Name: Eric Davis

Date: April 3, 2012 To teach the form and function of the passive voice, as used in the English language. The students will be able to recognize models of it in a reading and understand its use and purpose. By using a warm-up activity about authors, as well as an article about Ernest Hemingway, the students will discuss the authors and the life of Hemingway. The teacher will have the students elicit model sentences of Passive Voice and then the form, function and label of the grammar.

Lesson Aims:

Lesson Objectives:

Level: Warm-up activity sheet; Ernest Hemingway article; mp3 player and speaker Teaching Resources: Anticipated Problems/Suggestions: The students may not be able to elicit the function or the label of the passive voicestem elicit if needbe. Timing- I may not be able to cover it all in the allotted 15 minutesdont use all the CCQs or only go over the form of 1 or 2 sentences.

Stage of Lesson/Objectives: Presentation: Setting the Scene: Students will complete a worksheet activity matching authors to the books they wrote. The students will discuss in pairs who wrote what to get them on the topic of authors.

Time: 2 mins.

Teacher Activity: Instruct and mime partners: I have a warm-up activity for you. With your partner next to you, complete the activity by matching the authors on the left to their novels on the right. For example, J.K. Rowling, what did she write? Ohhh, Harry Potter. Do this for all of the authors. Pass out the papers. Feedback and check answers.

Student Activity/Interaction: T-S/S-S Students will listen to the teachers instructions. They will work in pairs and discuss the correct matching of authors and novels while completing the activity.

Name: Eric Davis Stage of Lesson/Objectives: Reading Activity: Students will read an article and try to answer a focus question. Elicit Model Sentences: 5 mins. Students will work off the teachers prompts to elicit the model sentences for the Passive Voice. Elicit- Hemingway was fascinated by war. What were Hemingways interests? Why did Hemingway leave the Star newspaper? Why did he want to become a soldier? Please read the sentence. Write, Hemingway was fascinated by war. Time: 3 mins. Teacher Activity: Instruct: I have an article. I want you to read the article by yourself. Try to find the answer to the question, How did Ernest Hemingways father die? When you find the answer, write it at the bottom of your paper. Pass out paper. Focus question feedback- killed himself with a shotgun.

Date: April 3, 2012 Student Activity/Interaction: T-S/ S solo Students will listen to the instructions, read the text and find the answer to the focus question. Students will then answer the questions to elicit the model sentences. Possible Answers Nature, outdoors, music, war To go to war Fascinated by war

Elicit- His most successful book, For Whom the Bell Tolls, was written in 1940. What books did Hemingway write about war? When did he write, For Whom the Bell Tolls? Please read the sentence. Write, His most successful book, For Whom the Bell Tolls, was written in 1940. Elicit- In October of the same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. What happened to Hemingway in 1954? Did anything else happen that year? Please read the sentence. Write, In October of the same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940.

Two plane crashes Nobel Prize

Name: Eric Davis Stage of Lesson/Objectives: Elicit Function: Using CCQs the teacher will get the students to elicit the function of Passive Voice. Time: 3 mins. Teacher Activity: Elicit Function CCQs In the first sentence, what is the action? Who or what did the action? Draw Importance Scale On a scale of importance, is the action or who did the action more important? In the second sentence, what is the action? Who or what did the action? Does the sentence say that Hemingway did it? Why not? Which is more important, the action or who did it? In the last sentence, what is the action? Who or what did the action? Does the sentence tell us? Why not? Which is more important, the action or who did it? Write function, To show the importance of an action and not who did it. In this sentence, what is Hemingway? - subject Whats fascinated? - verb What form is it in? verb3 Whats the other verb? was What kind of verb is it? auxiliary What form is it in? verb 2 Repeat for other 2 sentences if time allows.

Date: April 3, 2012 Student Activity/Interaction:

Was fascinated War The action is more important Was written Hemingway No Its not important Action Was awarded Dont know; Nobel Prize committee; No Its not important action

Elicit Form: Using CCQs, the teacher will get the students to elicit the form of a passive voice sentence.

2 mins.

Name: Eric Davis Stage of Lesson/Objectives: Elicit Label: Using CCQs the teacher will get the students to elicit the label of the grammar. Time: 1 min. Teacher Activity: In these sentences, what action did the subject do? If the subject is not active, then it is __________? And we are talking in the Passive __________. Write the label, Passive Voice.

Date: April 3, 2012 Student Activity/Interaction: