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Subject: Social Studies & Writing |
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Title-
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Create a personal narrative from the Sun's point of view watching the earth and explaining what the sun would see. |
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Background-
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Geography: Vocabulary from Chapter 1 and 2 of the Social Studies book. |
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Expected Outcome Of This Lesson Plan-
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1.Students will create a personal narrative from the Sun's point of view.
2. Students will show an understanding of the social studies content from Chapter one and chapter two. |
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Teacher Objectives-
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1.See the Performance indicators for Social Studies.
2. See the Performance indicators for writing. |
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Resources-
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Social Studies Book
Writing |
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Teaching Methods-
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1. Lesson Introduction-
1.Explain that a personal narrative is writing a short story about your life.
2.Discuss some of the things that the students have learned in the last few weeks about geography.
3. Talk about how a Sun if it had a human quality might write about what he/she sees when looking at the earth. |
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2. Lesson Progression-
1. Hold a discussion and write some ideas as a class on the board. |
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3. Guided Practice-
1. Have students work on their packet and guide them through the writing process.
2. Guide students through finding important information in their text book to include in their narrative. |
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4. Student Practice-
1. Give students adequate time to write.
2. Have the students have 3 people other than the teacher to edit using the rubric given at the end of the writing packet. |
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5. Learner Accommodations-
1. Some students might need more one on one help to direct them to be able to write a narrative from a sun's point of view. |
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6. Assessment-
1.Have students do a self evaluation using the rubric to see if the have met the 3 FCA's.
2. Teacher will use the rubric to evaluate the 3 FCA's. |
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7. Lesson Closure-
1.Read and display some good narratives(with their names withheld)to the students or show them on the LCD projector. |
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Measuring Student Progress-
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1. Use the Rubrics with the student and their editors.
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