Cooperative Learning Lesson Plan
I.   Class Description
       This 4th grade class has 24 students with 2 that have writing-dysgraphia and 1 English
       Language Learner.
 II.   Subject/Skill
       English, Book Review
III.   Objectives
       Students will share notes to demonstrate their listening when reading the book.
       Students will review James and the Giant Peach in an interactive way.
       Students should be able to use notes and ideas from one another to help write an essay.
IV.    Procedures
       1. Students will share ideas and knowledge through Jigsaw II to review for tests and write
       an essay.
       2. I will re-show the powerpoint of the characters with their name and a picture so they
       can easily recall who their character is and have the correct spelling. The purpose of this
       lesson is to review for a character test and to help write an essay where they will choose
       their favorite character, describe why they choose them/how they relate to them, their
       favorite things about them, and one important thing they may learn from that character
       and what it means to them.
       3.We will be playing Jigsaw II today for this lesson. There will be 3 groups of 6 students
       created and each student in the group will be given a character. Each student will then go
       and find the students from the other 2 remaining groups that have the same character as
       them. They will share with one another who the character is and things they did in the
       story and things they found interesting about that character. The students will then return
        to their group after about 20-25 mins and share with their group what they learned about
        their character.
  V.    Materials
        Laptops, notebooks, pencils, James and the Giant Peach book
 VI.    Grouping Structures
        Jigsaw II to review in 3 groups of 6 amongst the classroom
VII.    Modifications
        There are 2 students with writing-dysgraphia and they will be able to work in the groups
        alongside everyone else except they will be given laptops to take notes on rather than
        writing them into a notebook. There is also one English Language Learner in the class
        and they’ll also be given a laptop but they will have a document created with pictures of
        the characters and sentences already given for their character in both english and their
        primary language and they’ll be able to have both and can have a better understanding in
        both languages.
VIII.   Assessment
        Students will then return to their desk and the teacher will put up large post-its on board
        for each and call on students and have them share one thing they have about a character.
        This will show the type of material students have to use for their upcoming lesson.
        Students will be assigned a review character worksheet that will be similar to the
        upcoming test. They will also begin their rough draft of their character paper.