NBE3U Independent Study and Final

Students choose a teacher-approved book by a First Nations, Métis or Inuit author early in the semester, complete check-ins, write a comparative essay connecting it to a course text and lead a seminar. Review lessons cover sight-text strategies, course review stations, timed practice and a portfolio of growth. The final evaluation includes an original sight text written for this course, “Maker: Unknown,” with analysis questions, essay prompts on course texts, a rubric and a marking guide.

Assessment of learning: the culminating task (part of classroom work) and the final exam (25%, written in the exam period), with rubrics and a marking guide.

This part of the course is free to download and use with your classes.

Lessons

1. Choose Your Book
2. ISU Check-ins
3. Comparative Essay Workshop
4. ISU Seminar
5. Reading the Unseen
6. Course Review Stations
7. Practice and Conferences
8. Looking Back

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 to 18 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 model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• The culminating task with rubrics, and the final evaluation with an original sight text, essay prompts, a rubric and a marking guide
• A unit overview

Part of the free complete NBE3U course.