LESSON PLAN 6 PENANUT BUTTER AND DETAILS

Outcomes: CCSS WS 8.3:

Students write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. Instructional objective:

Students will be able to use more details in their writing in order to make directions clearer to the audience. Assessment: I will read the instructions the students create about making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I will look for details and if the directions are accurate and can be followed.

Materials Needed: Peanut Butter, jelly, bread, plastic knife and plates, napkins. Total Time Needed: 20 min Procedures: Introduction (2 min): Today we are going to try and make 3 peanut butter sandwiches, but first I need to tell you about the importance of detail in writing.

Steps for instruction (16 min): Good writing always includes lots of details. Details help our audiences understand better our purpose. And today, I am going to demonstrate that details are very important by conducting a little experiment. Each one of you is going to write a step-by-step list of direction on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Include every single detail. Someone might follow your directions, and you do not want to miss anything! The materials you can use to make the sandwich are: peanut butter, jelly, bread, plastic knives, plates, and napkins.

WRITE IN THE BOARD THE MATERIALS THEY CAN USE TO MAKE THE SANDIWCH AND PUT THEM IN A TABLE WHERE THEY CAN SEE THEM. I WILL HAVE THE STUDENTS WORK IN THE DIRECTIONS FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES. All right! Put your name on your directions sheet, fold it twice and pass them to the front of the room. This is what we are going to do now. We are going to see if we can make peanut butter sandwiches following the directions that some of you wrote. I will do the first one, and then I will have a couple of volunteers follow other directions.

I WILL FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS OF A RANDOMLY CHOSEN PAPER, AND THEN HAVE OTHER STUDENTS DO THE SAME. Closure (2 min): As you can see after our little experiment of following directions, it is very important to include details in our writing. We want our audience to follow what we are trying to say, or in other words: understand our purpose. Every time you write, remember that you want your audience to follow your thoughts, and one way you can do it is by adding details to your main ideas. One last thing. Our details need to be clear because you dont want your audience to end up with an unopened jar of peanut butter and jelly stilling on top of a loaf of bread.

Name: Mrs. Rodriguez Date: April 20, 2012 Content Area: ELA Grade Level: 8th

Lesson adapted from a lesson submitted by Erin Braslawsky from Culver Elementary School, Niles, Illinois from the website www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/00-1/lesson0043.shtml