A unit plan from a standard, with the standard open beside it
Lesson 1 of 6 · Planning
1 · Learn the move · RTO. Role · Task · Output
The fastest unit plan a model produces is the one that drifts from the standard by day three. The fix is to paste the standard itself, word for word, and make the model quote it back at every point where the plan claims to meet it. Role: a curriculum designer for your grade and subject. Task: a unit of a stated length that builds to the standard's verb (analyze, construct, compare), not to a topic. Output: a day-by-day table with, for each day, the objective, the one thing students produce, and the clause of the standard it serves, quoted. Then you read the plan with the standard open. Where the quoted clause does not match what the day does, the day is wrong, and that judgment is yours to make, not the model's to assert.
Role: a curriculum designer for seventh-grade ELA. Task: a three-week unit that builds to this standard, pasted word for word: [paste the standard]. Output: a table, one row per day, with columns OBJECTIVE, WHAT STUDENTS PRODUCE, CLAUSE OF THE STANDARD SERVED (quoted, not paraphrased), and MATERIALS I NEED TO HAVE. Build to the standard's verb, not to the topic. Where a day does not serve a quoted clause, say so rather than inventing a link. Do not say the unit is aligned; show me the clauses and I will judge that.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
A seventh-grade ELA teacher at Larkspur Middle has a new novel and a standard about citing textual evidence to support analysis. The first draft the model makes is fifteen days of good activities, four of which never ask for evidence. Because every day carries a quoted clause, the four stand out in a minute: their clause column reads 'none; this day builds background'. The teacher keeps two of the four, cuts two, and moves the evidence work earlier. The unit is hers; the table took four minutes.
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