Class Background InformationThe objective of this assignment is to know your learners first before planning instruction for them. You should be collecting this information at the beginning of this class, but continue to add as you go along throughout the semester. The information you collect needs to be about individual students (be sure to protect their privacy) but you should also prepare an overall class summary. A draft of this assignment should be submitted in week 5. This complete assignment is due with the planning part of your unitat the end of the first 10 weeks.1. Who are you teaching? What is the school, grade level and number of students in the class? How would you describe the linguistic and ethnic diversity in your classroom? What are the characteristics of the some of the cultures of the background of students?2. What are the reading and writing abilities of your students? Have they had experiences connected to social studies? What types of writing have they had experience with? How much? How often? How has spelling and grammar been related to writing? How literature assignments have they completed? How books has the class read/used? 3. What skill levels do they have? Map skills? Time lines? Research skills? Otherskills related to social studies?4. How would you describe the developmental levels of the students? Are these students operating on pre-operational or concrete operational level? What specifically did you learn or observe that lead you to your conclusions? What implication does this have for your instruction?5. Do you have students with learning differences? How would you describe these? Do students go to a resource room or have the services of a resource teacher? What might you do to modify the curriculum to help support the diversity of learning? 6. What do you know about their learning styles? What are some of the attributes, abilities and interests of individual students? Do you see some evidence that students have strengths in some “intelligences” more than others?7. What social studies units have students already studied? (How much and whatsocial studies did students study during their previous grade?) What prior knowledge do they have about the specific topic you have chosen?8. Have students worked in groups? What do they understand about cooperative learning? Have they had experiences in prior grade levels? What skills will they need to develop to successfully complete your unit? Will they need to learn these skills before your unit? Or as a part of the unit? What are related aspects of the curriculum in other disciplines? (What might be related in science, math, music, art, P.E., writing, literature?)9. What experiences have students had with technology? What do they know already about the computer and programs that you might be using? How do you schedule the computer lab? Who is the lab instructor? How has the classroom teacher worked with the lab instructor in the past? Are there computers in the classroom that might be used? How will the students be scheduled to use these? (Rotational schedule? centers?