Instructional Planning Guide -- Lesson 3

Instructional Planning Guide -- Lesson 3

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:
For lesson #3) Students will identify and begin to correct sentence fragments, run-ons, and comma-splices.


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: Teacher will informally assess as students join in discussion and answer questions during the PowerPoint presentation.
Individual students will take a quiz on subjects and predicates, and dependent and independent clauses.

Social/Affective: Students will again help their partners and others around them to make sure they all have the notes pages filled in.

Linguistic: Teacher will informally assess as students join in discussion and answer questions during the PowerPoint presentation.

Sequence of Tasks

Student Work
Individual students will take a quiz on subjects and predicates, and dependent and independent clauses. They will be able to use their notes.
Students will view and participate in discussion and answer questions about a PowerPoint prepared by the teacher.
For part of the PowerPoint, a student volunteer becomes the class scribe to edit the PowerPoint, adding a class-generated list of reasons why correct, clear sentences are important.
Students will also fill in the blanks on prepared notes.

Teacher Work
1) The teacher will use a prepared quiz from READ180 materials to check student understanding of subjects and verbs, dependent and independent clauses. I combined and shortened two quizzes from the READ180 materials for struggling readers and writers. *
2) The teacher will prepare and present a PowerPoint focusing on common problems with sentences.
3) The teacher has prepared notes with blanks for the students to fill in.

*NOTE: The students will be able to retake this quiz.

Materials
Quiz -- (See http://caveassessment.pbwiki.com Folder: Quizzes, Tests, Practices for Sentenced, Files, 2 Subjects and Predicates, and depend and indepent. )
Teacher-Prepared PowerPoint and notes -- PowerPoint, Part 3
Computer, projector, and screen