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Piskel Lesson 1 — Promise + Micro Plot
Run the current student lesson with its existing evidence, resources, and submission route.
Daily Learning Contract
Topic: Animated story structure
Objective: Students will explain how a clear beginning, visible change, and ending make a short animation understandable before production begins.
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Demonstration of learning: Promise-in-action statement and completed five-part plot diagram that identify the planned beginning, visible change, and ending.
Use what is already in Canvas
Student-facing task: Superhero Promise. Keep the current student page, requirements, points, and rubric as the source of truth.
- Animation Unit guide
- finished comic
- Plot Diagram copy
- hero materials
Before students begin
- Open the student task in Student View and test the exact sign-in, link, file, or submission path students will use.
- Prepare only the listed existing materials; do not require a personal account or a new unlisted product.
- Keep the current student page available as the accessible and absence route.
Lesson flow
- 1. Launch: Put the purpose in front of students: Students will choose one visible promise/action and plan its beginning, change, and end.
- 2. Model: Use one current example, tool, or teacher resource before students begin animated storytelling.
- 3. Guide: Complete the first decision or step together; conference before students commit to a direction.
- 4. Build: Students complete the existing Canvas task. Do not add a second product or change the current rubric.
- 5. Check + next step: Verify this evidence before students leave: Promise-in-action statement and completed five-part plot diagram.
Scaffolds and teacher decisions
Keep the student lesson's bilingual tabs, word bank, models, and current support route in view while students work. Reduce the number of examples or provide a partially completed planning frame before reducing the evidence. If a student needs an alternate format, preserve the same named evidence and use the current rubric or teacher judgment rather than adding a hidden requirement.
Close the loop
Use the current Canvas submission for grading. Record the specific misconception, access issue, or revision need you observed; use it to choose the next lesson's launch rather than creating a duplicate exit assignment.