Week 3 Assignment #2: Stage 1 Design- Writing

Stage 1- Desired Results
Established Goals: CCS Standards: Writing        W.6.2.  Students will be able to write texts that are informative and explanatory in order to examine a topic and express different ideas, concepts, and information through the use of relevant content
Understandings: Students will understand that… ·      How their ideas and arguments can be explained and supported by other sources   ·      There are sources that are not credible and that they will need to utilize sources that are credible ·      There are different ways evidence can be presented in their writing ·      If they are using information from another source, it must be cited	Essential Questions: ·      What is the purpose of the text you are writing? ·      What are different resources you can use to find information pertaining to the big idea of the text? ·      What information from the source supports what you are writing about? ·      How will you know these sources are reliable? How will you cite them?
Students will know…        ·      Where they can find different resources ·       How to research relevant sources ·      The difference between sources that are credible and ones that are not	Students will be able to…     ·      Determine if a source is a credible one ·      Back up their own ideas/arguments with evidence and examples from other resources