Backward Design
Healthy community
Title: How does a healthy community look like? Subject: English
Topic: Healthy community Grade: 7 Designer: laila
Established Goals:
Talking and listening:
• Communicate in simple formal and informal situations, expressing ideas and opinions clearly.
• Vary strategies for talking and listening according to different familiar purposes and audiences.
• Speak on familiar topics for different purposes, selecting language, grammar and vocabulary to suit the audience and context.
• Present a short speech on a familiar topic fluently and in a way that engages the audience. …show more content…
Read and respond to a range of written and visual texts produced for a range of purposes and audiences.
• Identify how sentences or paragraphs are organized to present information.
• Find specific information in a range of simple factual texts.
• Use an English dictionary to check the meaning and uses of new words.
• Recognize how the grammatical features of a text contribute to it meaning, for example, the use of reference links, word chains, adverbial and adjectival phrases.
• Discuss texts with peers in order to refine their own understanding.
• Explain the ideas, information and points of view in particular texts.
Read closely, analyze and re-read more challenging texts for deeper understanding and appreciation.
Writing:
• Plan, draft, and edit when writing imaginative and factual texts that relate to their own experiences and interests.
Write clearly for different familiar purposes and audiences, using appropriate language.
• Use grammar and punctuation correctly.
• Use spelling conventions and strategies in spelling and word building …show more content…
• What is a healthy meal?
• Is leisure time part of being healthy?
• How to write an information report about a healthy community?
Students will know…. Students will be able to…
• Ancient sports
• First Olympics
• Victorian housing (life for poor & life for rich) & health.
• Health facts
• Health misconceptions. • Compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy communities.
• Categorize healthy food (protein, carbohydrates .etc)
• Read texts about health
• Write an information report about “how does a healthy community look like”.
• Interpret the food pyramid Performance Task:
Students are to choose one of the following articles “There is more to orange than vitamin C”, “Watermelon: nutritious, delicious and refreshing”, “can stress causes weight gain”, “cost of living” students are to prepare a presentation of the article they read and present it to their classmates.
Key Criteria:
-Cover all important points mentioned in the article.
- Presentation supported by details and examples.
- Visual aids
- Presenter is using her own words
Other Evidence:
• Writing task (write an information report about health and leisure).
• Labeling an