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3.1.2. Homework Task Twelve

Please refer to the Diagnostic Assessment Tool you chose for Homework Task Eleven. In a page, please explain how you will use the information you learn to make informed decisions about your lesson plan DURING the lesson. For instance, are there key areas you are interested in that might cause some confusion for your students?

The information that I get from the diagnostic assessment tool will help me in making the decisions what to change in my lesson plan. This way the tool will tell me whether I am including the material or knowledge that is necessary for my students. Moreover it will help me in developing the lesson plan taking into consideration what is necessary to teach my group of students. According to information that I got from the diagnostic assessment tool I will know what to do first during the lesson and further plan accordingly.

The key areas that might cause confusion for my students will be knowledge of terms and using them while doing analysis of the short story. E.g., the text type which I need to work on is the short story according to the course syllabus. The results of the assessment tool show that there is some gap in understanding and using the terminology in doing the task. In our case it is the analysis of the short story. For this reason the first task will be type of literary texts that students are supposed to be familiar with. The task for them will be discussing the questions that focus on the form of the short story and questions about the topic of the story that they are going to read and discuss during the class. The next task will be while reading tasks that aims at developing the reading strategies by working with the text. Students will read the text individually, complete the tasks that focus on the ideas and meaning of the story. In the next task students will be working with language of the short story by doing the tasks that ask students to the analysis from the language point of view in which there will be questions like “What did you notice about the language of the author?”, “What are the specific words that the author uses in describing the character or place?”. After students explore the language of the writer, they will complete the vocabulary tasks in which they will be exploring the meaning of those vocabulary that helped the writer to express the idea of the story. The further tasks will focus on the analysis of the story in which students pay attention to the elements of the short story that are characters, place, setting and time, how events are organized in the text. While doing these task students will have an opportunity to analyse the story by paying particular attention to the all elements as they will be working on groups. Later on groups will share answers with the whole group. For me as a teacher it will be important that all students are engaged in the tasks and have opportunities to share what they have understood from this lesson. After the lesson I will see whether the results of the diagnostic assessment tool have been taken into consideration or not and moreover whether I have managed to take into consideration to fill the gap, find out the key areas that have caused some confusion.