Week 6 ELA Writing Lesson Plan

Week 6: Stage 3 Activity-based lesson adjusted to Common Core. Backward Design Stage 3 ELA Writing Assignment: 5th grade Writing a short story on you hero. AIM Questions: 1. What learning objectives/main ideas do students need to know (max 3) • Students will be able to write an informative/explanatory text to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. 2. What common core skills Will be introduced or reinforced during this lesson? 3. Which content area standards are addressed in this lesson? • Students will be able to write and complete a cohesive story in order to explain why and who their hero is. 4. What academic and content specific vocabulary is introduced in this lesson? • Students will us specific vocabulary in order to describe who and why their hero is their hero. 5. What materials (e.g. Map, Song, and activity sheet) will I present to students? • Students will use provided research materials, (library/internet) to get information on their hero. 6. How will I open the lesson (motivation) and capture student interest? • The lesson would be opened by asking the students to write a short paragraph finishing this sentence, “A hero to me is …..?” 7. What additional individual/team/full case activities will I use to help students discover what they need to learn (suggest three)? If these are group activities, how will students groups be organized? • Students will pair up in groups of two and read each other's papers. • Students will give brief presentation to class on who their peer chose as a hero and why. • Students will then grade their peers papers based on a rubric given. 8. How will I differentiate instruction with multiple entry points for diverse learners? • Due to the fact that I will be using verbal group activities, hands on group activities, individual writing activities, and drawing activities, students with diverse learning capabilities will in some way learn the original goal at hand. 9. What H.O.T. (Higher Order Thinking) questions will I ask to engage students in analysis and discussion? • Who is your hero and why • Why did your peer chose their hero • Describe their hero • Why is their hero important to them 10. How will I assess student mastery of the skills, concepts, and content taught in this lesson? • Students mastery of the skills, concepts, and content taught in the lesson will be assed through vocabulary tests, short answer quizzes, participation in group and class activities, and their hero presentations. 11. How will I bring lesson to closure (summary questions)? • To close the lesson, students will write one question that they have from the lesson learned. Students will discuss in groups and write the answer to their questions in their journal. 12. How will I reinforce and extend student learning? Classroom application/follow up, enrichment activities, homework. • Students will use class and group activity and journal entries to follow up on what was learned. Students will have tests and short answer quizzes where they learn key points of the lesson. Students will have vocabulary and spelling words to take home and review prior to and during lesson. 13. What topics come next? Tomorrow? Day after? • Doing research on a hero of your choice can lead into many lessons and topics. After researching the hero of their choice, students will gather an understanding of who and what a hero is. This can lead into an important hero in history or important hero in today's world. 14. How do I evaluate this lesson? Strengths. Weakness, areas to work on, things to change. • My strengths will be weather the students understand in the end the topic of a hero. Areas to work on will be when students have questions about a point I was trying to make and this can be determined by their journal question at the end of the lesson. If there are multiple students with the same question, then I know that this area was not covered in depth enough.