Lesson Plan Day One

Daily Topic: The Louisiana PurchaseLanguage Arts Objectives: Students will be able to construct a news article in Publisher describing his or her opinion of the benefits of the Louisiana Purchase. Materials Needed: Notebook Pen/Pencil Publisher Computer Access with Internet Procedures: 1. Students will listen and watch as the teacher demonstrates how to use Publisher. 2. The students will begin to brainstorm ideas on what they would like their opinion article to be about. 3. After brainstorming, the students will begin to construct their opinion news article in Publisher. 4. After completion, each student will submit his or her article for grading. Technology Activity The technology activity for the students will be creating a news article on Publisher. Accommodation for students with: Special Needsstudents will receive additional time and extra assistance. Non-Nativebilingual assistance will be available Giftedstudents will be required to submit their opinion articles to a Language Arts writing competition.

Evaluation

Writing : Newspaper Article

Teacher Name: Ms. Rabito

Student Name: ________________________________________ CATEGORY Sentences & Paragraphs 4 Sentences and paragraphs are complete, wellconstructed and of varied structure. The Article is 10 or more sentences. 3 All sentences are complete and wellconstructed (no fragments, no runons). Paragraphing The Article is 8-9 sentences. 2 Most sentences are complete and wellconstructed. Paragraphing needs some work. The Article is 5-7 sentences. 1 Many sentence fragments or run-on sentences OR paragraphing needs lots of work. The Article is less than 5 sentences.

Length

Capitalization and Punctuation

Writer makes no errors in capitalization and punctuation. Article is typed, clean, not wrinkled, and is easy to read with no distracting error corrections. It Ideas were expressed in a clear and organized fashion. It was easy to figure out what

Writer makes 1-2 errors in capitalization and punctuation. Article is neatly hand-written, clean, not wrinkled, and is easy to read with no distracting Ideas were expressed in a pretty clear manner, but the organization could

Writer makes 3-4 errors in capitalization and punctuation. Article is typed and is crumpled or slightly stained. It may have 1-2 distracting error Ideas were somewhat organized, but were not very clear. It took more than one

Writer makes more than 4 errors in capitalization and punctuation. Article is typed and looks like it had been shoved in a pocket or locker. It may have several The letter seemed to be a collection of unrelated sentences. It was very difficult to

Neatness

Ideas

Date Created: Apr 28, 2014 02:02 pm (CDT)