CulturalLp3

Lesson Plan #3
**Date:** April 7, 2009


 * Housekeeping Stuff:** The students will be asked if they finished their RAFT assignments.


 * Student/Classroom Description**: 8th grade Language Arts class. 4 girls, 1 boy. No exceptionalities.

The purpose of this lesson is to see what the students have learned about their person through a Trivial Pursuit game. In addition, the students will share and discuss the RAFT writing assignments and final thoughts about their books.
 * Lesson Description/Rationale:**

Colored index cards Box containing the index cards for the Trivial Pursuit Game 5 copies of an exit slip (one for each student) A key showing what each color (category) is in the game
 * Materials & Equipment:**


 * Lesson Objectives & Standards: **
 * 1) Students will discuss how their poems relate to their books and talk about the significance of their poems.
 * 2) Students will refer to their RAFT projects and briefly discuss one aspect of their project (example: role of the writer or the audience it was aimed at). 
 * 3) Students will participate in a Trivial Pursuit game that will allow them to think critically about different events that occurred in each story.


 * 1) //Illinois Learning Standard 2.B.3a//: Respond to literary material from personal, creative and critical points of view.
 * 2) //Illinois Learning Standard 2.A.3d:// Identify ways that an author uses language structure, word choice and style to convey the author’s viewpoint.
 * 3) //Illinois Learning Standard4.B.3a:// Deliver planned oral presentations, using language and vocabulary appropriate to the purpose, message and audience; provide details and supporting information that clarify main ideas; and use visual aids and contemporary technology as support.
 * 4) //Illinois Learning Standard 3.B.3a:// Produce documents that convey a clear understanding and interpretation of ideas and information and display focus, organization, elaboration and coherence.

 =Lesson Content=

Set Induction:
 After greeting the students,  the students will be asked to share their RAFT writing assignment with the group and answer questions regarding it. "Students, now we would like you to share your RAFT writing assignment with the group. Do we have any volunteers to go first? [Start with volunteer student.] That was great. Can you tell us why did you choose to write your piece as a _ [whatever format they chose- poem, letter, etc.]? [After the student answers] Do you feel like you have a better understanding of [their topic] after writing this? [Continue around the table until each student has read their RAFT and answered the questions.] "

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Please take out your foldable and show them to everyone in the class. Can you tell the group what you wrote in each box-
 * 1) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"What is one main point you've learned about your person by reading your book?"
 * 2) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"What is one interesting fact about your person?"
 * 3) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"What is the quote you selected from your book?"
 * 4) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"What did you use as your "freebie" question and what was your answer?"

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[Start with a student and then continue around the table until each student has gone.]

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Content & Activities:
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ms. Coleman Transition: "Thank you for sharing your poems and foldables with us. Now we are going to see what you know about your book by playing our version of Trivial Pursuit. There are sets of questions for each of the individuals we learned about. Each person has questions in the following categories: Person, Place, Event, and Miscellaneous. If you get your first question correct you may continue answering questions until you have missed one or have gotten three correct answers- whichever comes first. It will then be another student's turn. At the end of the game, the person with the most points will be declared the winner and given a prize!

[The questions will be colored coded index cards from each book studied. Each color will represent one of the historical figures being studied by the students.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Purple- Walter Dean Myers
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Blue- A. Philip Randolph
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Yellow- Harper Lee
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Orange- W.E.B. Du Bois
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Red- Martin Luther King Jr.]

"Students, this game is played very similarly to Trivial Pursuit. You can select a category (Person, Place, Event, or Miscellaneous) to answer. Whoever has the most correct answers at the end of the game will win a prize!" <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Transition Mrs. Mayhood: After the students are done playing the game we are going to have the students fill out exit slips on the books they have just read. "Students now we are going to fill out exit slips. Exit slips help wrap up the new content we have talked about. These exit slips will serve as an end for you after reading your books. We will give each of you a exit slip with 4 questions on it. After you receive your exit slip, jot down an answer to each question. After all of you are done filling out your exit slips, we will take a few minutes as a group to go over any of the questions." "When the group is done going over the exit slips, this will conclude the lesson. We will tell the students, "We have had a great time working with all of you. <span style="color: rgb(33,0,255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Thanks for all your hard work!" =====

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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Literacy Techniques Used:

 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Discussion
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">RAFT Writing Strategy
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Writing
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Exit Slips