Summerbridge Hong Kong 2019 Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Course: Date:

Cynthia Yu Environmental Science
Aim/Objective: Students will be able to . . .

Key Vocabulary:

Materials Needed and Physical Classroom Prep:

Procedure: Time:
Do Now/Hook:
- In a hat, I will put inside the elements of a formal letter, but instead 5min
of words, it will illustrate the structure in pictures. For example, the
address will be shown as a house or a finger pointing to a place on
a map.
- I will tell students that they are all elements of a letter.
- Passing the hat around the class, each student will pick out one
image each by random, and in pairs, will need to work together to
figure out what their own image represents.
- We’ll then share our answers as a class.

Direct Instruction/Modeling: 10min

- In the meantime, I will draw a shark on the whiteboard. On
different places on the shark, I will write the SHARK mnemonic to
serve as a template for the structure of a formal letter.
- It will roughly go something like this:
S Start the letter
H Head to the reason
A Attention to the problem
R Recommend a solution
K Kindly end the letter
- I will explain what each letter represents.
- S: Before we start writing our letter, we need to write some
information first.
- H: We should start with the reason we are writing the letter.
- A: We bring attention to the problem by giving more information
to the people we are writing it to.
- R: Recommending a solution means we can suggest or offer a way
to solve the problem we are writing about.
- K: We should end the letter with kind words so that whoever we
send this to will be more likely to write back and solve the
problem.

Student Practice/Application: 25min

- From the starter, the students will all have their images on hand. As
a class, we will pin those images on the whiteboard in the section
where we think they belong. For example, the address would go on
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the “S” part. (The S part would probably be at the head of the
shark)
- We’ll then make any changes if necessary and see if everyone
agrees with the classification.
- I’ll then project our shark fin mind map from the previous lesson
onto the whiteboard.
- In 5 groups, students can label the information from the mind map
using S, H, A, R, or K, indicating which section they think the
information is relevant to. Each group is responsible for 1 letter.
- We’ll then brainstorm sentence starters, connectives, and letter
endings. I’ll start off with a few examples like, “In my opinion…”
or “I think that…”, as well as “In addition…”, “Firstly”
- When they’re done, we’ll use a piece of poster paper to write the
letter together. Each pair will be responsible for writing their own
part, but as a class we’ll decide what sentences to write. I’ll give
guiding questions along the way in case anyone is stuck, and they
can always refer to the mind map they’ve labelled.

Wrap up/Closure:
- Today, we learned how to sort information that we gathered into a 3min
different parts to help us write.
- We also learned the different parts of a letter. SHARK can also be
used for writing other letters in a formal setting. When we say
formal, we write to important people such as school principals or
organizations.
- If we ever feel stuck when we are writing a letter, we can draw
mind maps and a shark picture to help us remember what to write!

Clean Up 2min
- Markers

Homework:

Relevance to SB Goals:
X English Language Development:
X Love of Learning:
X Building Confidence:

Plan for Upcoming Days:

In the next lesson, we’ll focus specifically on how bird migration is affected by
environmental disasters by playing a board game.