in a different capacity in a school or library environment. For example, a school librarian will partner with a classroom teacher, or a public librarian will partner with a school librarian. This assignment is part of your collaborative unit plan or programming plan project.
You will investigate resources in multiple formats to support your lesson/programming plan. You will select the best based on cultural authenticity and appropriateness for your unit/programming plan. Annotate these resources and post your annotations to your wiki.
CREATE a link to
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Collaborative Conversations Page

Assignment 4.1: Resource Development - Partner Project
Each class member will form a partnership with a classmate who is teaching or intends to work at a particular grade level and serves in a different capacity in a school or library environment. For example, a school librarian will partner with a classroom teacher, or a public librarian will partner with a school librarian. This assignment is part of your collaborative unit plan or programming plan project.
appropriateness for youyour unit/programming plan.
CREATE link to another wiki page where you will engage in collaboration for this project. Document your collaborative work (at least in part using the Wikispaces threaded discussion tool). Link other documentation to the collaboration page. Make sure Dr. M. and G.A. Miranda have access to your work.
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You will complete this assignment with your partner from Assignment 4.1. You will design a multiple lesson unit of study in which storytelling is a main objective or traditional literature is the major resource. This classroom-library unit or school-public library collaborative project will integrate content-area standards, S4L standards, strands, and indicators, storytelling or traditional literature resources, and if appropriate, technology tools.
Follow the assignment sheet directions and align your work with the A.4.1 and 4.2 rubrics. Your lesson plan will be posted to your wiki and linked to the course wiki as well.
unit plan. For example, your plan will include a publicity plan.
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Collaborative Conversations Page
Document your collaborative work (at least in part using the Wikispaces threaded discussion tool) on the Collaboration Page. Link other documentation to that page as well. Make sure Dr. M. and G.A. Miranda have access to your work.
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Resources Page
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Your lesson or programming plan will be located here. Dr. M. will give you feedback directly on this wiki page.
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Additional Page #4 linked to the Programming Plan for a public library publicity plan.

Casanova, Mary. The Hunter: A Chinese Folktale. Illus. by Ed Young. 2000. 32p. Atheneum. $17.99 (978-0689829062)
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Collaborative UnitUnit/Progamming Plan
Additional Page #4 linked to the Programming Plan for a public library publicity plan.

You will investigate resources in multiple formats to support your lesson/programming plan. You will select the best based on cultural authenticity and appropriateness for you unit/programming plan. Annotate these resources and post your annotations to your wiki.
CREATE link to another wiki page where you will engage in collaboration for this project. Document your collaborative work (at least in part using the Wikispaces threaded discussion tool). Link other documentation to the collaboration page. Make sure Dr. M. and G.A. Miranda have access to your work.
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Collaborative Conversations Page
Page #2 (this page)
Your resources will be listed and annotated here. Dr. M. will give you feedback directly on your wiki page.
As a model:
Casanova, Mary. The Hunter: A Chinese Folktale. Illus. by Ed Young. 2000. 32p. Atheneum. $17.99 (978-0689829062)
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Collaborative Unit Plan

CREATE link to another wiki page where you will engage in collaboration for this project. Document your collaborative work (at least in part using the Wikispaces threaded discussion tool). Link other documentation to the collaboration page. Make sure Dr. M. and G.A. Miranda have access to your work.
Collaborative Conversations Page
Spring 2015
If you choose to use resources that you have already annotated in A.3.0, you will copy and paste the bibliographic entry only onto your A.4.1 Resource Development page.
You will NOT copy and paste the annotation. Instead, you will provide a link to the wiki page on which the annotation is posted.
Your A.4.1 work will meet ALL of the other criteria listed on this rubric.
Thank you.
Your resources will be listed and annotated here. Dr. M. will give you feedback directly on your wiki page.
Spring 2015:
How to indicate a resource from A.3.0 Text Set Project
As a model:
Casanova, Mary. The Hunter: A Chinese Folktale. Illus. by Ed Young. 2000. 32p. Atheneum. $17.99 (978-0689829062)
Clayton, Sally Pomme, and Sophie Herxheimer. Rama and Sita: Path of Flames. Illus. 2010. 32p. Frances Lincoln Children's. Look up price and ISBN on Amazon.com.Collaborative Unit Plan

Inspirations:
From the first time I read the story "Li Chi Slays the Serpent," I knew it was a story I wanted to tell. The story is in an anthology of Folktales from Around the World edited by Jane Yolen (1986).
background research and retelling the story as authentically as possible.
Early Research:
I looked for picture book versions of this story and did not find any. (I have submitted my retelling for publication to several publishers who have soundly rejected it. One wrote that the story is too violent for U.S. children. Really?)