LESSON TITLE: How to Write an Email Lesson #: 2

TEACHER NAME: Brittney Gibson DATE: April 7th, 2017

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Preparation/Planning
ESL Course: Beginning
Writing
Topic/Theme:
Emails
Listening
Objectives
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Bridging
What background knowledge
do the students already have?
What will you do to activate
or link students prior
knowledge or experience to
upcoming content?
Engagement with New Material
What will you do to engage
students in the active learning will break down the different sections of each email. Next, I will ask
of the new material?
What will you do to ensure
that all students are engaged? understand the assignment. Students will have to use their knowledge
Application
What opportunities will you
provide students to practice
and apply their
knowledge/skill to meet the
objectives for this lesson? To will be provided a chance to work with partners to revise the email. In
apply to other contexts?
Level Beginning Intermediate Advanced Multilevel
Listen to and understand the words introduction, conclusion, and
body sentences and their concepts.
Practice reading orally in class, discussing email content as partners, as
well as speaking to each other about paragraph writing protocol in
groups.
Read mentor texts in order to understand email organizations.
Practice writing a paragraph conclusion, practice drafting an email on
paper.
The Students have reviewed simple present and progressive forms of
grammar. Some students use email regularly and some are not so
familiar with it. All students have access to a school email account.
Their current grammar knowledge should be enough to draft a
simple email.
We will have a brief review of simple present and progressive forms.
There will be a brief pre-writing session where students will answer the
following questions: Do you write emails? What do you write emails
for? Has there been a time when it was difficult to write an email in
English/whatever language you are learning? Then they will discuss in
partners and share with the class.
I will ask students to read mentor texts aloud. Using a power point, I
students to get in randomly assigned groups. Each group will be
assigned a different email. Together, students will sort the email in the
correct order, and label the different parts of the email. Finally, they
will brainstorm an appropriate ending for an email. They will then
read their email and conclusion out loud.
I will speak to each student and walk around, making sure that students
of the short lecture and discussion in order to help their group sort and
organize sample emails.
Students will then use the skills they have learned in the lesson to draft
their own casual or formal essay. First, they will be given time to think
of an email topic. Next, they will be given an email organizer to
organize their thoughts. They will work on this draft in class, and then
the future, applying the concepts of introduction, body sentences,

Assessment
How will you assess their
learning of the objectives?
Closing
How will you help students
recap the learning and link it
back to the original purpose of
the lesson?
Technology
If applicable for your context
and your lesson, how will you
meaningfully integrate
technology into your lesson?
and conclusion will be used to draft academic paragraphs.
I will assess students using a rubric that I will have provided for them.
(Attached, Appendix D)
I will ask the students to work on the first draft of their email and turn
it into me for homework via email or the next class. I will explain to
them how the lesson connects to our future assignments in which they
will need to use similar concepts in order to construct and organize a
paragraph for our class.
I will be using a Power point and a projector for the lecture. This will
be used in order to help them visually understand email organization.

Reflection
What went well? How do you Students understood the burger analogy and this helped them to
know? separate the different areas needed during paragraph creation.
What didnt go as planned? I ran out of time to introduce the final activity and we had a brief visit
from a guests speaker, though these
What contingency plan did I decided to leave additional activities for the next class and slow down
you employ? so that students understood concepts.
What would you do I would separate formal and informal emails into two separate lessons.
differently next time? The distinction between the two can be explored in more depth.
Did your students meet the Students were able to begin drafting emails. They understood the
purpose and objectives for this different parts of the paragraph and were able to sort them within their
lesson? What is your groups. Students were also able to create conclusion sentences.
evidence for each?
What do your students need Students will need the illustration between the email creation and
next? How do you know? paragraph creation explained. However, before this, they need emails
to be revised and master these concepts.
What did you learn about your I should pay more attention to student use of technology. While some
glows and grows as a teacher? students may be taking notes on their laptops, some students may not
What can you do to work on be engaged. I can incorporate more links between past grammar
your areas needing growth? lessons and the current lesson. Finally, I may want to reduce the
amount of material I intend to cover in one lesson.
 Appendix A

Casual Email
To:yvonnewilliams@montclair.edu

Subject:MissingYou:)

DearYvonne,

Howhaveyoubeenlately?Iam

livinginCalifornianow.Itsbeautifulhere.Everyday,I

walkthroughthestreetsandlookatthelovelyhouses.The

housesareMissionhouses,withredroofsandwallsthat

looklikeclay.Thegardenshavelittlecactusesandaloe

plants.Palmtreeslinethestreetshereandtheskyis

blue.IfeellikeIamonvacationeverytimeIleavemy

house.Itisnotlikewherewearefrom,wheretheskyis

usuallygrey,andthehouseshavecold,redbricks.Iam

goingtoawonderfuluniversityhere.Ioftenmeetnew

friendsfromdifferentcountries.Peoplearefriendlyin

California,anditrarelyrainshere.Ithinkthatyou

shouldcomevisitme.ImissyouverymuchandIwantto

seeyou.Ihopetoseeyousoon!

Love,

Brittney
 Appendix B

Formal Email
To:professoralicejohnson@professorville.com

Subject:WorldHistoryProject

DearProfessorJohnson,

MynameisJeanLukeArquetteandIamastudentin

yourThursdayeveningUSHistory101Class.Iamworkingon

theclassprojectthatyouassignedwithmygroup.However,

Iamdoingalotoftheworkbymyself.Onestudent,Carly,

isasinglemother,andshehasntbeenabletomakeitto

classfor3weeks.Theotherstudent,Mitch,justtalkson

hisphonewheneverwemeet.Heplaysgamesonthecomputer

orjokesaroundwhileIdoallthework.Idontmind

workingonthisproject,butIfeellikeIamtheonlyone

doingthework.Itisalotofworktodobymyself.If

youarefree,couldwehaveameetingtotalkaboutwhatI

candoforthisproject?Iappreciateanyhelpyoucangive

me.

Sincerely,
JeanLuke

Appendix C
Print and Cut

Email 1

To: bijousweetie@yahoo.com
Subject: Cherry Blossoms

Dear Bijou,
Hows it going?

I am thinking about you right now because I can see cherry

blossoms in Balboa Park.

I know that you love flowers very much.

How are things in Iran? I miss Aunt Goli and Uncle Ali.

I miss delicious Persian Food.

And most of all, I miss you.

Write Conclusion: _______________________________

Sincerely,
Amir
Email 2

To: ghudson@deptfordcommunitycollege.edu
Subject: Homework Assignment #5

Dear Professor Hudson,

I am writing to you about our homework in English 42.

In this assignment, you ask us to write about a challenge we

have overcome in our life.

However, I do not understand this assignment.

Do you want us to write about challenges that we have had

in school?

Or do you want us to write about challenges in everyday

life?

I was thinking about writing about the challenge of living

in a new country.

Write Conclusion:
______________________________________

Sincerely,
Ji-hoon Jung
Email 3

To: rockstarriley@gmail.com
Subject: Language Exchange Partners

Dear Riley,
I am writing to you because I saw your ad on italki.com
looking for a language exchange partner.

I am a college student and I live in America now, but I am

from Sweden.

I like playing soccer, traveling, and painting pictures.

What do you like to do?

I am studying English so that I can take college courses and

become a nurse.

Why do you want to learn Swedish?

Write Conclusion:
________________________________________________

Sincerely,
Meja
 Appendix D

Email Organizer

Opening Sentence(s):

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Body Sentences:

1)

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

2)

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

3)

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Closing Sentence(s):
________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Sincerely,

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________
 Appendix E

Email Rubric

Excellent to Good Good to Adequate Needs Improvement

Introduction Appropriate subject Subject heading Topic is difficult to

heading, topic is may or may not fit, understand from

stated, relevant to topic may be stated introduction, may or

body sentences. but somewhat vague may not have a

subject heading
Body Ideas are easy to Some sentences Student did not

understand, may not fit, write enough

supporting sentences or out of sentences, or the

sentences are in the order, or there is not sentences are not in

correct order enough information a logical order

Conclusion Conclusion is polite, Conclusion is okay, Student may have

logical, and in the but may be too short forgotten to add an

right order or out of place appropriate

conclusion
Grammar, Spelling, Little to no grammar May have some Grammar or

Mechanics errors, correct use of grammar or mechanical make

sentence structures, mechanical errors the email difficult to

few spelling errors that should be understand or read

corrected
Style and Content Good use of skill for Email addresses Ideas do not reflect

an applicable assignment but is careful thinking,

 subject, email missing a few inadequate effort in

reflects thought and thoughts, or is off content

clarity topic

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