Submitted by Lisa Marie
Objectives:
Content:
Students will... read along with power point presentation of the story of each wallCultural:
Students will... be introduced to other cultures via takling walls that are found in those culturesLanguage: Content Obligatory
Students will... practie adjective useLanguage: Content Compatible
Students will...Learning Strategies / Social and Skills Development:
Students will... use strategy of brainstorming to come up with what they know record what they know and later what they learned
Time Frame:
50 minutes
Materials Needed:
overhead transparencies Journals poster paper (4) talking walls book power point
Description of Assessment (Performance Project):
Lesson 1 Introduce lesson: give students a road map of next few days White board direction: 1. Put books underneath desk 2. Get journal 3. Open to clean page and put today’s date 4. Write down journal questions Journal activity: Think about a wall in your house – maybe one in your room. Describe what it looks like. What color is it? What is hanging up on it. What does it feel like? A. Brainstorm walls What do we know about walls? What do they do? What is their pupose? What do they look like, feel like, smell likeâ€≈.? Focus on using adjectives 1. Journal (2 minutes) 2. Groups of three combine answers on poster paper divided in half one side saying what we know the other side saying what we learned B. Read 2-3 stories from Talking walls Power point (power point) with words on screen – music representing culture – Always start with map of world, focus in on where we are and where we are going Could do some sort of grammar exercise with this activity as well-Focus in on how walls are described (adjectives)maybe cloze activity filling in the adjectives. C. go back to brainstorm and fill in under what we learned
Assessment:
Describe how this lesson will be assessed. It can be very informal: a checklist, worksheet, self-assessment, homework, etc. journal adjective cloze activity poster paper
References and Resources:
List only References and Resources specific to this Lesson. Talking Walls by Margery Burns Knight
Attachments:
NOTE: some attachments are in PDF form (get Acrobat Reader)List only Attachments specific to this Lesson. Cloze exercise