Summary of Website

Section I
Name:Danielle Liberto
Date: March 17th
Mood: Frustrated and unsure

Section II
URL: http://www.salemweb.com/emorial/index.shtml

Grade Level(s): 11th grade

New York State Standard:
Standard ELA1.11.RE1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

Key Idea: Not Listed

Performance Indicator:
Performance Indicator ELA1.11.RE1.05:
Students analyze and synthesize information from different sources, making connections and showing relationships to other texts, ideas, and subjects and to the world at large.

Section III
Purpose of web site:
1.) Students will explore the tombstones and analyze the quotes that each character has engraved on their actual tomb.

2.) Students can study real witches that exist in Salem today, and compare them to the accused witches in the book.

3.) Students can explore the definition of a witch.

4.) Trace the events that happened in Salem's history and relate it to the Crucible.

Section IV
Lesson Objectives at each Level of Bloom's Taxonomy:

KNOWLEDGE: Students will (list) the characters on the site that were in The Crucible.

COMPREHENSION: Students will (interpret) the quotes found on each tombstone.

APPLICATION: Students will (collect)data and compose their own short story surrounding this topic.

ANALYSIS: Students will (examine) the quotes on each of the witches tombstones.

SYNTHESIS: Students will (organize) the dates in which the events took place in Salem into a time line.

EVALUATION: Students will (choose) a witch to research.

Section V
Assessment Strategies (How will you know that the kids have learned from this site?) Students will: (Construct) a time line that will (organize) the dates of the events that took place in Salem, Mass for 1 month. Students may choose the month. I will monitor their work in class and I will have the students print out their finished copy.

Works Cited:

1. Conant, Roger (1995). Salem Massachusetts. Retrieved March 18, 2008, from http://www.salemweb.com/
Web site: http://www.salemweb.com/

2. University @ Buffalo, (2008). NYlearns.org. Retrieved March 18, 2008, from http://www.nylearns.org/

What I know about Copyright

A Reflection: David Rose's Podcast

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Name: Danielle Liberto
Date: February 28
Hour: 8:51am
Your Mood: Relaxed

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Chapter 3 - “Why We Need Flexible Instructional Media”

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Chaper 4 - “What is Universal Design for Learning” -

1. Create things that have the full range of the users included. Applies to the ways in which we set appropriate goals for each student. Allow multiple ways for students to succeed. The methosds teacher create should be varies so that most or all students can succeed.


Chapter 5 approaches goals - using UDL to set clear goals

1. Motivation is the key to acheiving goals. Students are often very unmotivated to reach goals that are set.


Chapter 6 - materials and methods for reaching goals

1. Teachers must highlight critical features for students so that they succeeed. Backgrund knowledge is the key to building a curriculum.


Chapter 7 - focuses on assessment

1. accurate assesment requires teachers to not shut out any students.


Chapter 8 - “Making Universal Design for Learning a Reality.”

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1. debenture-

1. A certificate or voucher acknowledging a debt.

2. An unsecured bond issued by a civil or governmental corporation or agency and backed only by the credit standing of the issuer.

3. A customhouse certificate providing for the payment of a drawback.

2. mameluke-

A member of a former military caste, originally composed of slaves from Turkey, that held the Egyptian throne from about 1250 until 1517 and remained powerful until 1811.

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