Lesson Plan Template

Date: 2/3-2/11

Lesson Title: Five Paragraph Essay

Subject Area/ Course Title: 6th English

Instructor Name: S. Brannan

CIF Strategy: Think Pair Share, Grafitti Walk, Quiet
Comments Protocol, Fish Bowl

Units Objectives: SL1- Participate in conversations with diverse partners, building on others ideas, RL1 Cite textual evidence W1 Written Expression
Personal Objective: To have students truly think about a social issue and the character traits which affect/cause it, Through a series of pre-writing and class
sharing activities, students will develop ideas/create a five paragraph essay
Essential Question: How do we use writing to help others understand social issues?
Accessories/ Teaching Aids Required: Fables, Thesis Statement Umbrella
Reference Material: Fables (brought in by students)

Lessons:
Day One-Students share fables with peer and together find the moral. Students then work together to associate a social issue with the moral. (Think Pair Share)
Day Two-Students use Thesis Statement Umbrella to determine social issue and three character traits which cause the issue or affect it, Students participate in
Graffiti Walk to gather ideas/ comments from all groups, Quick Share-Out to Whole Group
Day Three-Students spend time in their group polishing and perfecting their Thesis Statement Umbrellas, Participate in Quiet Comments Protocol where they each
comment on thesis statement without discussing aloud, Quick Share-Out to Whole Group (This is where I will offer suggestions.)
Days Four-Five- Students work in their group-first creating a topic outline, then using the outline to create a rough draft of five-paragraph essay. These will be
shared with whole group using Fish Bowl protocol to generate whole group discussion.
Days Six-Seven-Students will use all feedback to create final 5-paragraph essay which they will read to whole group.
Strategies: Collaborative grouping; Writing to Learn; MAP Data; Questioning; Classroom Talk; Literacy Groups; Scaffolding Text; Marzanos Instructional Strategies: 1.
Identifying similarities and differences, 2. Summarizing and note taking, 3. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition, 4. Homework and practice, 5. Nonlinguistic
representations, 6. Cooperative Learning, 7. Setting objectives and providing feedback, 8. Generating and testing hypotheses, 9. Cues, questions, and advance organizers;
Blooms Taxonomy *Strategies used are italicized.

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