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Destination: Combining local knowledge with technology to teach literacy skills in an ELL classroom
Week 3 Lesson Plans
Week 3
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Content Objective
Language Objective
Rationale
Direct Teach
Activity
Closure
I can revise my journal to have different types of sentences.
I can use traditional knowledge to explain how to use medicinal plants
I can use traditional knowledge to explain how to use medicinal plants
I can use a comma to seperate coordiante adjectives.
I can use traditional knowledge to explain how to use medicinal plants.
I can explain the characteristics of a good sentence.
I can conduct research on Medicinal Plants.
I can conduct research on medicinal plants.
I can explain why to use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives.
I can collaborate with my group to write a journal entry about medicinal plants.
How to use traditional knowledge to survive.
How to use traditional knowledge to survive.
How to use traditional knowledge to survive.
How to use traditional knowledge to survive.
How to use traditional knowledge to survive.
Have students go through next scene of game to get background knowledge on medicinal plants and watch both of Maggie's videos. Have students take notes on Content and Questions. Then lesson on sentence patterns.
Review the parts of a good interview. Have students collaborate and practice their script with their group before calling elders.
Have students finish research and discuss what they have found and comment on the findings of other groups. Have students decide what illnes they will write about in their journal, what will cure it, where to find it, and how to prepare it.
Lesson on using a comma to separate coordinate adjectives.
Review varying sentence patterns and how to seperate coordinate adjectives. Have groups collaborate and write journal 3. Writing prompt: Tell about a time one of your characters got sick. How did they heal themselves?
Have students collaborate and revise journal one and two.
Have groups call elders to answer their research questions. Make sure they record using notebook in Aris.
Have students listen to other interviews and comment on other groups interviews.
Have groups write their revise journals 1 and 2.
Have groups finish Journal 3.
Exit ticket: What is one attribute of a good sentence?
Exit ticket: Daily Self-assessment
Exit ticket: Daily Self-assessment
Exit ticket: Why do we need to use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives?
Turn in Journal on Google Drive.Fill out weekly self-assesment.
Standards