Alex Funt, Hayley Hill, and Aaron Johnson

Alex Funt 7th and 8th Grade Language Arts Holly Springs Summer School Lesson Plan for Week 2, Tuesday, Period 4

Objective: TSW distinguish between the degrees of adjectives. (Eng-7.4.a.6)

Materials: whiteboard, markers, props for skit, transparency, overhead, copies of p. 28 from the workbook Elements of Language

Procedures: 1. TSW complete a bell ringer in which they must identify adjectives in sentences and draw arrows to the nouns or pronouns that they modify. 2. TTW review the bell ringer by having students come to the whiteboard to underline adjectives and draw arrows to the nouns or pronouns that they modify. 3. TTW set the lesson by asking students to name a good basketball player, then a better one, and finally the best. Relate the exercise to positive, comparative, and superlative degree adjectives. 4. TTW review notes on the whiteboard that define and give examples of the different degrees of adjectives 5. TTW present sentences on a transparency for guided practice in which the task is to, given one adjective degree, fill-in the others. TTW go over the first two problems and then ask students to complete the task in subsequent problems. TSW copy the charts of adjectives into their notes. 6. TSW complete a worksheet that asks them to identify adjective degrees and change between degrees. TTW move around the room to monitor student work and to answer questions. 7. TTW review problems on the worksheet with which students are having difficulty. 8. TTW ask for three volunteers to step outside of the room. TTW give each volunteer a degree of the same adjective and a scenario. The volunteers will act out a skit, and the student audience members will write down the names of the actors and which degree of adjective they think they represent. 9. TTW provide closure by revealing the actors’ roles in the skits and by reviewing the key points of adjective degrees.

Assessment:

TSW distinguish between the degrees of adjectives. (Eng-7.4.a.6)

Informal: The teacher will assess student work on the worksheet (M) that asks them to fill-in the missing degrees of adjectives (C). Formal: The students will have to identify degrees of adjectives (C) in both multiple choice and free response format on Friday’s test (M), with grades recorded (D).