1. Jungle Book
Unit Portfolio Presentation

2. Unit Summary
Meeting Mowgli in the jungle! Students use the Visual Ranking tool and oral presentations to prioritize and rank the good things that Mowgli enjoys while living in the jungle. They compare the Jungle Book with other similar stories or movies. They also analyze the factors affecting Mowgli’s safety in jungle using Seeing Reason tool. They reflect about the safety of the jungle for humans through a creative writing activity. Finally, they use Showing Evidence Tool, to collect evidences and decide where Mowgli should live. They write a persuasive letter to the village Sarpanch communicating their argument. The Jungle Book show is held as a culminating activity where the students exhibit their work and debate as what Mowgli’s future should be.

3. Curriculum Framing Questions
Essential Question
How do my surroundings affect me?
Unit Questions
Can we live in jungle?
Can animals take the place of family?
Content Questions
Why did mother wolf decide to keep Mowgli as her own child?
Why did Sher Khan want to kill Mowgli?
Why did the villagers not accept Mowgli?

4. Helping them to analyze perspectives
This project will help my students develop 21st century skills and Higher-Order thinking by:
Helping them to analyze perspectives
Classify reasons and develop inductive reasoning
Compare and construct support which will lead to development of analysis,
Synthesis and evaluation skills
Investigate, question and pose problems, to make decisions individually and interdependently Think flexibly

5. My Goals for the Course
Find ways to get my students more interested in reading and listening
Learn about different kinds of technology my students and I can use
Share ideas with other teachers

6. My Goals for students
Understanding the need for humans to live together as a society, considering animals as friends and allies
Organizing thoughts to understand situations and constructing arguments to drive home individual opinion

7. Request for Feedback
Different stories I could find for my students to listen to in a classroom, to develop their interest in reading
Ideas for helping students take more responsibility for their own learning
Suggestions for helping students hone creative writing skills