Task #1, Week #4 Reflection on Stage 1, Backward Design

I identified the desired results from the standards listed for the given lessons.  With these standards in mind, I then focused on the "understandings."  Keeping in mind what specific tasks I wanted students to be able to complete, the understandings are the ideas and topics they would need to-well- understand in order to do so.  So I asked myself, for example, which tasks or information and details from the text, would the students need to understand in order to perform the given standards? Lastly, once those "understandings" were identified, I needed to reflect and think of which questions would prompt them to finding these answers.  The essential questions would be what steers the students in the right direction to come up with the desired understandings that they could then, apply to the long term learning targets.

The knowledge and skills the students would then acquire would be found in the given list of "Long Term Learning Targets." This would be the skills and activities that the student will learn in the given situation or classroom, but apply them beyond the class.  These tasks are those that a student should develop through their schooling career, and after.  The more realistic the tasks and information taken from a lesson, the more engaged and understanding a student will be, because it will have a true value to their actual lives.