Scott Tobin

Introduction: Having a substitute teacher

Lesson Topic- Studying for a section of the SOL’s before the SOL test by using SOL
words in an audio game which will be supplied on a computer.

Length of Lesson: 90 minute class

VA Standards of Learning: Review day of vocabulary spread out throughout the entire
SOL; today is to ascertain what students know versus what students need to learn and
review.

Cognitive Objects:

The students will define the SOL words.

The students will give examples of SOL words.

The students will describe how an SOL words are used.

Materials and Objectives:

Notebooks

Pen or pencil

Teaching and Learning Sequence:

Introduction: (45 Minutes)

Audio Presentation- The students will play a game called “Around the World.”
The teacher will click on the monitor and it will shout a random SOL word. Two students
will compete to see who can define that word and then give an example of the word in a
context. If a student is correct he will move onto the next student; however, if he is
wrong, then he will sit down in that student’s desk and the other student will move on.
The overall winner will be the furthest down the rows of desks or reach he started first.
Overall, winner will receive a free lunch of their chose with the teacher.

-If both students do not get the word, the word will be passed and a new word will
be chosen; however, that word will be reviewed after the game.

Lesson Development- (20 Minutes)

-Students will answer worksheet questions which consists of all of the SOL words
they need to know and how to use examples of these words.

-Students can work amongst themselves or with a partner if they choose.

Closure- (25 Minutes)

-The teacher will bring students together and go over the worksheet

-The teacher will call on students who raise their hands to answer the question but will
also call on students who do not raise their hand

-Students must study for the test which will be in two days.

Homework-

Study for the test in two days with the worksheet which was handed out in class and
previous class notes.
Formative:

-The teacher will keep notes of which students understand the SOL words and which
words they are comfortable in giving examples.

- The teacher will observe in the game who is the most knowledgeable students
and who are struggling

- Walk around when students are in the process of cognitive learning asking
questions and challenging their full comprehension of the word.

- Observe student’s vocabulary, schemata and overall comprehension of the

SOL words

Summative:

- The following class the teacher will ask the students if they need help with
any SOL words and provide answers to the words they seemed to
struggle on the day before.
- The teacher will then have students write out examples of SOL words for
further review

References: N/A

Appended Materials: N/A

Remedial-

-The teacher will give these students an easier SOL words to define

- The teacher will help and explain overall meaning of the SOL words

- The teacher may give few examples and answers of SOL words
Intermediate-

- Students will have to define and give examples of SOL words

- Students will have to connect the SOL words to novels
- Students will have to do all the brainstorming.

Advance-

- Students have to use examples from other SOL words to describe an SOL word

- Students will have to explain how this word could be used in a novel they read
for the semester

Content Organizer for Lesson Development (90 Minutes)

 epic
 tragedy
 comedy
 sonnet/other poetry
 essay
 journals/diaries
 satire
 rhetorical question
 sarcasm
 satire
 parallelism
 connotation/denotation
 pun
 irony
 literal and figurative language
 tone
 word choice (diction)
 dialect
 hero/heroine
 rugged individualist
 trickster
 innocent
 faithful companion
 outsider
 Mother Earth
 misfit
 rebel

 villain
 caretaker