Technology Tools/ Resources and Rationale This unit will not focus on or feature the use of technology very

strongly. While I do believe that being able to use technology efficiently and wisely is essential skill in the 21st century, I also recognize that my sixth graders are not used to using it in the classroom. Since this is the first unit of the year, I have to intensively scaffold not only the content aspects of this unit, but also the procedural aspects that will allow us all to work together in this classroom all year. For this unit, I have chosen to focus on building teamwork skills and other basic procedural classroom knowledge. However, I will be incorporating technology as a main focus in the next unit. Technology will be present through the use of GoogleDocs to write and revise memoirs and to write and revise statements on memoirs, surprise, and unexpected moments in texts. We will be using laptops for this so that the students and teacher can easily track the progress of their growth and revisions. This will be essential to assessing student progress at the end of the unit.