EDIS 5882

Lesson Plan Template

Unit Title or Big Idea/Concept/Skill: The Odyssey
Lesson Title or focusing skill and/or concept: Revising Grammar
Critical Learning Objectives being taught in this lesson:
SWBAT:
Cognitive (know/understand):
1. Students will know how to properly cite an epic poem in writing
2. Students will understand subject-verb agreement
3. Students will understand how to fix run-on sentences and sentence fragments
4. Students will know how to properly use apostrophes in showing possession
Affective (feel/value) and/or Non-Cognitive:
5. Students will value peer feedback and input
Performance (do):
6. Students will be able to correct their paragraphs for proper citation, subject-verb
agreement, run-on sentences and sentence fragments, and improper use of apostrophes
7. Students will be able to identify common errors in their paragraphs
SOLs:
9.7 The student will self- and peer-edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation,
spelling, sentence structure, and paragraphing.
a) Use and apply rules for the parts of a sentence, including subject/verb, direct/indirect
object, and predicate nominative/predicate adjective, and coordinating conjunctions.
d) Use commas and semicolons to distinguish and divide main and subordinate clauses.
CCSs:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.2

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization,

punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Methods of Assessment:
Group editing: In revising sentences from a group members paragraph, I can assess how
well the student understood the mistake he or she made and how to best fix it
Editing a paragraph: In revising a longer paragraph I can assess how well the students are
able to identify common grammatical errors and fix those errors
Procedures/Instructional Strategies

Beginning Room Arrangement: Students in their usual seating arrangements, in rows, facing
the front of the class
[Changes in this arrangement that become necessary later will be noted in the plan]
1. Bridge/Hook/Opening to lesson:
For about two weeks now the students have been writing a paragraph a day analyzing one of the
characters of The Odyssey. I have reviewed these paragraphs and marked four common mistakes
that I am seeing throughout the majority of my students writing. I tell the class that I have
identified these mistakes and list the general categories on the board:
-Proper citation of the title of the poem
-Subject verb agreement
-Use of run-on sentences or sentence fragments
-Use of apostrophe to show possession
2. Review of the grammar rules
The students have been introduced to these terms before and are constantly reminded to fix for
them in their paragraphs. Therefore as a group we quickly review the rules. I ask the students
How do you cite the title of an epic poem in a piece of literature? How does it differ when you
write it versus when you type it?
Next I give a quick review of subject-verb agreement, and define and give examples of a run on
sentence and a sentence fragment. I also review what a complete sentence consists of.
Finally I review apostrophe use. I give the example of Sarahs book versus Chris book- and
when the apostrophe comes before the s and when it comes after.
3. Correcting Sentences
The students are in reading groups for The Odyssey (these are groups of 3). Before class I chose
a sentence from each students paragraph that had one of the common grammar mistakes (if the
student did not have one I gave them a generic sentence that has one of the common errors that I
created). The students move into their small groups, putting their desks together to be able to
work together yet also not raise their voices. I put the sentences on a scrap sheet of paper and
give the sentence to the student. In their reading groups the students work through the sentence
together, identify which error they made, and correct the error.
4. Paragraph revision
The students stay in their small groups and are given a whole paragraph to correct. The
paragraph has at least one error from each of the four categories. The students work together to
revise the paragraphs and turn them in as their exit slip to leave class.
5. Closure
I remind the students that they are soon going to be publishing two of their Odyssey paragraphs
and that they will be marked off if they have any of these common errors that we reviewed today
and to make sure to really reread the paragraph and look for these errors.