The purpose of this final project is to demonstrate how you would make a grammar-focused lesson for a specific EL population of your choosing (age, grade, educational background, years in the US, L1 proficiency level, English proficiency level) within a specific classroom context (self-contained/sheltered content classroom, pull-out ESOL, ESOL & SpEd, etc). You will design one lesson that focuses exclusively on a grammar point of your choosing in relation to a larger unit that you might do in your own classroom. This lesson can be presented as (1) a single-day lesson focus on a particular grammar point within a larger content unit, or (2) the first day of a multi-day grammar-focused lessons within a larger content unit. The project will be in the style of a thematic unit – Part 1- background, Part 2 – lesson plan with activities, Part 3 – Justification. These three parts (minus the title page and reference page) should be between 12-15 pages in APA-style.
Background: Provide a 1-2 page background on the demographics of the learners, the type of classroom in which this lesson will take place, the larger unit in which this will occur, and whether this is a one-time grammar lesson or Day 1 of a multiple lesson grammar focus within the unit.
Lesson Plan: Note that grammar will be the focus of this lesson, not something that is briefly mentioned or glossed over. Given that, you will have language objectives that focus on that grammar point but also have one content objective (what content ESOL students will use the grammar for in this particular lesson as it relates to the overall unit). Think about how you will introduce the grammar point:
Has it already been taught and this is a review, or is it brand new to them?
What role will you play as the teacher in introducing this information?
What tools will you use to introduce this information?
What types of activities will you use that Focus on Form?
How will you organize the grammar point with the types of activities students do over the course of the lesson, and how will they build up to a culminating activity that connects the grammar point with the overall unit content?
You might like to use any SIOP template you can find online for the lesson plan or some adapted version. If you have access to some other format of lesson plan, thats fine too! If you dont know where to find a lesson plan, just ask!
You must also include the types of interactions that each activity will have (Teacher-Student, individual Student, or Student-Student pair-/group-work), and how long you anticipate each activity will last. Also, provide details on the activities that you plan on using.
Justification: Why did you construct the lesson plan as you did in relation to meeting the needs of the EL population and teaching context you described in Part 1? Include at least four references in your justification paper. These references can be readings from this course, from another course, just from a source you have that you trust, or from comments from me or from classmates that you found helpful. The references dont have to carefully formatted; I just would like to know what or who you are referring to.
FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS: Black text, double-spaced, 12 point font, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins all around (be sure to change the margins in Word), APA-style, title page, in-text citations, and reference page.
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