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Purpose and Curricular Connections
In this Learning Experience, students research chocolate as part of a study of plants and the Rain Forest, and create new chocolate products and poetry.
The primary purpose of Chocolate Fever is to challenge students to create new chocolate products and learning games. See Student Work.
This project ties into the study of plants and the Rain Forest.
Standards
ELA Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
Performance Indicator: Speaking and writing
Presenting information in oral and written format.
Use the writing process to produce a well-constructed informational text.
Performance Indicator: Listening and Reading
Read a variety of literature of different genres: poems, articles, stories; and works of fiction and non-fiction.
Understand the literary elements of setting, character, plot, theme, and compare to other works and their own lives.
Use inference and deduction to understand text.
ELA Standard 2: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
Performance Indicator: Speaking and Writing
Present personal responses to literature that make reference to plot, character, ideas, vocabulary and text structure.
Create their own stories, poems, and songs using the elements of literature they have read and appropriate vocabulary.
ELA Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
Performance Indicator: Listening and Reading
Recognize that the criteria that one uses to analyze and evaluate anything depends on one’s point of view and purpose of analysis.
ELA Standard 4: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
Performance Indicator: Listening and Speaking
Listen attentively and recognize when it is appropriate for them to speak.
Take turns speaking and respond to others’ ideas in conversations on familiar topics.
Recognize the kind of interaction appropriate for different circumstances, such as story hour, group discussions, and one-on-one conversations.
Performance Indicator: Reading and Writing
Exchange friendly notes, cards and letters with friends to keep in touch and to commemorate special events.