Wilmington University
Pathwise Lesson Plan Format
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Teacher/Student
Teacher
Grade:
Subject:
Date:
Julie Appleton, Charlitha Jackson, Jennifer Dailey, Kristie
Robinson
6th
English/Language Arts
March 30, 2009
1. Briefly describe the students in this class.
This class of 6th grade students has 7 boys and 11 girls.
2. What are your goals for the lesson? What do you want the students to learn?
Students will be able to identify and correct sentence fragments.
3. Why are these goals suitable for this group of students?
By 6th grade students should be able to recognize what constitutes a complete sentence in their own
writing.
4. How do these goals support the district’s curriculum, state frameworks, and/or content
standards?
Standard One for English/Language Arts, 1.6 – Develop vocabulary and the ability to use words,
phrases, idioms, and various grammatical structures as a means of improving communication. For
Grade 6, “use complex sentence structure”
5. How do these goals relate to broader curriculum goals in the discipline as a whole or in other
disciplines?
Students will be able to recognize what constitutes a fragment sentence, and when it is appropriate to
use them in their own writing.
6. How do you plan to engage students in the content? What will you do? What will the
students do? (include time estimates).
Describe the steps or components of a lesson that are a part of this lesson. Possible steps
or components are listed below:
 Mindset or “Warm-Up” Activity
o Three to five minute brainstorm where students offer popular catch phrases
they have seen on television, in advertisements, or in the media in general.
 State objective or purpose of the lesson
o Students will be able to recognize and correct sentence fragments into
complete sentences
o Students will be able to recognize what constitutes a fragment sentence, and
when it is appropriate to use them in their own writing.
 Provide Instructional Input
o Building on the warm up activity, the teacher will demonstrate how common
fragment sentences are in our culture. While fragments serve a purpose, they
are not to be used in formalized writing and students will see when fragments
are appropriate in news ads and commercials, etc. and inappropriate for
essays, formal letters, etc.
o Hard copy handouts, computer lab, demonstration, discussion
 Model (in computer lab)
o Teacher selected a link from the handout to demonstrate a popular ad that
uses a fragment sentence. Example is displayed on projector screen in front
of room.
o Teacher edits the fragment sentence in the example ad into a complete
sentence.
o Teacher copies and pastes the example ad link into the class wikispace blog
o Teacher demonstrates a 2-3 sentence summary on how the edited fragment
sentence he/she found can be used formally.
Check for understanding
o Before students go to comp. lab, teacher surveys the class to check that class
has followed along with the example. If not, teacher writes fragment sentence
examples on the board and students can volunteer to correct the fragments
into formal, grammatically correct sentences.
 Guided Practice
o Students are provided handouts with 20 links to ads located at online
magazines that use sentence fragments.
o Students pick 5 ads and turn one fragment from each ad into complete
sentences
o Copy and paste each link into the Activities tab of the class Wikispace blog
o For each ad put the fragment into a complete sentence and write a 2-3
sentence summary on how the edited fragment they found could be used
formally
o A homework assignment will follow this lesson, but teacher can get a gauge
on how the class is doing from the Activities students will complete
individually or in groups to practice use of knowledge or skills learned in the
lesson
 Closure Activity
o Students can write their own “fragment sentence ads” for 4 or 5 different
products so they can see how fragments are used.
7. What difficulties do students typically experience in this area, and how do you
plan to anticipate these difficulties?
Students might have a difficult time copy and pasting the sample ads into the class Wikispace
page. Teacher should be available for help.
8. What instructional materials or other resources, if any, will you use?
List all equipment and materials needed. Include:
 Computer equipment
 Sample products (Tide box, toothpaste, shoes, etc.)
 Handouts
 Wikispace Blog
9. How did you plan to assess student achievement of the goals? What procedures
will you use? (Attached any tests or performance tasks, with accompanying scoring
guides or rubrics.)
Assessment will be a test given the following class to gauge students’ mastery of sentence fragments.
10. How do you plan to use the results of the assessment?
If 80% of the class demonstrates they have mastered the material by scoring a B- or better, class will
move on to the next lesson, and teacher will provide supplementary materials for the students with a
C+ or lower.