Grade Level
High School
Content Area
English / Writing / Grammar
Title of Lesson
Parts of Speech: Using Grammaropolis Complete
Learning Goal
This lesson will reinforce, and refresh the students in the parts of speech.
Technology Standards
3C- Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on
the appropriateness to the specific task.
3D- Process data and report results.
5A- Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information
and technology.
5B –Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports
collaboration, learning, and productivity.
6B – Select and use applications effectively and productively.
Mobile Apps Integrated
Grammaropolis Complete
Resources/Materials
There is a grammar game that Dr. Schmidt has that would build on this
app. I am not sure where it is located, but I would love to track down the
site, or material that she uses and implement it.
Lesson Outline
This lesson is based in the fact that even in high school students still
struggle to understand the parts of speech, and also how to incorporate
correct punctuation in their writing. I would spend the first 10 minutes
giving a very simple comprehensive quiz to determine where my students
where in the areas of punctuation and identifying parts of speech. After I
found out what I needed to focus on I would spend about 20-30 minutes
reviewing the areas that needed to be address based on both the quiz and
by talking asking the students themselves. After they were given the
initial lesson we would spend some time, 20 minutes, playing on the
grammaropolis app to reinforce and test the parts of speech. If this was a
90 minute lesson the last 20 or so minutes would be spent playing a game
that would pull it all together, I played this game in my wr230 class, but I
would need to find a way to gain access to it. I would break the class into
2 groups. The basis of the game is that on the screen, or without
computer access on the whiteboard, the structure of the sentence would
be as such (determiner + adjective + noun + verb + punctuation) It gets
more complicated than this, but when a student thinks they have it they
can ding a bell and when both sides have someone we check to see who
is correct, if they both are correct the point goes to the team whose person
rang the bell first. This is more involved as it doesn’t let the students use
deduction to figure out what goes there, like some other fill in the blank
kind of tests. It makes the students really have a base knowledge of the
language of the parts of speech, and correct punctuation when called for
as that makes the sentence not correct and loses them that point.