Sierra Nevada College Secondary Lesson Plan Sample

Teacher
Candidate:
Grade/Subject:
Lesson
Content:
SNC
Supervisor:

William Monsey
9 Spanish 1
Introduction to Art and
Vocabulary

Lead
Teacher:
District:
School:
Time
Allotted:

50 minutes

Materials, including technology:

Smartboard
Paper
Colored pens/pencils

Standard(s), including literacy for all content areas and/or SMP

1 Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken or written conversations to share information, reactions,
feelings, and opinions.
6 Learners build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of other disciplines.

How will learning be assessed at the end of the unit/learning cycle (summative):
Students will present about a chosen work of art by a Spanish-speaker. Students will also take a test asking to
describe and answer questions regarding a provided painting

Objective(s): high cognitive demand for diverse learners

Cognitive Level (DOK or

Blooms)

Objective 2, 3, 5
(See Unit Plan)

DOK 1, 3, 2

Connections to past learning or experience, building background

Discuss artists that students may be familiar with, show common images.

Essential Vocabulary
-

Spanish-speaking artists names

and nationalities
All previous vocab.

Definitions
- various
- various

Strategy for teaching new vocabulary

Students will be shown a montage of Spanish-speaking artists including painters, sculptors, singers, and dancers

Sierra Nevada College Secondary Lesson Plan Sample

Sequence and Scope of Instruction (include
instructional strategies, questions, opportunities
for meaning making through discourse and other
engagement strategies, formative assessments,
opportunities for metacognition, grouping,
differentiation and transitions)

Instructional Strategy

- Warm-up: Students will be presented with a short montage

of Spanish-speaking artists
- State Objectives: Students will research and select a work of
art from a Spanish-speaking artist
- Connect to past learning/experience:
- Students will reflect on artists and works of art the
know from Spanish speaking countries

Teacher-led discussion

Teacher-led discussion

Guided notes
Formative assessment

Individual work, cross

content
Individual work, writing,
formative assessment

- Students will use the computer lab to research chosen artist

to select a work on which to present
- Student activities with translation/sentence formation
embedded in guided notes

- Students will draft a short description of their work of art

using known vocabulary in Spanish. Then identify additional
vocabulary to translate for use in presentation.

Closure: Students will share one word they identified to

translate and its translation to the class

Student discourse

Closure : specific activity to review content

Exit ticket: Students will share one word they identified to translate and its translation to the class

estimate
d time

5 m

5 m

30 m

10 m

5 m