Lesson Planning

Lesson ideas

Lesson idea one: 

Grade level: 9th-12th grade class

Objective:  Students will participate in a class discussion about the current book or text being read, through the discussion they will learn to contextualize and evaluate their own ideas about the text.  

Idea:  

1.  have the text or portion of the book already read.

2.  Each person in the class will submit a thought question they would like discussion on the blog forum, and submit this question to the teacher through the blog.
3.  The teacher will then choose the question they feel is the best question for this section, but still through the year or unit allowing for many people to get a chance.  

4. The class will then be given the question on the blog, and each student must respond to the question in not less than 100 words but not more than 500.  

5. The day after the posts have been submitted the classes reading for that night will be to read the posts by their classmates and pick out they found the most interesting and share in class.  

This lesson is a way to encourage a in-class discussion by allowing students a chance to write their idea before they discuss and to put out questions they would like to see answered by their classmates.  

Lesson idea(s) two:

Grade level: 8th grade

Objective:  Students will learn how to create a digital portfolio and see how they have progressed throughout a unit, term, or year.  

Idea: Relating to a unit on literature

1. Students will use the Blog for assignments such as quick writes, and short essays.   
2. Also students will use the blog for discussion and keep copies of these for their portfolio later. 
3. Students will create "Character Posts" where they make a post as a Character about a situation that took place in the book, and make it like a journal entry.  
4. Students will make posts about the book that employ the use of video, or audio displaying technology skills and to show some creativity in their post.  
5. Students will make a post(s) that finds articles in recent newspapers or on websites that relate to a topic discussed in the book.