8th Grade Lesson Plan and Rationale PDF

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LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE Section 1: Lesson Preparation Teacher Candidate

Tamra Sanchez

Name: Grade Level

8th

Date: Unit/Subject: Instructional Plan

November 28, 2020 Teaching students the writing process Story prewriting lesson on the Great Awakening by Jonathan Edwards

Title:

1743

Lesson Summary and

This is a lesson plan to teach 8th grade students the steps to follow in the

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writing process. In this case, students will read stories and use graphic organizers to rewrite the information.

Classroom and

This classroom of twenty students consists of 11 boys and 9 girls. Six of

Student

the students are English language learners with different proficiency

Factors/Grouping:

levels and several of the students speak different languages. The fourteen students that do not have an ELL have been raised to speak English as their native tongue. There are two students that have IEPs or 504 plans, and one student is classified as gifted. Plus, two students are at the same reading level with a performance score of 163. The lesson will start with whole group instruction for the reading of the book, then the students will get into small groups for an activity

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LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE National/State

9-10. W.2-Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey

Learning Standards:

complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content

Specific Learning

Students will learn to use graphic organizers to help them remember

Target(s)/Objectives:

vocabulary from the book. The students will learn to recognize what the writing process is, and they will be able to explain what the writing process is, and also they will be able to write different narratives by the

Academic Language

end of the lesson. Writing process-in support or against the idea. Pre-writing Transitions The Great Awakening by Johnathan Edwards 1743

Resources, Materials,

Ideas concerning The Great Awakening Copies of The Great Awakening by Jonathan Edwards 1743, SMART

Equipment, and

Board, white board, vocabulary activity sheet, pens, different graphic

Technology:

organizers, notebooks and chart paper.

Section 2: Instructional Planning Anticipatory Set The students will read the book, The Great Awakening. Then in a group effort, they will recognize vocabulary specific to the book to write on either being in support of the concepts or against the concepts.

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Time Needed 10 min

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LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE Multiple Means of Representation (Instruction)

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The teacher will start the lesson by introducing the name of the lesson and what the objectives are. The book will then be introduced to the class, and the teacher will ask the students to practice several prewriting strategies with a topic of their choice taken from the book. 

While students know the theme to write about, issue different graphic organizers, the teacher will set up two areas for the students writing: one area for the student for the theme and one area for the students who are against the theme.

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Before allowing students to interact with the graphic organizers and the book, the teacher will help them follow the instruction and demonstrate the lessons' activity on the whiteboard.

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When the students have named the idea to write about, the teacher encourages students to explore the prewriting stage's viewpoints by visiting different stations and using different prewriting organizers.

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To help the students feel like writers in the next part of the lesson involves the teacher asking them to prewrite their ideas at the stations. That is either being in support of the concept or against the concept.

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After writing, the students will reflect on the lesson by asking questions such as

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Which prewriting strategy did you find useful? Why?

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How do prewriting organizers help you as a writer?

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Would a different organizer be useful for nonfiction? Persuasive writing?

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LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE Explain.

Multiple Means of Engagement (Student Practice) The teacher will instruct the class as a whole before the students are divided into two

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groups based on two perspectives: one group will be against the book, and the other group will be in support of the book. These two comprehension levels require an RTI or

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Tier level. While the students are in groups, some of the activities involve using graphic organizers to recognize concepts and vocabulary. This vocabulary learning approach will be applied during class instruction before getting to their respective groups. In contrast, during the collaborative method, the cooperative learning process will be used.

Multiple Means of Expression, Since the lesson is focused on writing, to evaluate the students to find out if they

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understand the lesson the following will be applied: Using the vocabulary that was taken from the class reading, the students will make a chart. The teacher will have the students create one paragraph on the main idea recognized by studying the chosen vocabulary and to use transitional words to write complete sentences. During the reflection on the lesson, the teacher will ask the students to write answers to questions such as:

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LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE 

How was the learning process?

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Were you satisfied with the learning process?

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Which prewriting strategy did you find useful? Why?

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How do prewriting organizers help you as a writer?

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Would a different organizer be useful for nonfiction? Persuasive writing? Explain? Extension Activity and/or Homework

Using the graphic organizer to guide their writing, the students will write the first

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paragraph of their paper. What ever they did not finish they take home as

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homework.

Part 2: Reflection This is a lesson prepared for a class with diverse students. Lessons with revised instruction need to put a teacher into devising and forming improved instruction procedures (Ingraham, 2020). This lesson recognizes the presence of students like those in need of RTI with a Tier 1 as evidenced by a performance of one year below the grade level. The chosen education and student engagement patterns include the standard group instruction where vocabulary learning strategies will be performed. To meet the different students' needs, a group collaboration design will follow suit to help students during the learning process (Ingraham, 2020). In this case, though, collective learning, the students' needs will be met and acknowledged. Instruction assessment models, like the strategies that have been chosen, are based on specific content. For example, having the students write a summary of what the lesson was about

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LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE will evaluate their needs. This process will capture the students’ needs and expectations and set the basis for future instructional approach improvement and students' needs (Ingraham, 2020). The digital devices utilized for this lesson, like a smartboard, allow the students to talk about what is on the smartboard, and it also allows for students and the teacher to talk (Seymour, n.d.). Through an open learning platform, cooperative learning will be improved. The interaction between the student and teacher is encouraged by this digital device and will enable the teacher's feedback on the students' knowledge of the lesson.

References Seymour, B. (n.d.). How K–12 Schools Should Define and Act on Digital Learning. EdTech. https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2019/04/how-k-12-schools-should-define-andact-digital-learning. Retrieved on November 28, 2020

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LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE Ingraham, K. D. (2020). Differentiated Instruction — Easier Than Most Teachers Realize. Discovery Institute. https://www.discovery.org/education/2020/11/25/differentiatedinstruction-easier-than-most-teachers-realize/. Retrieved on November 28, 2020

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