LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Topic/theme: HPE - Bullying Level/s: 7 Date: Duration: 50mins

Lesson 7. Analysing - Deconstruct and Analyse a letter of complaint

LESSON STRUCTURE TIME

Achievement Objective(s):
HP 3.1 - develop strategies to promote personal safety and wellbeing

W 3.1 - write purposefully to inform, argue, persuade, move and entertain unfamiliar and

specified readers

Learning Outcome(s):
Identify key concepts of a letter of complaint
Identify steps taken in examples
Explain why these steps are taken
Identify, Understand and Explain the language used in these letters of complaint

Preparation/Organisation/Resources:
http://www.bullying.co.uk/parents/lettersofcomplaint.aspx (retrieved 21/5/09)
Projector

Introduction:
Discuss with students when it is necessary to write formal letters of complaint 5 min

Development:
View example letters of complaint on website 5min
Deconstruct example letters of complaint 15min
Discuss similarities and differences to normal letters 5min
Students to create a short letter of complaint with key concepts included 15min

Conclusion:
Review students work (ongoing)
Introduce next lessons activities 5min

Assessment (if any):

Students work assessed against learning outcomes

Evaluation:
1. Against learning outcomes

2. Of own intentions/teaching
Lesson Description
Students will be taught literacy skills using the three main semiotic systems. Throughout the lesson
students will encounter and use the semantic system, the syntactic system and the graphophonic system.

Students will be shown a variety of different letters of complaint relating to bullying. These letters will
begin at a parent-teacher communication level and progress to a letter of complaint to an ombudsman on
the Department of Education.

The lessons main focus will be on the structure of formal letters of complaint and how the communication
differs when different audiences are addressed.

The use of relevant terminologies and how they are used throughout the various forms of letters will be a
central focus in this lesson. Students will be required to understand how relevant terminologies become a
part of effective communication when writing formal letters of complaint.

Students will be introduced to formal letter writing. Discussion will review prior knowledge of letter
writing. Students will be encouraged to use appropriate prior knowledge of letter writing within the
emerging content.

As terminology has been introduced to students at the beginning of the topic, by this stage they should be
graphophonically sound. By using the terminology throughout the unit students should have a firm grasp
on the words but will be able to use the sounds of the word to assist with writing terminology.

As the lesson concludes students work will be collected and reviewed by the teacher. The teacher will
then gauge the needs of the students as a whole and plan the next lesson. The next lesson will be a whole
class construction of a formal letter of complaint and address the needs of the students based on what they
achieved in this lesson.