Courtney Sobotka

EDUC 359 Fall Semester

November 16, 2016
Live Lesson Reflection
Our SIOP live lesson we taught Jack the basics about immigration and what it was
like being an immigrant. First we asked Jack if he had any previous or background
knowledge on immigration. Here we let him tell us all he knew about Ellis Island and
immigration. We then went over some sample questions that an immigrant entering the
United States had to answer, for example, what do the stripes and stars on our flag
represent, who was our first president, etc. After the questions we showed the video on
traveling to Ellis Island back in the day. We had a short discussion about the video and
then went straight into the immigration passage. We alternated reading one passage at a
time and then discussed the key points from the article. As a closure, we had Jack come
up with his own immigration story.
1. Our objective for the lesson was student will be able to draw evidence from the
passage to create their own immigration story. I feel we achieved our objective.
Jack created his own immigration story, coming up with a country where he came
from and why he was going to the United States. I feel like this was the part that
Jack liked the best. It was a creative and fun activity for him to do on the topic.
2. The goal for this live lesson was to challenge the students vocabulary/language. I
felt it was hard to challenge Jacks vocabulary because he already knew so much
about the content. I challenged his vocabulary when I asked him the difference
between emigrant and immigrant. Both terms have very similar meanings. I
reinforced these definitions a couple of times throughout the lesson.

3. The lesson as a whole went well. Jack already knew a lot about immigration. The
part from the lesson I would change would be the video. There were times where I
could tell that Jack was getting bored and it was definitely during the video. As
for any student, they would get bored during a video and that is where most
students stop paying attention. If I had to do this lesson again, I would probably
take out the video and replace it with something more engaging.
4. If I were to repeat this lesson with an ELL student there would not be many
changes I would make to the lesson. Instead of the student reading the passage, I
would read the passage aloud. Another change I would make would be for the
immigration story organizer. I would not have an ELL student write their story, I
would have him verbalize and explain his story.