Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans: Descriptive Writing

Grade Level: 5th - 6th

Title of Lesson: Ellis Island: Descriptive Writing

Time Allotment: 20 Minutes

Materials Needed: The response Paper, the Bulletin Board.

NYSED Standard: Standard 1.6 English Language Arts

Listening & Reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.

* Support inferences about information and ideas with reference to text features, such as vocabulary and organizational patterns

NYSED Standard: Standard 1.4 History of the United States and New York

*The skills of historical analysis include the ability to explain the significance of historical evidence; weight the importance of changing and competing interpretations of different historical developments.

Anticipatory Set: To introduce this lesson the teacher will explain to students what a descriptive essay is. The teacher will then go over adjectives because you use those in descriptive writing.

Learning Activity:

Descriptive writing, The students will have to write a paragraph describing where they are from, how old they are, who they came over with, why they came over, what they look like, and what they are wearing. The students must incorporate at least two words from the word wall. (Working with Words) The students will have to draw a picture of themselves as if they were immigrants. I will display there work on the bulletin for everyone to see. When the students are done they will have to place their work on the bulletin “Meet the Immigrants.”

Questions:

1. What age where most immigrants when they came to America?

2. Why did most Immigrants come to America?

3. Who did most immigrants come to America with? Family? Themselves?

Practice: The teacher will share with the students her descriptive essay that way they will have no questions and they will know exactly what I am looking for. When the students find information I will have them make a sloppy copy of their mind map or story boards.

Closure: When the students are done we will have a class discussion, about what we have learned and read that particular day. The students will also be able to hang their finished products on the bulletin board.

Assessment: The students will be graded based on a rubric. See attached rubric for the grading system.

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