ENL1W Unit 6: Make It Better

How can we use language to solve a real problem in our school or community? Teams find a real problem, research it with reliable sources, surveys and interviews, design a solution, then write proposals to real decision-makers and pitch to a panel. An original model proposal runs through the whole unit.

Assessment of learning: a written proposal (individual) and a pitch presentation (team, assessed individually), with rubrics.

Lessons

1. Problem-Finding Walk
2. Choose Your Problem
3. Research Questions and Sources
4. Interviews and Surveys
5. Ideate and Prototype
6. The Persuasion Toolkit
7. Proposal Structure
8. Draft the Proposal
9. Revise and Edit
10. Pitch Craft
11. Dragons' Den Showcase
12. Reflect and Act

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative tasks and rubrics

Built for the 2023 Ontario Grade 9 English curriculum (ENL1W, de-streamed), and easy to adapt for any Grade 9 English class.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.