If you go back and look at the template you had to put in grade/subject. what grade and subject? Also nothing was not filled in on the left side which is established goals. Thank you

Stage 1-Desired Results

Summary

Name:

Grade/Subject:

Length of Unit:

Writing and Communication Skills

Education

Two weeks

Established Goals

Transfer

· The main aim of the unit is to give students the ability to read, listen and write carefully.

· On completing the unit on writing and communication skills, students will be able to communicate by expressing their ideas successfully and effectively using their writing.

· They will also be able to write their work in a way that is well organized and easily readable

· On completing the unit students should be able to successfully use the academic discourse conventions to communicate.

· Students should be able to read analytically and critically without experiencing any difficulties.

· The unit should also enable students to apply visual, oral as well as written skills of communicating and academic discourse conventions to solve the challenges that are posed by the disciplines they encounter.

· Students should be able to extract the desired information from any written text, spoken or visual file.

Meaning

UNDERSTANDINGS

· From the Unit, Students will be able to understand that learning should not be done blindly but should have a specific goal that it should enable them to accomplish.

· Further, they will understand that any learning they do has its importance and they should study it closely enough to establish the need for grasping its content.

· An understanding that different environments, subjects or people require different communication skills to successfully deal with. They should be able to choose the most suitable technique to approach a situation effectively.

· Students will understand that people understand differently and their communication should be universal enough to be understood by a wide range of audience.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

· Students with the knowledge of writing and communication skills will be able to ask themselves the most suitable communication techniques they should use to handle a given situation successfully.

· Before engaging in reading a text, listening or viewing a file or person, students should ask themselves what the theme is, build their assumptions and compare their inferences with the contents as they keep interacting with their subject.

· Students will be able to determine the facial and body expressions required to make a communication environment comfortable and effective in terms of understanding.

Acquisition

· From the unit, students will know that the way they present their information be it written or spoken determines the first reception it gets from the readers and viewers.

· They will also know that they should study the expectations of a presentation well enough before engaging so that they meet its respective requirements.

· Students would be able to always remember that they should select their skills according to the environment that faces them.

· Studying the unit will help students understand that people have different abilities to communicate which will enable them to understand many people who have difficulties in communicating.

· Students will acquire effective and successful reading as well writing skills.

· The unit will enable students to present their ideas successfully in a way that they will be understandable to their audience.

· Students will be able to differentiate the strength of ideas hence be able to establish the best order to present them for better scores.

· Students will be skilled in critical thinking and analysis making them better in solving problems they face in their studies as well as lives.

· Students will be able to identify the skills that will work best for a given type of presentation acquiring them more credit and scores.

· Students will also be excellent I using facial expressions and body language to make successful points and communications.