Lesson Plan Two

Tom Sawyer

Created by Eleanor Enga             Total Time: 50 minutes

Lesson Overview: Lesson two will cover chapters 1-3. The lesson will introduce Mark Twain’s use of dialect and slang, viewpoint, and setting. Students will use e-mail to address the three topics utilizing comprehension, synthesis, and evaluation skills.

Standards Based Goal: Students will effectively evaluate, analyze, and form conclusions based on Mark Twain's work while learning the basic skills needed for distance learning.

          Click here for South Dakota Language Arts Standards addressed in this course.

Student Objectives:

1. Students will evaluate the use of setting in an author’s work.

2. Students will analyse language techniques authors use to bring     characters to life. (dialect and slang)

3. Students will form conclusions of a character based on the author’s description of the character’s actions.

 

Prerequisite Skills: Students will need to know how to use e-mail , have read the assignment, and reviewed Vtel protocol.

 

Time Sequence

Sequence of Activities

Indicators of Engaged Learning

Notes

Technical Considerations

Resources

5 minutes

 

10 minutes

 

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15 minutes

 

 

 

10 minutes

Opening: Each site will answer roll call by one student describing their site’s setting.

PowerPoint introduction of lesson. Use of dialect on page 12, par. 11. Call on students to interpret.

Activity: Each site finds 3 examples of slang from chapter 1-3. Report back in 3 minutes using document camera. One site reads their example and the other side interprets.

Show PPT "…work consists…."

Activity: Response cards. Write an example of work on one side and an example of play on the other. Compare cards to see if someone’s work was another person’s play. "How does this relate to the whitewashing incident?

Discuss point of view.

Remarks on last assignment.Assign:Read chapters 4-11

http://hanmo.com/history.html  

http://hanmo.com/mtwain.html

PPT Lesson Two, slide handout

 

 

Clock, paper, markers

 

 

 

 

Index cards

 

Enlarged copy of a good example of last week’s assignment.

Glossary

Special Considerations:   Students will need access to the internet to utilize the web sites.

Copies of slides are available to use on the document camera if the slide show does not work.  Student handouts can also be used as a substitution.  The student syllabus will contain the assignment and assessment requirements.

 

Assessment:

1. Rewrite the dialogue from slide 2 using today’s common language and slang.

2. Write a paragraph describing the setting of this book.

3. What is your opinion of Sid? Explain how the author influenced your opinion.

Lesson Two Rubric - Word Document
Lesson Two Rubric - PDF Format

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