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Learning Objectives & Content Standard Alignment - Selects, creates, and sequences learning
experiences and performance tasks that support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals based on
content standards.
Assessment - Uses assessment flexibly to expand and deepen understanding of learner performance and
determines best supports for continued learner growth.
Instructional Materials and Resources - Stays current in content knowledge and expands expertise in
reviewing instructional materials from the perspectives of both the discipline and individual learner needs.
Instructional Methods: Selects, creates, and sequences learning experiences and performance tasks by
using a variety of instructional approaches, strategies, and technologies that make learning accessible to all
learners and support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals.
Teaching and Learning Sequence Instructional Decisions /
Part One: Launch (20 minutes) Reasoning
(1) The teacher will state the lesson objective. (2) The
teacher will present the slideshow on good beginnings.
Questions to ask students in part one: What are some
things that your introduction should have? How do some of
your favorite books start?
(A.A)) The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the
action narrow, moonlit lane.
Thought/Feeling- That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on
(M.S.) me. Thought/Feeling
Thought The whole cupcake thing started a couple of years ago on my tenth
B.P birthday.
E.K. - action The floating sheets of the arctic ice were slowly freezing together,
threatening to crush the small sailing ship.
Thought The residents of the gleaming hilltop town of Asteri called their home
G.P. simply,the City.
S.F. - Action A flock of black birds soared, Gathered , then landed one after
another in the trees near maggie. She paused in her walk up the hill
blocked her eyes against the spring sun, and counted.
C.P. Action I used to be the littlest one in my family until I grew. Most kids grow up.
I didnt. I grew out my front and down my rear, in my chest and butt
and especially in my belly.
Dialogue. S.W. Mella! Hurry and fetch the eggs! said mama
J.G. In fairy tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks,
Action and they ride on broomsticks.
THOUGHT Rebecca Roush has cooties. Im not making this up. Weve run tests.
E.O.
M.R. There were only about fifteen kids on the late bus because it was a
friday afternoon.
(A.G.) - action There were only about fifteen kids on the late bus because it was
Friday afternoon. I sat near the back with Stephen, and he kept
pestering me.
Learning Objectives & Content Standard Alignment - Selects, creates, and sequences
learning experiences and performance tasks that support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum
goals based on content standards.
Instructional Materials and Resources - Stays current in content knowledge and expands
expertise in reviewing instructional materials from the perspectives of both the discipline and individual
learner needs.
Materials, Resources, and/or Technology Instructional Decisions /
Despicable Me foreshadowing Reasoning
The Sweetest Fig
Students will need computers to do exit ticket (google
forms)
The teacher will need to create an exit ticket using
google forms. Questions to include: What is
foreshadowing? (Short answer) and what is an example
of foreshadowing?
Instructional Methods: Selects, creates, and sequences learning experiences and performance
tasks by using a variety of instructional approaches, strategies, and technologies that make learning
accessible to all learners and support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals.
I think this lesson was by far my best one yet. Students maintained high levels of engagement
throughout the lesson and seemed very excited. The exit ticket backed up my feeling that
students really understood foreshadowing. 19-22 students answered all questions on the exit
ticket correctly. The remaining students had some minor errors in their answers. These
students will have many more opportunities to strengthen their understanding of
foreshadowing as we discuss this in our reading groups very often. If I were to teach this
lesson again I would instruct students not to have their hand raised while other students were
called on to discuss examples of foreshadowing in The City of Ember. I noticed that many
students were so eager to share their example that they were frantically raising their hand and
they were not listening to their classmates examples.