Instructional Planning Guide -- Lesson 2

Instructional Planning Guide -- Lesson 2

Term 4, 2008-2009 School Year
Unit Title: Sentenced! Recognizing and Correcting Crimes Against Grammar!
Grade Level: Seventh Grade

Students: This unit has been prepared for mainstream classes of seventh grade English. The students have been working on writing skills all year, doing various writing assignments in class and on the MYAccess program. We have briefly studied some aspects of sentence structure and variety, including review of parts of speech, but we are still seeing many errors and weaknesses in sentence composition.

Goals

Cognitive:
2) Students will identify and use phrases, and dependent and independent clauses.

Social/Affective:
1) Students will work together as partners, small groups, and as a class to learn about sentences.
2) Students will come to understand the importance of creating complete, correct, understandable sentences.

Linguistic:
1) Terms will be clarified for students, including terms for parts of speech and other terms used when discussing sentences.

Assessment

Cognitive: Students will fill in the missing blanks on prepared notes as they watch a PowerPoint. They will take a quiz on what they have learned so far, using their notes.

Social/Affective: Students help each other make sure they have their notes filled in from last time and this time. (The social/affective element is addressed as photos of the students themselves are used and example sentences use people and places they know as topics.)

Linguistic: Students will fill in the missing blanks on prepared notes as they watch a PowerPoint. They will take a quiz on what they have learned so far, using their notes.

Sequence of Tasks

Student Work
Students view another PowerPoint and fill in blanks on the prepared notes.
Students individually take a quiz on which they may use their notes.


Teacher Work
1) The teacher again dons the black robe (everytime we talk about sentences).
2) The teacher has prepared and presents more PowerPoint presentation about sentences.
(Before showing the second segment, the teacher scrolls quickly through the slides from the first-- yesterday's -- presentation.)
3) The teacher has also prepared notes with blanks for the students to fill in.
(Important: The teacher has made sure that any students who were absent last time have the notes and have been able to fill them in with the help of students who already have the notes. )

4) The teacher has prepared a quiz on the first two lessons (PowerPoint Presentations) about sentences. Students may use their notes while taking the quiz.
5) The teacher reads through the quizzes to see who is and isn't understanding.

Materials
Computer, projector, and screen
Teacher-prepared PowerPoint (See PowerPoint and Notes at http://caveassessment.pbwiki.com/
Teacher-prepared notes on the PowerPoint -- PowerPoint, Part 2
Teacher-prepared quiz on the first two sections of the PowerPoint. (See http://caveassessment.pbwiki.com/ Quizzes, Tests, Practices for Sentenced, files, Quiz on Sent. 1 & 2)