Appendix H
Sample Lesson Plan
May 29, 2012
Lesson: Word Trees-
Objective: Blends goal of looking at word families (morphological word analysis) and substituting more interesting words during writing revision.
Explain that during revision, you should not only be looking at editing your mistakes in spelling and punctuation, but looking at the words you used and think about other words you could use instead. These base words are the simplest form of the word (Can you make a connection with this and what you do in Math?) Build is what part of speech? (verb) remember that you can change the part of speech of the word by altering or changing its form.
1) brainstorm words that are synonyms for build (struct-latin root, create, form -base words [can stand on its own})
2) Model how to make the tree and add the words that are related to the base word
3) Choose groups of 2-3 to come up and work on the tree
Newspaper: working in small groups (by department) work on layout of the newspaper, show how to copy and paste, insert text boxes, change position and size of text and images. Explain to comic group how you developed their comic on chogger.com and how they can do the same with another piece that needs to be narrowed down to 6 frames.
Checklist for newspaper by dept:
Work on sports piece on soccer, needs title and more information. Patriots story: Korey; London Olympics needs more info, graphics are all set.. Need entertainment section pieces. Nicki Minaj: Nardly, Hunger Games: Jennifer, Video Games: Hunter, Andrew, Ben.
Local: Art festival piece all set. Need more info on Peace Garden, when, who, etc.
Talk to Kayla about her topic (robbery on Marly Mac Way). Julia and Sammy’s health piece, have more info from website on video game playing and children’s health…(see word doc).
Ryan and Dani need more info on Titanic II story, background info on Australian billionaire… (see word doc)
Class will continue work on word trees, then finish text while I take each dept. aside to finalize pieces for newspaper.
