Writing E - Section B
Week 5 – Narrative Style
Lesson 2 of 4

Date: February 7, 2001
Time: 65 minutes
Location: SH 335 11:30-12:35
Class size/No. of students: 17
Countries Represented: China, Cuba, Japan, Korea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and UAE.
Lesson Objectives:

    1. apply the basic rules of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and paragraph form to in-class writings
    2. write sentences that describe events depicted in a series of pictures
    3. use basic connectors (and, but, so, or) to join ideas in simple and complex sentences
    4. use the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs in classroom writings
Previous Lesson: The previous lesson introduced the idea of writing a narrative style paragraph. Students listened to a story and identified the important components including, who/what/when/where, time-order-transition signals, and the basic sequence of events. In groups, the students then manipulated a strip story into the correct order while also identifying irrelevant sentences. The grammar focus was on regular and irregular past tense verbs (worksheet). HW: Sentence worksheet--students read a sentence and then write one or two more sentences about what happened next.

Materials: Verb quiz, pictures that tell a story, overheads, HW handout.

Lesson Plan
 
  Time:
Stage:
Activity:
Teacher:
Students:
1 5 min. House-
keeping		 Basic classroom vocabulary and activity. Roll Call.
Describe what today’s plan will be.		 Ss greet each other and the teacher. Pay attention to today’s lesson plan.
2 10 min Short Quiz Quick quiz on the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs. Pass out and explain the directions of the quiz.  Follow the directions, ask questions if needed, and take quiz 
3 10 min Homework Checking Pair work Walk around and make sure students are on task. Answer questions if any.  Ss compare, analyze, and discuss homework sentences.
4 5 min Warm-up Review Review what a narrative is. Elicit key points talked about last class. Ss answer questions and volunteer key information from the last class.
5 10 min Modeling Whole-class activity. Model the picture story activity Pass out the picture. Tell students we are going to make a story (sentence by sentence) based on the pictures. Write the paragraph on the board using student generated sentences (if this is too difficult, I have a completed model story on an overhead). Students generate sentences that reflect the events in the pictures. Make a paragraph as a whole class (or follow along with the overhead story)
6 20 min Picture Story Activity Group work Post picture stories around the room. Direct students to get into groups or pairs and stand by a story picture. Tell students that they are going to write a sentence for each picture that tells events depicted in the story. They must pay attention to the sentences Ss have written before them. The goal is to make a paragraph that tells the story in the pictures. Remember: past tense, time-order, connectors, and paragraph form. T walks around and checks. Tell Ss that we will revise the picture paragraphs next class. Students get into groups and travel from picture to picture writing sentences. Ss will make sure that the sentences together tell the stories in paragraph form. Ss try to use simple and complex sentences using connectors. They will also focus on time-order and the sequence of events.
7 5 min Wrap-up Assign Homework Give and explain the pre-writing homework handout about compiling information about an interesting event from students’ lives.  Listen to the HW explanation, ask questions if any

Next Lesson: In the next lesson the students will revise the paragraphs they collectively wrote during the picture story activity. I hope that revising the collective works will allow students to feel invested in and more comfortable with the revision process. After that, the students will work in pairs asking and answering questions about the interesting story notes they did for homework. They will follow steps to help each other add necessary and interesting information to their notes. The students will use their revised notes to write the first draft of their narrative style paragraph due Monday.

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Created by: Leslie L. Wiles (Siebert)