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Lesson Plan
Date: 17/06/2014
Lesson Topic/Focus: Writing, Religion
AusVELS Domain(s): English
AusVELS strand (s): Language
Learning Standard(s)/Outcome(s):

Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of
verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases (ACELA1523)
Today we are learning to (WALT)
Paraphrase the making connections paragraph in the Spirit filled project.
Year level(s):
LESSON PLAN

Making personal connections- Using

students diverse experiences

Assessment:
Completion Making Connections Section
Understanding how to demonstrate the gifts and fruits of the holy spirit to qualities of
individuals in their life
State methods/strategies and criteria you will use to assess student learning.
Teaching focus:
Teaching skills that the pre-service teacher would like to personally develop.
Providing adequate detail when modelling or discussion what is included in this
paragraph
Background to the learning:
References for teacher background knowledge
References for teacher background knowledge
AusVELS
Spirit filled project handout

Identify students current knowledge

Have paraphrased their biography, their work and challenges section
Discussed how to correctly use a thesaurus
Know what the fruits and gifts of the holy spirit are
Know how to apply these qualities to individual qualities/ traits of a person (Qualities
section)
Lesson resources:
Chrome books
Interactive Whiteboard
Research
Spirit filled project handout

Lesson content:
Introduction

Making connections

5 mins
For the making connections section of the spirit filled project, you are asked to identify
someone in your life that shares the same qualities, gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Break down what is to be included in this paragraph (use a students example if someone in
the class has completed this section to a high standard.
1. Identify who in your life shares the same qualities of the holy spirit as your chosen
person
2. Use this as your topic sentence. Example
(name) shares the same fruits and gifts of the holy spirit as _____.
3. How are they similar? How does this person show the same qualities?
4. What fruits and gifts do you have in common with this spirit filled person
Personal qualities that both you and your researched person/ organisation
share
Development
5 mins
Explore/elaborate/restructure/develop the concepts, understandings, skills or attitudes;
teaching and learning strategies that will be used to achieve this; summarise (list instructions)
approaches or activities to be used; list the key questions to use
Ensure that you are incorporating all four points in your paragraph
Consolidation, practice, extension

Closure
Share time

Students are to then go off and paraphrase their Making Connections

paragraph.
5 mins

some student may share their paragraph with the class

Sharing diverse
while the student reads their work, ask other students
experiences- demonstrates
to think about whether they have included the three
to students that we are all
points within their paragraph
unique
Ask students whether they have included all three
points
I want everyone to finish what they are doing- if you have not completed the
Qualities paragraph, this is to be done for homework. This will be checked on
Thursday.
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30 mins