270 Lesson Plan Case Study 1

Overview of Lesson The five elements of a Short Story
Description of
Learners
There are 25 students in the class
The class consists of 6th and 7th grade students between the
ages 12-14.
There are 13 boys and 12 girls in the classroom.
These students have had 2-3 years of English classwork with
low to moderately low speaking and understanding abilities.
There is one whiteboard available in classroom.
Projector and internet accessible to the teacher and students.
Intended Learning
Goals
Students should be able to identify and successfully use the five
elements of a short story:
Plot
Character
Conflict
Theme
Setting
Lesson Content The teacher will show a video clip of a educational rap about
the five elements
The teacher will read a story to the students for about eight
minutes.
The teacher and the students together will identifying the five
elements of the story we read
Students will write their own short story and share with a
partner
Short quiz on matching the 5 elements
Learning
Objectives
Given the description of the five elements in the educational
Youtube rap video, students will be able to identify what the
five elements and what they are from the story we read
together.
Given the short story the teacher has read, the students will be
able to identify the five elements and summarize them within
two to three sentences.
Given the previously learned elements, students will be able to
successfully match the descriptions of the elements to their
terms.
Given the assistance of the informational video and the class
discussion work, the students will be able to write a short story
using the five elements within ten minutes.

Standards Listening and Speaking
ELL I-V
The students will
express orally his or her own thinking
and ideas (ELL-L&S-1)
identify, describe, and apply conventions
of Standard English in his or her
communications (ELL-L&S-2)
listen actively to the ideas of others in
order to acquire new knowledge (ELL-
L&S-3)
Writing
ELL I
The students will
express in writing his or her own
thinking and ideas (ELL-W-1)
identify, describe, and apply conventions
of Standard English in his or her
communications (ELL-W-2)
Reading
ELL I
The students will
demonstrate understanding of print
concepts of the English language (ELL-
R-1)
identify and manipulate the sounds of the
English language and decode words,
using knowledge of phonics,
syllabication, and word parts (ELL-R-2)
acquire English language vocabulary and
use it in relevant contexts (ELL-R-3)
analyze text for expression, enjoyment
and response to other related content
areas (ELL-R-5)
Required Materials The teacher will need a projector and internet access in the
classroom.
The teacher will need a whiteboard.
The teacher will need to have a short story book.
The lesson will need standard classroom materials (paper,
pencil, highlighters, etc.) are required.
At the end there is a matching quiz is required.

Procedures Explanation
Show the students an informational video on the 5
elements of a story
https://www.flocabulary.com/fivethings/
After the video the teacher will review and explain
again to the students to make sure they understand the
concept of all five concepts
Demonstration
The teacher will read a short story to the students.
Following, the teacher should have the students identify
the five key elements in the aforementioned story and
write them on the whiteboard and explain why they are
what they are.
Individual
Have the students take a matching quiz over the 5
elements on their own
Next have the students write their own short stories.
Group
When the student is done with their stories, have them
trade with another student.
The partner student will then highlight the five elements
in the story as they read reading it.
Assessment The students will turn in the stories to the teacher that they
wrote and grade the stories to make sure that they included all
the five elements of a short story.
The students will individually complete a matching quiz to
show they can match each element with its description.
References/Referen
ce Materials
Donald, F., & Richards, J. (1996). Teacher Decision Making in the Adult ESL
Classroom. Teacher Learning in Language Teaching (pp. 197-216).
Cambridge, United Kingdom: The Press Syndicate of the University of
Cambridge.
Kroll, B. (1990). Second language writing: research insights for the classroom.
Cambridge [England: Cambridge University Press.

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