Lesson Plan One Course: English Composition Subject: Writing Boot Camp Grade Level: Dates: Instructor: Mr.

James Dilworth Standards: Nevada State English Standards 1.7.5 Read fluently aloud and/or silently with a focus on prosody accuracy automaticity 5.7.1 Use prewriting strategies to plan written work. Choose and narrow a topic to organize ideas. Explore a topic to plan written work. 6.7.1 Write essays and compositions which include a topic sentence supporting details a concluding statement a beginning, middle, and end a thesis statement transitions Write essays and compositions using patterns of organization including compare and contrast cause and effect 6.7.2 Write multiple-paragraph papers about experiences and/or events appropriate to audience and purpose that include logical sequence characters setting plot dialogue figurative language sensory details 8.7.3 Use public speaking techniques to deliver presentations with appropriate prosody volume eye contact enunciation posture expressions audience purpose Pre-requisites: The successful completion of the Sentence Review.

Unit Objectives: Students will be able to write a vivid and interesting paragraph using the The Table Top Paragraph method. Materials: Handouts and worksheets (provided) Colored Pencils, Crayons, Pens, Computers, Typewriters (student must supply) Activities (Procedures): JournalAR Reading for 10 minutes ObjectiveThrough class recitation, students will learn and memorize the mandatory poem and the extra credit poem, How Doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis Carroll and I'm Nobody by Emily Dickinson. Students will be introduced to the Table Top Paragraph and how to make their own through the class creating one. Students will create their own paragraph, following the Table Top Paragraph template. AssignmentStudents will read from a book for AR for the first ten minutes of class, to Students will recite in class the mandatory poem and the extra credit poem, How Doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis Carroll and I'm Nobody by Emily Dickinson. Introduction to the Table Top Paragraph. The class creates a paragraph as an example: using a topic chosen from the class, students will write, as a class, an example paragraph. Then, students will take Table Top Paragraph organizer and write a paragraph of their own, on a topic that interests them, that is school appropriate, and can be used to write a five paragraph essay. Personal Table Top Paragraph Two assigned, due tomorrow. HomeworkVivid/Table Top Paragraph Two, due tomorrow. Read a book for at least 20-30 minutes each night!