Unit 1 Plan - Introduction to ESLDO
Unit Title: Introduction to ESLDO
Time Hours: 15 hours
Topics:
- Introductions and Building Online Presence
- School Rules/Expectations
- How to Use Moodle
- High School in Canada vs. High School in Home Country
Overall Expectations:
Listening and Speaking:
1. demonstrate the ability to understand, interpret, and evaluate spoken English for a variety of purposes;
2. use speaking skills and strategies to communicate in English for a variety of classroom and social purposes;
Reading:
2. use a variety of reading strategies throughout the reading process to extract meaning from texts;
3. use a variety of strategies to build vocabulary;
4. locate and extract relevant information from written and graphic texts for a variety of purposes.
Writing:
2. organize ideas coherently
in writing;
3. use correctly the
conventions of written
English appropriate for this
level, including grammar,
usage, spelling, and
punctuation;
Social-Cultural Competence
and Media Literacy:
3. demonstrate knowledge of
and adaptation to the Ontario
education system;
4. demonstrate an
understanding of, interpret,
and create a variety of media
texts.
Unit Goals:
- Students will be able to learn about each other and build community and individual presence online
- Students will be able
to understand and
follow The Erindale
Academy School and
Classroom rules
- Students will be able
to properly access and
use all the tools on
Moodle
- Students will be able
to explain through
written and verbal
work how High
school in Canada is
both different and
similar to High School
in their home country
Accommodation for ELL
- Include
visuals/visual
cues
- Video Subtitles
- Graphic
Organizers
- Chunking of
tasks
- Oral
explanations
- Frequent breaks
- Provide sentence
structures
- Read aloud
-Technological Aids
Assessment FOR Learning:
- Self-Assessment
- Peer-Assessment
Assessment AS Learning:
- Daily Quizzes
- Breakout rooms
- Observation Charts
- Journal Entry
Assessment OF Learning:
- Create their own PowerPoint (or any other form of presentation) comparing High school in Canada to High school in their home country