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Goal

My aim to teach in a way that brings multiple subject areas together while engaging and challenging students daily. My goal is for students to master middle school language arts standards while simultaneously incorporating science and social studies standards into their daily reading and writing. I want students to have the opportunity not only to learn about the world around them, but also the history that came before them. 

What will be done with my students

Each year I strive to incorporate and embed more and more of our grade level science and social studies content into language arts instruction. I have reorganized my lessons so that I can teach by thematic units, rather than by weekly lessons. This has given me the opportunity to incorporate science and social studies content that is being taught in other parts of the day. These units of study are for all middle school language arts classes, and my hope is to add new materials each year to the units of study. The overall theme of the year has shifted away from route memorization and random fictional stories and more towards how students can make a difference in the world. They do this through units that cover conservation, local Florida history, American history, the Civil Rights movement, the Holocaust, Immigration and much more!
 

Benefits to my students

Students benefit because they are able to truly focus in on specific topics for longer periods of time and are able to extend their learning in many ways. Students are able to connect what their learning across multiple platforms, and dive deeper into content material. We can focus on the process of Close Reading in language arts, while learning about fleeing Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, and at the same time also be reading a novel in small groups that is based in the same time period in history. Students become very comfortable in the material being used to teach because the same content is used repeatedly through the unit with different assignments. This deepens learning and helps students build confidence.
 

Budget Narrative

I would like to be able to add to my teaching resources mainly in the areas of available reading materials. I would like to add small book groups within each unit of study as well as some other short stories that correspond to the already existing content material I currently use. 

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