Differentiating materials for specific student needs is necessary for a successful lesson and helps all students engage in the learning.1-- Review your unit plan on Rainbows. During your unit plan review focus on the following:Appropriate implementation and engagement strategiesAccommodations, resources, and materials that will allow for differentiationAssessment techniques that will be utilized during the unitFollowing the unit plan review, work with your mentor teacher to select one lesson to implement with a small group of students identified by your mentor teacher. Inform your mentor teacher that this lesson plan implementation will be videotaped.In 250-500 words, reflect on the unit plan review with your mentor teacher:Strengths of the unit planChanges you will make to the lesson based on feedback from your mentor teacher in the following areas:Implementation and engagement strategiesAccommodations, resources, and materials used for differentiationAssessment techniques2--Problem-Based Lesson PlanScience naturally incorporates multiple content areas. Consider language as a means of communication is a basic scientific process discussed in Topic 1. Mathematics is used to obtain measurements and graph data, and social studies provides a link between the application of science and society. When science curriculum is integrated across multiple content areas students experience more meaningful and relevant learning. A problem-centered approach where students investigate problems in which they are interested reinforces positive attitudes towards science and learning in general. For this assignment, create an integrated problem-based lesson plan for one of the lessons in your unit plan. Use the “COE Lesson Plan Template” to design a lesson that incorporates the following:Read - 1-16 of “How to Develop a Problem-Based Science Unit,” located on the VISTA website (2014).http://physics.gmu.edu/~hgeller/vistaPBL.pdfFeedback from your mentor teacher about appropriate strategies, accommodations, resources and materials that will allow for differentiated instruction to meet At least one additional content area standard that will be integrated into the lesson plan. (This content area will also be integrated into the lesson plans you will complete in Topic 7 for the benchmark assignment.)Following the lesson plan, write a 150-250 word reflection, provide a rationale for why you included the additional content area, and how it best integrates with problem-based instruction in the science content of your unit.

Essay Assignment 1: Documented Literary AnalysisundefinedYour literary analysis essay will be on the novel Sula by Toni Morrison. You can choose from any of the topics listed below (recommended) or explore further topics in the chapter on Sula, pp. X to Y in the book How to Write about Toni Morrison (linked here for your convenience). undefinedYour literary analysis should be between 2 ½ and 3 pages (600 to 750 words), not including the Works Cited page, should be double spaced in Times New Roman 12-point font and must meet the following criteria: undefinedA clearly articulated thesis that states, somewhere in your introduction, the assertion (position, interpretation) that your paper will proveAn introduction, a minimum of 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusionAt least two quotes from the novel itself that are integrated into your discussionAt least two citations of outside sources (such as literary criticism on the novel, preferably from articles from the MDC databases)Topic sentences that focus the discussion in the body paragraphsExamples, details, explanations in the body paragraphs that clearly support your thesisClear connections between ideas from paragraph to paragraph and within paragraphsProper MLA style format in the heading, in the in-text citations, and in the Works Cited page (see the template for the heading and margins in this lesson) Works Cited page includes articles from two sources and from the novel for a minimum of three total listed sources Standard usage, grammar, and mechanics undefinedIMPORTANT INFORMATION: undefinedYou will submit your final draft through the Turn-it-in drop box designated for this purpose in the course. Please be aware, that although Turn-it-in does allow for similarities for quotations up to 24% of your paper, any similarity above 24% is considered too high for an original paper and will be flagged as plagiarism. You can get help with your paper at any of the campus writing centers (see the link in the course with this information), and you can also receive online help via SmartThinking, the online tutoring service provided by the College. This service is available by clicking on SmartThinking in the left-hand menu bar of the course under Tools & Resources. undefinedChoose from the following topics: undefinedAnalyze the ending of the novel. What are the “circles of sorrow” that Nel experiences? Is the ending pessimistic, optimistic, or something else altogether? Nel and Sula’s friendship is central in the novel. What role does this friendship play in Nel and Sula’s lives and what point is Morrison making about the role of friendship in the expression and formation of identity?How do people who are intensely individualistic fare in the novel? Is it possible to break away from the values of the community and to be one’s own person? Answer the question with reference to at least two of the novel’s characters. How and by whom is love expressed in the novel? In what ways does the love in the novel ease the suffering of the characters? How is love not enough to diminish the suffering of the characters? Answer the question by discussing at least two characters in the novel. In what ways are the various characters in the novel alienated from the community? How do they cope with their loneliness, their preoccupations, and other effects of feeling alienated? Compare and contrast the journey of self-discovery for two characters in the book. Remember to take a position in your thesis that establishes the significance of the comparison and contrast. Contrast Nel’s relationship to her mother and Sula’s interaction with her mother. Remember to take a position in your thesis that establishes the significance of the contrast. Trace the use of three symbols in the novel and explain their connection to a theme in the novel. What does Shadrack’s character teach us about the effects of war and the ways mentally ill people can be ostracized from a community?Although no one has ever joined Shadrack on National Suicide Day, in the chapter titled “1941,” much of the town marches toward the tunnel where they have not been able to work, and, in their rage, the try to “kill, as best they could, the tunnel they were forbidden to build” (160). What is the significance of the event at the tunnel and the resulting deaths there?Zula