XU Childhood Education and Literacy Lesson Plan – Middle and Early Childhood Education

Name Maiya Espinosa

Topic(s) Key ideas and details in passages

Summary Students will open Schoology to view the video about setting and
reading the passage, “A New Home”. Students will, with their
knowledge of setting, will watch EDPuzzle then answer a discussion
board question about the importance of knowing how setting effects
plots, and then they will take an exit slip quiz.

Subject(s)* English Language Arts

Grade/Level* 4th grade

Time Frame 20 minutes

Context of the Lesson  Students are to watch the EDpuzzle video through Schoology
 Students should have some prior knowledge about what setting
is
 In future lessons, students will be expected to analyze and
describe setting in explicit detail while referring back to the
passage

STANDARDS AND KEY CONCEPTS

Ohio New Learning RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on
specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
Standards*

Student Objectives By the end of this lesson, students…

- Will be able to understand what setting is.
- will be able to define setting
- Will be able to describe setting in detail
- Will be able to report setting explicitly from text

PERFORMANCE TASKS AND ASSESSMENT

Performance Activities/ ACTIVITIES/PROCEDURES:
Procedures
 1.) Each student should get into Schoology with the access code.
Sequence of Activities 2.) Students should begin the video with headphones and watch
Essential Questions the video and answer the questions that go with it
3.) Students should then discuss with me any questions they had
and what they liked about the EDPuzzle
4.) Students should then open the discussion and answer the
question to why setting is so important in a plot
5.) Students will then receive an exit slip quiz on setting
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
 What is setting?
 How does setting effect the plot?
 How does setting effect the character/s?
 Does every story need setting?

Assessment/Rubrics To measure and document that students obtained the proper

knowledge about setting, an exit slip will be administered that ask
students to identify setting out of a multiple choice of options.

Differentiated Instruction Students who may have trouble reading or working with the computer,
the teacher can work with them through the lesson one on one and
describe what they should be looking for.
Regardless, students will still be able to grasp the necessary knowledge
about setting to meet the expectations and complete the exit slip.

Technology Integration EDPuzzle video (through schoology)

Discussion board (through schoology)

Resources/Materials MATERIALS: Student devices, preferably the COWs, highlighter, pencil

https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/5beac182127779404dcc7323/watc
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Exit Slip
Complete the following questions. Read each answer option carefully.

1. What is setting?
a. the time and place in which the events in the passage happened
b. the main events of a passage
c. a person in a passage

2. Which is an example of setting?

a. the future
b. a classroom
c. Henry Danger
d. both A and B