Sample Lesson Plan – Secondary Level

Prior knowledge: Students already discussed some popular seasonal activities in the previous class. They also bring prior knowledge of their own customs and traditions for holidays celebrated in their families and/ or home countries.
Language Goals: (How is instruction scaffolded/ differentiated for a wide array of ELLs?)
This lesson is scaffolded for lower level ELLs by providing vocabulary list handouts for the seasonal activities and holidays. Multiple visual aids also accompany the lesson. The homework activities will be differentiated so that the Advanced learners will have more challenging activities.
(2) Presentation

Activities

Multilevel activities:
Using a projector, the teacher launches a hypermedia PowerPoint presentation entitled “Seasons.” As a class, she first reviews the ‘Calendar’ slides for each season to recap the discussion on calendar months from the previous day’s lesson. She then guides the students through the ‘Activity’ slides for each season. These slides display clip art of different activities, which reveal the associated vocabulary word(s) when clicked. The teacher employs questioning strategies to assess the students’ prior knowledge before clicking on each image.
The teacher then reviews the ‘Holiday’ slides in the hypermedia presentation and again assesses the students’ prior knowledge by asking them questions about each holiday. She provides additional information as needed. She then directs the students to a WWW hyperlink within the presentation’s ‘Holiday’ slides for a fun website where they can go to research more information about different holidays.
Four Skills:

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  Listening: Students listen as the teacher and other students relay information during the hypermedia navigation. Music clips are also incorporated into the hypermedia.
  
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  Speaking: Students respond to informal questions from the teacher.
  
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  Reading: Students view the hypermedia presentation as the teacher navigates it in front of the class.
  
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  Writing: Students will write about their holiday traditions in the homework assignment.