ULMS Lesson Plan

ELA
Teacher(s): Hale
Unit Title: Novel- So Far From the Bamboo Grove
Date: 11/30/15 12/04/15
Lesson Title:Persuasive Writing/Reading
Practice/
Research Skills/ Identifying Theme
Big Idea:
Good literature connects with ones
humanity. It speaks to our hopes,
strengths, failures, and triumphs

EQ: In what ways does the authors purpose affect

the tone/mood of a given literary piece.

STANDARD (S): ELAGSE7RI6, 10 ELACCW3, 4

Warm Up:
Vocabulary review from active board
Opening/Activating Strategy/Mini Lesson:
Students will look through the previous days reading and
record in their journals examples of compound, complex, and
compound-complex sentences. Students will also include
examples of figurative language that could be found. Students
will then choose one of the examples they found to explain
how the author used it to improve the reading experience.
Work Session/Student-centered practice:
Students will be separated into groups for the week. Each
group will rotate through four centers, completing one center
per day.
Centers:
Reading/milestones practice- SWBAT read passages and
complete comprehension and language skills questions
Novel Reading- SWBAT read assigned chapters from the
novel. Upon completion of the reading students will then be
able to complete a comprehension assessment.
Art/Culture- Students will watch a short video on Kamishibai,
paper story telling. After watching the video students will
create their own creative story using the process of
Kamishibai. They will illustrate the story on cards (at least
five) and then write sentences to describe the events of their
story. Students will then take pictures of their cards using
chrome books and create video story.
Authors Purpose- Students will play a game to
introduce/review the idea of authors purpose. Students can
play individually or with a partner. Students will then be given
a purpose for writing (entertain, inform, persuade) and a
choice of topics from which to choose for their writing.
As students complete work in their center they will begin work
on an extension activity or read for Book Adventure.

DI Strategies:

DI Strategies:
Group students based on SRI
data
Leveled passages to be assigned
based on SRI data/reading level
Student choice with the choice
board activities
Leveled activities on the choice
board activities (complexity)
Book Adventure books are
student choice
PALS reading partners chosen
according to SRI data

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ELA
Extension Activity:
1. Define communism, fascism, and dictatorship using Google.
2. Watch the videos for World War One and World War Two.
3. List the events that caused WWI and WWII.
4. In paragraph form tell what could have been done to
prevent both wars.
5. Watch the video and read the article on this weekend's ISIS
attacks in Paris.
6. Using Google docs or the website, SMORE, create a
newsletter that reports what happened in Paris and answers
the question, "What steps should we take, as a global
community, to prevent the events in Paris from becoming
another world war?"
Closing:
In their journal students will write a couple of sentences telling
how what they did today in their center will help them become
better readers/writers
Assessment(s) used:
Thinking Maps Used:
Closing discussion

Homework:read 20 min. each day/independent reading project

Teacher reflection (after teaching):

DI Strategies:

Technology used:
AB
Chrome books