Instructional Planning Guide -- Lesson 5

Instructional Planning Guide -- Lesson 5

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:
Goal of Lesson 5 ) Students will know and use several ways to correct sentence fragments, run-ons, and comma-splices, and will be aware of sentence problems and possible corrections as they write an essay for a district writing test on MYAccess.
This period is intended as assessment of overall writing, and of sentence awareness and self-corrections.

Social/Affective:
1) Students spend the period taking an individual test. Writing the essay links to their interests because they get to select a topic from their own experiences.

Linguistic:
1) Students have an opportunity to show what they know about writing a personal essay.

Assessment

Cognitive: The teacher will check student essays for correctness or self-correction of sentences.

Social/Affective: Students are writing about self-selected topics from their own lives.

Linguistic: The teacher will check student essays for correctness or self-correction of sentences.

Sequence of Tasks

Student Work
Students are writing an essay (on MYAccess) about an incident in their own lives. They are to do their own planning, writing, revising, and editing within the hourl
Concerning students for whom time for testing is required to be (or should be ) extended, I talked with them individually, proving extra time for them to complete the work.

Teacher Work
The prompt is already posted on MYAccess by the district. I prepare a copy of the prompt for each student, with a reminder of log-in information, and other suggestions, with space for notes or planning.
After students take the test, I will check them (especially those of students who struggle with creating correct sentences) watching for improvement.

Materials
computer student lab with access to the internet
handout with a copy of the prompt, other information and reminders, and room for notes and planning