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The Mississippi Skeiks are coming to our town¡

The Mississippi Skeiks are coming to our town next Tuesday, as part of their “Rock my Boat” tour. The tour has been a total blast all over the country, and even on some parts of Canada¡

Bo Carter the vocalist of the group, expressed to be very interesting in playing on one of America`s fun-needing county.

Mississippi Skeiks have prepared also some covers like” Happy days are here again” of Ben Selvin, “ Puttin on the Ritz” of Harry Richman and more top songs from de decade¡

The group promises every Maycomb will sing and dance like there is no tomorrow. Tickets are available for sale next Maycomb`s primary school. Prices goes from 10 dollars to 75 dollars.

This is one in a lifetime chance, don`t you miss it. Skeiks are waiting for you¡

Assessment criteria:

1)      Quality of ideas( content, setting, critical thinking)

The setting is related with the book to kill a mockingbird, the town called Maycomb( Alabama), south of North America, but I would have included a context, specially society, culture, historical period, fiction related with the book, with themes talking about rape, racial discrimination, destruction of the innocence, class, courage, compassion, and roles of the human race.

2)      Organization ( test type, linking devices, paragraphs, sentences type)

Test type: a piece of news, but It’ s missing the subtitle.

Linking devices: what I found is:  as part of, even on, also.

Linking devices have been absent, to make contrasting points: although, however, nevertheless, yet, while, despite, even if, at the same time, but, in spite of.

To express cause: because of, owing to, due to, .

To express effect: therefor, thus, as a result,.

To add more point on a topic: also, apart from, too, furthermore, what is more.

To express reality: actually, in fact, as a matter of fact.

Paragraphs: the type used in this notice is persuasion, I think is very interesting because is used for capture the attention of people and motivate them to buy tickets for the concert.

However is only one paragraph, you should have used more than one.

Sentence types:

The Mississippi Skeiks are coming to our town next Tuesday, as part of their” Rock my Boat” tour. Complex sentence.

The tour has been a total blast all over the country, and even on some parts of Canada¡ Compound sentence.

Bo Carter, the vocalist of the group, expressed to be very interesting in playing on one of America’s most fun-needing county. Simple sentence.

Mississippi Skeiks have prepared also some covers like “Happy days are here again” of Ben Selvin, “ Puttin on the Ritz” of Harry Richman and more top songs from the decade. Compound sentence.

The group promises every Maycomb inhabitant will sing and dance like is there no tomorrow. Compound sentence.

Tickets are available for sale next to Maycomb’s primary school. Compound sentence.

Prices goes from 10 dollars to 75 dollars. Simple sentence.

This is one in a lifetime chance, don`t you miss it. Simple and imperative sentence.

Skeiks are waiting for you¡. Simple and exclamatory sentence.

You included sentence types but I also  would have included compound- complex sentences.

3)      Language( grammar, vocabulary, rhetorical devices)

I think that grammar is ok, but it is not very well structured, because there are not linking devices.

Vocabulary is ok but I would have included vocabulary related with the social context, cultural and historical period of the book (South of North America) , for example words related with racism, rape, innocence and fiction.

Rhetorical devices:

The group promises every Maycomb inhabitant will sing and dance like there is not tomorrow. Comparison.

“ Happy days are here again”. Alliteration.

Prices  goes from 10 dollars to 75 dollars. Repetition.

I did not find some much rhetorical devices like metaphors (it directly says something is something else for example: your eyes are two stars, hyperbole( the use of an exaggeration) , personification (giving human traits to non-living objects), so you should have included some of these rhetorical devices.

However my score is a 7.

Lesson plan template speaking

Content: 

Grade: second grade of a secondary school.

Unit plan topic: letters.

Lesson plan title: kind of written communication, doing letters about vacation places, using simple past, heading, greeting, body and closure.

Class period length: 90 minutes.

Objectives:

They will be able to develop higher cognitive skills by doing letters.

They will have to demonstrate previous knowledge about vocabulary , grammar, listening and reading.

They will develop their effective communication skills (written, oral, interpersonal , group).

How will I gain students attention?

Introducing examples of the activity that students will have to do, with different pictures which show a particular vacation place.so I will motivate them to talk about their vacations, help them to speak correctly and fluently in the activity.

How will I recall prior relevant information?

In the activity of write a letter and then speak it , they will have to apply their previous knowledge about grammar, vocabulary  and reading.

How will I present new material?

I will introduce examples of letters with pictures, so each picture will demonstrate the vacation place about what the letter says.

Announcements:

How will I elicit performance?

Through the activity I will motivate them to work in class, to participate, to share the written letters between classmates , talking about their vacations. So the activity is the following:

First I will motivate them  asking them what kind of written communication we use, so I will write the answers on the blackboard:

1)     Memorandum

2)     Reports

3)     Notices

4)     Posters.

5)     Advertisements

6)     Emails

7)     Diary

8)     Blogs

9)     Journals.

Then I will introduce different examples of letters, in which a person talks about her/his vacations to a friend. for each letter I will introduce a picture which shows the vacation place and I will ask them about the relationship between the persons that are mentioned in the letters. ( the relationship will be friendship. )

                                                                                                                                   July 21st

Hello Anita

How are you? I hope you are ok.  I can`t believe my trip is almost over. I came to Easter Island just two weeks ago. I was with a group from the university. We stayed with families that live on the island. We studied the stone statues, called moai, and the cave paintings. I really learned a lot. I am tired, but I loved every minute of my trip.

Take care, Margaret.

PS: On Easter Island, Iorana means “hello”.

                                                                                                                                        May 2nd               

Hi, Luis!

How has your vacations been? My Hawaiian vacation just ended, and I am very well rested! I spent my whole vacation at a spa. Every day for a week, I exercised, did yoga, meditated, and ate vegetarian food. I also went swimming and snorkeling. I feel fantastic! I am looking forward to seeing you soon.

Love Debbie.

         

                                                                                                                                           January 3rd

Dear Michelle,

What have you been up to? Alaska is terrific! I just returned from a trip to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There were six people on the trip. We camped outside for ten days. Then we took rafts to the Arctic Ocean. I saw a lot of wildlife, including some caribou. Now, I am going to Anchorage.

See you soon!

                                                                                                                  Kevin

Then I will ask them  about what each person did on her or his vacation. So everybody will have to participate like a whole class.

Then I will explain the structure of a letter, so I will explain them how to write a letter to a friend and I will give to the students a piece of paper which includes :

Heading

In a friendly, informal letter, this is where you write the date. This goes at the top of the page on the right-hand side. You should write at the least the day and month. You may include the day of the week and the year if you choose. Some people write their address here too, but you do not have to.

Greeting

This is where you address your friend for the first time in the letter. It is very similar to greeting someone face to face.

Sample Greetings:    Dear Juan,                             Hello James,

                                               Greetings Simone,                Hola Juanita,

Body

The body of the letter is where you communicate with your friend. This is where you ask how they are doing and tell them what you are doing and feeling. In a friendly letter, it is polite to begin by asking your reader about their life. After that, you may tell them something about you.

Sample sentence starters:

           

Ask about your friend:       

                   How are you?               

                   How has your summer been?

                   What have you been up to?

                   Are you playing any sports?

                   Have you been traveling?

            And tell them about you:

                I went to Camp.

 My summer has been fun.

 This summer I…

 I have been doing…

 With my family, I went to..

Closing and Signature:

The Closing is where you end your letter and say good-bye. After that, you write the Signature (your name).

After that each students will have to write his/her own letter, using simple past, heading, greeting, body, and closing, talking about what they did on her/his vacation to a friend .so they will have to apply their previous knowledge of vocabulary, and grammar, Then each student will have to share his/her letter with some classmate focusing on their speaking, so I will help them to speak fluently , loudly and correctly. After that each of them will have to speak in front of the class about the letter what each student wrote.

How will I assess performance?

They will have to participate, applying their previous knowledge to write and create a letter and then they will have to work in pairs speaking each other about their vacations. After that they will have to speak  about the letters that they wrote, presenting it in front of the class . I will focus on rhyme and stress in speaking.

How will I enhance retention?

I will help them to practice their speaking, interacting with them , producing an optima environment, which students can show interesting and motivation.

Test questions from today’s objectives

A test which students will have to demonstrate their cognitive skills , applying previous knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, reading and listening, by the creation of any communicative tests and they will have to speak it.

Checklist:

Did students  know my objectives?

Yes, they knew from the beginning because I told them in the introduction about the objectives of this lesson.

Did students actively engaged with new material?

Yes, they showed interesting about the activity which they were motivated talking about their vacations by the creation of the letters.

Did students get feedback on the performance ance?

Yes because there was participation, interaction, motivation, there was an optima environment where everybody worked in groups interacting between them, applying their previous knowledge to new situations.

Follow up:

An oral presentation where students  will have to talk about movies.

                                                                                                                                                                                               

                         

Lesson plan template listening

Content:

Lesson plan tittle: knowledge about physical appearance and personality of people and putting missing words(prepositions of time and connectors).

Unit plan topic: Places and Famous people

Level: eight grade.

Class period length: 90 minutes.

Objectives:

They will develop their understanding about physical appearance and personality of people.

They will be able to identify preposition of time and connectors in the structure of sentences.

They will be able to recognize words and phrases in relation with past events.

Instructional procedures:

How I will gain students attention?

Through interesting pictures, a video about a particular famous person and  an audio cd which contains a description of an interesting place.

How will I recall prior relevant information?

With interesting activities which they will have to listen, for that they will have to  apply their previous knowledge about grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

How will I present new material?

Through interesting activities which I will use a video related with a famous and interesting person, through different pictures of famous people I will capture their attention, and with an audio cd about  an interesting place I will motivate them.

Announcements:

How will I elicit performance?

Through motivating activities where they will have to participate during the class, working in groups, so the activities are:

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The activities:

First I will stick pictures of different famous people on the blackboard and I will ask to the students to make predictions about them, so they will have to apply their previous knowledge about personality and physical appearance of people that we saw the last class. So they will have to participate speaking like a whole class.

Then I will focus on one  famous person and this will be princess Diana  and I will ask to the students to make predictions about her(what they know about her),so I will write the predictions made by students on the blackboard, and I will give them a worksheet where they will have to write their predictions about her. (physical appearance, personality, childhood and adulthood).

Friday21st

Write their own predictions about Princess Diana answering the following questions.

1)     What did she look like?

2)     What was she like?

3)     How was her childhood?

4)     How was her adulthood?

      

5)     How was her royal life?

After that they will listen a biography about princess Diana once and then students will have to check their predictions about her and compare them with the biography listened. So they will have to work in groups.

Then they will listen again the biography taking notes of new vocabulary and information about her. for example: about her physical appearance, personality, childhood, royal life, marriage, answering questions like:

 who was she?

what was her complete  name? 

where did she live?

What did she do in her royal life?

 where was she born?

 who did she marry with?

How many children did she have?

When was she born?

Who were her parents?

When princess Diana and princess Charles got married?

When did they have their first child?

Why did they break up?

How did she die?

http://www.biography.com/articles/Princess-Diana-9273782

After that they will have to apply the previous knowledge about prepositions and connectors, so student will have to listen a description about a famous place called Santa Cruz and they will have to fill the gap in the sentences with prepositions of time and connectors. For that I will give them a worksheet where they will have to put the missing word.

You have to fill the gap in the sentences putting the missing word.

Santa Cruz is an important agricultural center (where ) ____    wine is the main product.

Santa Cruz was founded( on) ___December 22,1891, and its history is closely tied to that of the valley in which is situated.

Has its possible origins in agricultural colonies emerged ( in) _____the mid-nineteenth century.

(After)____ incorporating different varieties (at) ____the beginning of twentieth century made the first-exports of bulk wine in barrels to Europe from colchagua wine establish definitively the nature of this value.

Santa Cruz stands out (because)_____ it has an excellent variety of vineyard and the quality of wines.

How will I assess performance?

They will have to demonstrate their previous knowledge , applying it to listening activities, they will have to work in groups participating during the class.

How will I enhance retention?

Giving assignment to the students related with listening, and I will make easier their listening comprehension helping them to practice more listening.

Test questions from today’s objectives:

A test which the students will have to listen a biography about a famous people and they will have to listen it answering question about personality of the person, childhood of that person, etc. and they will have to listen a description about a particular place putting the word that is missing in the worksheet that I will give them.

Skills:

Students will develop their listening, writing, reading and speaking skills.

Checklist:

Did students know my objectives?

The did, because first I introduce the objectives of this lesson, so without objectives  there is not lesson, so is very important that students know the objectives.

Did students actively engaged with new material?

Yes, they showed enthusiasm about the material that I used in the activities, capturing their attention and concentration.

Did students get feedback on the performance once?

Yes , they reflected motivation, they were participating during the class, so they showed interesting about the activities applying their previous knowledge to new situation of learning.

Follow up:

Students will see a film about comic where they have to order the events.

Content:

Lesson plan tittle: description of a sport and comprehension of a song about healthy life and a video about healthy foods.

 Unit Topic: Sports and Healthy Life.

Grade: first grade of a secondary school.

Class period length: 90 minutes.

Objectives:

_Students will be able to identify key words about healthy activities like sports  and healthy life.

_They will be able to value the importance of having a healthy life, having good habits of food and the importance of doing a healthy sport.

_They will demonstrate interaction and participation like a whole class.

Instructional procedures:

How will I gain students attention?

First I will present a game about bingo , so I will capture their attention, then with different and interesting material like a funny video about healthy foods, an audio cd about an interesting sport, and a funny song about healthy life.

How wil I recall prior relevant information?

Through funny and interesting activities they will have to use their previous knowledge about the sport, the meaning of a song and the meaning of a video.

How will I present new material?

First I will motivate them through a game with everybody have to participate  and I will use an audio cd , funny video and a funny song.

Announcements:

How will I elicit performance?

Trough funny and interesting activities and materials this activities consist in:

First I will write 8 words related with sports and 7 phrases related with healthy life on the blackboard, to play a bingo, then students will write 8 of them in their copybooks, then I will name the words by chance, and the winner will be the first which have the 8 words named by chance.

1)     Basketball

2)     Baseball

3)     Football

4)     Swimming

5)     Golf

6)     Tennis

7)     bowling

8)     Get enough sleeping

9)     Eat breakfast every morning

10)Take up a hobby

11)Drink water and eat dairy continued

12)Drink tea

13)Take a daily walk

14)Practice good dental hygiene.

15)Protect your skin.

After that students will listen an description about a particular sport called horse riding, so students will have to complete a card about the description of this sport. Finally students share the description between them .

name of the sport:

clothing used in this sport:

What it means saddlery and tack? name them.

Describe the horse riding guidance.

Then I will give to the students a card which contains verses of a song related with healthy life  but without the part of the choir(it expect that they don’t recognize the song until they hear it.). then I will ask to students to read it, and to comprehend the meaning of the song, writing the important idea that the song wants to express .finally the will listen the song about healthy habits called “you brush your teeth”.

http://www.songsforteaching.com/healthyhabits/brushyourteeth.htm

Well, you wake up in the morning,
It's a quarter to one and you wanna have a little fun

(Chorus:)
You wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to two
and you wanna find something to do (Chorus)

You wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to three
and you wanna flash your smile at me (Chorus)

You wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to four
and you think you hear a knock on your door (Chorus)

You wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to five
and you start to hear those birds come alive (Chorus)

You wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to six
You know you better get those teeth brushed real quick (Chorus)

You wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to seven
When I'm brushing my teeth, I'm in seventh heaven (Chorus)

You wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to eight
You better finish brushing those teeth, or you're gonna be late (Chorus)

You wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to nine
When you're brushing your teeth, you know you feel real fine (Chorus)

You wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to ten
If you want any more, you'll have to sing it again

(Chorus)

You brush your teeth (brush, brush, brush your teeth)
You brush your teeth (brush, brush, brush your teeth)
You brush your teeth - get 'em real nice and clean

      Write the meaning of the song. Why is the importance of the song?

After that I will show the students a video about healthy foods.so they will have to listen it , participating  like a whole class about the importance of this video.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBMxpDbp51A

Skills:

Listening, reading, writing and speaking.

How will I assess performance?

 They  will have to interact in the class, development their cognitive and communicative side.

How will I enhance retention?

Through practice, in each activity I will help them to develop their cognitive and communicative side.

Test questions from today’s objectives

For the test I will include the identification of words related with sports and healthy life, also they will have to demonstrate their understanding of the meaning of songs or a description of a particular sport.

Checklist:

Did students know my objectives?

Yes, they did , through the introduction of my lesson and with clear instructions for the activities.

Did students actively engaged with new material?

Yes they got engaged with the variety of material through a song, a funny video and auditory descriptions.

Did students get feedback on the performance once?

Yes, they reflect motivation, they demonstrate participation, interesting , through the activities with a variety of materials I captured their attention, applying previous knowledge.

Follow up:

They will have to see and listen a video about a film.