Lesson Aim: to use a lexical approach in reading an informational text. Ss will be introduced to 9 vocabulary words, lexical categories, root words, word families, what words they co-occur with, and how to use the words in a sentence. They will do research on the topic online and then write an essay related to the text. They will have an opportunity to practice writing an essay with a main idea and supporting details. Students will be required to cite something in the text at least once in their essays.
Warm-up:
Welcome!
Ss converse in pairs about their summer. They must thing of one word to describe their summer!
Each person reports their partner's word.
Informational Text: The Evolution of the Grocery Bag BRING IN A PRODUCT CODE (UPC). Realia
• Ss read silently.
• T asks, What's a good title for this text?
• THINKALOUD
frustration, manually, appeal, fascinated, versatile, commercially, patented, paradigm, preclude
• Ss circle each of the nine words in their text.
• Ss write each word on a piece of paper at their table.
• T draws chart on board.
• Ss volunteer to come up to board and tape word in correct part of speech in chart
• Teacher models filling in another POS. Example: fascinated – fascinating
• Ss volunteer, two or three at a time to write in other POS in chart.
SCAFFOLDING:
• in a future class, each S can take one of the words and find root word, suffix, prefix, how to make other POS from word, how to uese a word in a sentence, collocations, etc.
• Chart: label d.o., i.o, preposition, verb, etc. Start with nouns and verbs and then scaffold up to other POS as the term goes on.
Questions for discussion:
What does patent mean?
• word family/morphology: to patent / to patent something / patent(s) ( verb, d.o., noun)
• What kind of things do you think are patented?
• Is a patent related to an invention?
• What are your favorite inventions that have been patented? photocopies, post-it notes
Techsection
• Google: list of best patents in history
• Research one of the patents
• Which do you think was most useful? Why?
Writing
• Ss write an essay about the patent they researched.
• Main idea: Ask Ss to write down their main idea on a separate piece of paper.
• Supporting details: why do you think this patent was important? Give reasons.
• Why is it more useful than other patents?
• Ss must cite text (mention something from text) in their essay.
EXAMPLE: In the first paragraph, the writer talks about how the useful the paper bag was. It helped people go through the checkout line faster. http://listverse.com/2008/03/31/10-really-great-american-patents/ http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/tp/topteninvention.htm
Mathsection:
• Have ss create a small paper bag out of photocopy paper from recycling box.
T could measure (photocopy rulers with cm measurement)
• T draws diagram of flat paper bag on board and assigns letters to all the dimensions (panels) of bag.
Warm-up:
Welcome!
Ss converse in pairs about their summer. They must thing of one word to describe their summer!
Each person reports their partner's word.
Informational Text: The Evolution of the Grocery Bag
BRING IN A PRODUCT CODE (UPC). Realia
• Ss read silently.
• T asks, What's a good title for this text?
• THINKALOUD
frustration, manually, appeal, fascinated, versatile, commercially, patented, paradigm, preclude
• Ss circle each of the nine words in their text.
• Ss write each word on a piece of paper at their table.
• T draws chart on board.
• Ss volunteer to come up to board and tape word in correct part of speech in chart
• Teacher models filling in another POS. Example: fascinated – fascinating
• Ss volunteer, two or three at a time to write in other POS in chart.
SCAFFOLDING:
• in a future class, each S can take one of the words and find root word, suffix, prefix, how to make other POS from word, how to uese a word in a sentence, collocations, etc.
• Chart: label d.o., i.o, preposition, verb, etc. Start with nouns and verbs and then scaffold up to other POS as the term goes on.
Questions for discussion:
What does patent mean?
• word family/morphology: to patent / to patent something / patent(s) ( verb, d.o., noun)
• What kind of things do you think are patented?
• Is a patent related to an invention?
• What are your favorite inventions that have been patented? photocopies, post-it notes
Techsection
• Google: list of best patents in history
• Research one of the patents
• Which do you think was most useful? Why?
Writing
• Ss write an essay about the patent they researched.
• Main idea: Ask Ss to write down their main idea on a separate piece of paper.
• Supporting details: why do you think this patent was important? Give reasons.
• Why is it more useful than other patents?
• Ss must cite text (mention something from text) in their essay.
EXAMPLE: In the first paragraph, the writer talks about how the useful the paper bag was. It helped people go through the checkout line faster.
http://listverse.com/2008/03/31/10-really-great-american-patents/
http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/tp/topteninvention.htm
Mathsection:
• Have ss create a small paper bag out of photocopy paper from recycling box.
T could measure (photocopy rulers with cm measurement)
• T draws diagram of flat paper bag on board and assigns letters to all the dimensions (panels) of bag.