Lesson One Day One Jacob Holt

Daily Topic: Baseball

Subject: Language Arts
Approximate time needed:
One 60 minute class period
Objectives:
By taking an inquiry-based approach to this outstanding baseball book, students will extend the reading experience while
accomplishing educational goals.
Prerequisite skills:
1. Students should to be able to use a computer and navigating the Internet.
2. Students should to be able to know how to read, write, and use punctuation correctly.
Procedures:
1. The teacher will enter the classroom and introduce themselves and the topic of Baseballs.
2. The teacher will then inform the students of the goal for todays lesson which is to read and understand the class
Novel, The Brooklyn Nine.
3. The teacher will walk through and explain each step of the Webquest.
4. Students will break up into small groups to create nine trading cards.
5. Technology Activity: After Reading the Ninth Inning, Students will create an inspiration idea map to show what is
in the Sniders Cardboard box.
6. Technology Activity: Once they have identified the objects in sniders cardboard box, they should research the
history of each item.
7. Technology Activity: The Student should create one trading card from each inning.
8. After students have completed their brochures, they will be projected on a screen and the group will give a short
presentation about each trading card and what they learned about it.

Materials needed:
1. Access to a computer with internet access
2. Access to Microsoft Publisher
3. Overhead projector
4. Access to PowerPoint
5. Inspiration
6. Microsoft Word
Daily evaluation:
Category

4 Exemplary

Idea Map

Includes 9
innings and 3
items per
inning. Also
includes
research notes
for 1 item per
inning.

3 Qualified 2
1
Developing Beginning
Most
elements
included.

Some
elements
included.

Few
elements
included.

Trading Cards 9 Trading cards Most

- one per
elements
inning. Each
included.
card includes
an image, a
title, and a subtitle.
Description
includes both
fiction and fact.

Some
elements
included.

Few
elements
included.

Bibliography

Time and
Effort

Includes
citations for all
sources on 9
trading cards.

Most sources Some

cited.
sources
cited.

Few sources
cited.

Student used
class time
wisely and
always stayed
on task.

Often used
time wisely
and stayed
on task.

Rarely used
time wisely
and stayed
on task.

Sometimes
used time
wisely and
stayed on
task.

Accommodations:
Special needs:
o Extra time on activities, time to correct mistakes, colored paper for reading, tools to magnify monitor,
software to read out information on the Internet.
Gifted/Talented:
o Will write a two page book report on a the Brooklyn Nine.
Non-Native:
o Illustrated text, graphic organizers, assistance from an ESL teacher that comes in and helps the students