Lesson Plan # 2 Block #3

Teacher Ed. Candidate:Wendy Harp Supervising Teacher:L. Shelton UWG Supervisor: S. Pierce

School: Cherokee Elementary Date of Implemented Lesson Plan: 10/4/2012

Subject: ELA Grade Level: 4th

Standards & Elements / ELACC1L1g. Use frequently occurring conjunctions.
ELACC3L1h. Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
ELACC5L1e. Use correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor).
Essential Question / How can I form a compound sentence?
Assessment/Evaluation
(Describe the evaluation as it relates to the elements.) / Simple and Compound Sentences Worksheet.

WHERE method for Lesson Plan Development:

Acceleration & Previewing
Key Vocabulary
(This can be done the day before or at the beginning of the lesson/combined with the Activating Strategy) / Where are we headed?
Simple Sentence
Compound Sentence
Conjunction
Activating Strategy
(Standard/EQ – What do the students need to know by the end of the lesson or unit?
Hook – engage all students & tie to previous learning.) / Hook the student.
Hook: The students will take out their writing journals and highlight sentences that they think are compound. Then, the teacher will call on a few students to share the sentences they highlighted.
Teaching Strategies
(Describe the activities planned and the anticipated actions of the students.)

Include differentiation strategies. / Explore the lesson content.
The teacher will go over the definition of simple sentence and compound sentence, on the smart board.
The teacher will go over examples of simple and compound sentences.
The students will participate in the discussion while the teacher goes over the examples.
The students will complete the simple and compound sentences worksheet, individually.
The teacher will go over the worksheet with the class.

An alternative worksheet will be provided to students with specific learning disabilities.
Extending & Refining
(Activity that guides students to rethink or think beyond the learned skill – may be incorporated AFTER summarizing/evaluation.) / Rethink our work & ideas.
Students who finish early will turn their paper over and write two compound sentences, on their own.
Summarizing
(Closure)
(Reflects evidence of student learning – evaluation – Guided by the essential question – All students participate) / Evaluate results.
The teacher will go back to the essential question and have the students answer it.
Ticket out the door which should include one compound sentence written by the student.
  1. Describe the any additional adaptations/modifications planned for exceptional students (EIP, Inclusion, Gifted, ESOL, RTI, students who have yet to be identified with learning/behavioral disabilities, etc.)
  2. Agenda: (see document titled “The Lesson Agenda”.
  3. Reflection: (to be completed following the teaching of the lesson)

Agenda:

  1. Define simple and compound sentences
  2. Provide examples of simple and compound sentences
  3. Give students worksheet
  4. Go over worksheet in class
  5. Answer essential question, “How can I form a simple and compound sentence?”

Reflection Lesson Plan

“Simple and Compound Sentences”

This lesson was exciting for me to teach. The students have been reading, “Who is Neil Armstrong.” I was allowed to teach the students about simple and compound sentences using information from the book. I created a work sheet using information from the text. The students really enjoyed creating compound sentences using two simple sentences, a comma, and a conjunction. We discussed FANBOYS and went through the letters to help them remember the conjunctions that join two simple sentences. The students were very involved in the lesson. I would change the lesson if I were to teach it again to include 2 compound sentences and 2 simple sentences on the ticket out the door. The students were only asked to write one compound sentence as the ticket out the door. The students’ achievement was apparent when I checked the tickets out the door. Each student was very creative in writing the compound sentences. I am very pleased with the results of the lesson on simple and compound sentences.