Task #1: Reading Enrichment Unit

March 6, 2015: 8th grade Media Production, Durham Middle School

Digital Resource
Audience
Length of
Session
Lesson
Objectives

AASL Standards

ISTE Standards
for Teachers
Activation

Instruction

Website, You Can Survive High School; Survey, Did You

Know?; Resource Listly, High School Survival Kit
8th grade, middle school students (rising 9 th graders)
30 minutes
Learners will be able to:
1. Listen to and ask questions about a book talk on Heather
Brewers YA novel series, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod.
2. Identify, using an online survey, and discuss knowledge of
vampires and surviving high school.
3. Read and comprehend stories from Chicken Soup for the
Teenage Soul.
4. Write an age-appropriate letter to rising 8 th graders.
Standard I: Teaching for Learning
Elements:
1.1 Knowledge of learners and learning
1.2 Effective and knowledgeable teacher
1.4 Integration of 21st century skills and learning standards
1. Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
2. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and
assessments
Instructor will present a book talk about the YA novel 8th grade
Bites, the first book in Heather Brewers series The Chronicles
of Vladimir Tod.
1. After listening to the book talk, learners will access an online
survey (using a QR code printed on handout) and answer
questions about vampire and surviving high school.

Rdg Enrich Lesson

QR codes.docx

2. Learners will discuss survey results and apply their answers

to a discussion about vampire literature and their feelings
about going to high school next year.
3. Learners will read a story from Chicken Soup for the
Teenage Soul about Charles Shultz and overcoming mediocrity.
Chicken Soup for the
Teenage Soul.docx

Assessment

Learners will write a letter to rising 8th graders giving them

advice about being the leaders at the school next year and

how to prepare for high school.

Closing
Learners will receive a handout with QR codes to use to access
an online resource list to use over the summer and next year
in high school.
Presenter: Amy Vickrey