Lesson Date: Friday October 25, 2013 Proficiency/Grade level Level One students in grades 9-12 National ELL Goals/Standards: Goal 1: To use English to communicate in social setting. Standard1: Students will use English to participate in social interaction. Standard 2: Students will interact in, through, and with spoen and written Engish !or personal e"pression and en#oy$ent. Standard 3: Students will use learning strategies to e"tend their co$$unicati%e co$petence. Goal 3: To use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways. Standard 1: Students will choose a language %ariety, register, and genre according to audience, purpose, and setting. Standard 2: Students will use non&%erbal co$$unication appropriate to audience, purpose, and setting. Standard 3: Students will use appropriate learning strategies to e"tend their sociolinguistic and sociocultural co$petence. Language Goals/Standards: Ob#ecti%e 1: Obtain new %ocabulary words associated with introducing yoursel!. 1.1 'se %ocabulary words appropriately in describing about your bacground. 1.2 (espond appropriately to )uestions in%ol%ing new %ocabulary words through spoen language or actions *pointing or locating places, !lags etc.+ Ob#ecti%e 2: 'nderstand what it $eans to answer and as )uestions about yoursel! or an indi%idual. 2.1 ,ble to classi!y the right responses. Background Information: Students have had some formal instruction as adjectives, locations, and weather vocabulary that describe a city. Students need to be familiar with understanding what each vocabulary word and concept means. Vocabulary: Students can learn new vocabulary through the PowerPoint presentation for better understanding of the book. They will receive the following definitions of: sauntering, neon, graffiti and bodega. Materials: PowerPoint presentation of terms, the book Black Cat by Christopher Myers, Venn Diagram of City and Country, brainstorm worksheet of city Activate Prior-knowledge/Set: Brainstorm worksheet of city. Ask students: What do you think of when you think of cities? Give students the opportunity to describe things in a city. Input/Modeling (include informal checks for understanding): Independent Practice: 1. Assessment: Assessment Strategies for nderstanding: Tas! performance -.as per!or$ance is being used because a!ter / show the$ the tas and gi%e the$ directions as what to do the students will then be ased to per!or$ the tas / ha%e gi%en the$ as an e"a$ple. -,nd i! they per!or$ the tas that / ha%e ased the$ o! then they ha%e co$prehended it. -0reating their honeyco$b and presenting it pairs, class or one&on&one with $e later !or in!or$al assess$ent o! speaing sills with this concept. -,necdotal records will be taen as the students are woring and speaing in !ront o! the class to guide !urther instruction as well. Extension Activities: *While the PowerPoint presentation is being present, students have a piece of paper out and they are following along by writing notes and drawing pictures to help them remember the definitions. *As the PowerPoint presentation is going on take the time to give each student time to write their own example or sentence for that word. *Create a Venn diagram as a class that compares the theme of the lesson Bees and the Class together. * *Have a research project where students learn about another city -1resenting pro#ects in !ront o! class about their own country -,sing )uestions and practicing co$$unication sills -2earning about each other3s countries and where they ca$e !ro$. Closure: Refer back to the Venn Diagram and have students complete and add anything else to their diagram. Accommodations: Students with %ision i$pair$ents will be at the !ront o! the roo$ Students with %ision i$pair$ents will wor with enlarge te"ts Students will be arranged into heterogeneous partners, pairing higher&ability learners with lower Students will be seated ne"t to a peer $odel i! needed Students with attention needs will be allowed to take short breaks throughout the lesson Students with special needs will be seated next to a peer model to help Reflection: Was this lesson appropriate for this level of learners? Did I meet my lesson objectives? Were the students able to work independently and be successful? Do I need to go back and re-teach any vocabulary words? Was the website I chose appropriate and did it get their attention? What would I do different next time to make the lesson even better? Were students able to follow me as I read the book? Did the students comprehend the connection of the book with city and country?