Topic: Class: Date:
Revision process English 10 Tuesday Oct. 25
for 3rd block and
Wednesday Oct.
26 for 6th block
Content Objectives: Language Objectives:
Students will be able to Students will revise sentences in their
incorporate specific rough drafts to incorporate more specific
details into their writing. details from the short story they chose to
Students will be able to write about.
identify common Students will identify common errors
grammatical errors, within their writing and will work
including sentence collaboratively to correct these errors.
fragments, in their
writing.
Key Vocabulary: Materials (including supplementary and
adapted):
Content Vocabulary: PowerPoint presentation detailing ways to
Fragments incorporate specific details into writing
Examples of fragments and tricks for
Cross-Curricular Vocabulary: identifying and correcting them
Revision
Higher-Order Questions:
How can including more specific details from the text help me to better
illustrate my arguments to the reader?
Lesson Sequence Activities
1) Vocabulary chapter 4
warm-up Building Background
2) Students will identify the
fragments in sample Explicit Links to Past Learning: In discussing
writing. sentence fragments, I will remind students that
we discussed these in tandem with the concepts
of dependent and independent clauses last week.
Lesson Sequence Student Activities (Check all that apply for
3) Students will turn to their activities throughout lesson):
own essays to proofread
for fragments and other Scaffolding: Teacher Modeling Guided
common errors. (Small Group/Partner)
4) I will show students some Independent (I watch and
methods for correcting respond; You do independently)
sentence fragments and
model how to do so with Grouping: Whole Class Small Group
several examples on the Partners Independent
overhead projector.
5) Students will practice with Language Processes: Reading Writing
correcting the fragments Listening Speaking
in their own papers.
6) I will then show students Strategies: Hands-on Meaningful
ways in which they can Links to Objectives
incorporate specific
details in their writing. Review and Assessment (Check all that
7) Students will highlight all apply):
of the specific details in
their writing so far. They Individual Group Written Oral
will then make a list of
what areas they need to (Include methods of assessment throughout
add specific details to. Lesson Sequence)
8) Students will spend the
rest of the period working Review Key Vocabulary: How and When?
independently on their I will go over the concept of fragments with the
papers to incorporate students in the warm-up activity before they find
more specific details and these in their own writing. I will explain how they
correct any common can detract from the full effect of their writing.
errors.
Review Key Content Concepts: How and When?
I will review the concept of revision at the
beginning of class following the warm-up
activities. I will tell students that today we will be
continuing the revision process that we began
last class.
Review of all content and language objectives:
How and When?
I will keep my objectives posted on the dry erase
board so that they are visible throughout the
lesson. I will review them with the students
following the vocabulary warm-up in step 1.
