Group 4 – Pinocchio
Middle School Classroom; 4 native Chinese speakers, 2 exceptional learners, 26 students total.
4 computers plus teacher laptop and projector
Lesson Unit: Folklore and New Media
Lesson Plan: Introduction to Folklore
Standards Addressed: Summarization, Vocabulary, and Differentiation of Texts
Learning Objectives:
Long-term: read Pinocchio; identify Folktale’s influence in modern text, its structure, theme, plot, etc.
Short-term: Identify commonalities in global folktales; be able to list constructs of genre, plot and character type, function, etc.
Language objectives: identify and use appropriately: Genre, plot, theme, moral, folktale, fable, lesson, trickster, villain
Plan:
1.
Introduce Pinocchio Book trailer to class. a.
Ask class, “What do you know about fairy tales? What did you notice in the book trailer? Do the things you know and the things you saw match? Differ? How?”
(Formative Assessment)
2.
Class would be assigned into 4 groups of 6-7 students each, (homogenous in order to clarify rules and vocabulary. 5 native speakers would be in one group with the help of a gifted student). They would be given a web quest of relevant vocabulary, and they would be allowed to choose a fairy tale to apply the vocabulary words too, perhaps also each assigned an area of the world to research a folktale from. They would be assigned roles within each group, in order to highlight the strengths of each group member (writing vs. artistic vs. verbal, etc.). They can present their found material to the class in whatever form they wanted, as long as it is able to be finished in the time given to them.
3.
Also, they would write down new things they learned as they went on sticky-notes to put up on posters along the walls for future references/vocabulary reinforcement. (Formative
Assessment)
4.
They would then be assigned a chapter in the book for homework and allowed to start reading in class. They would be expected to summarize the events in their chapter for a re-construction of the story as a class the next day (Formative Assessment)
Summative Assessment: A project at the end of the lesson unit where, in groups, they would
“remix” a story of their choosing with New Media, applying it to their daily life and modern texts/technologies. To be presented to the class on an assigned day.