Instructor: Catherine Bobo
Lesson Title “Halloween Verb Lesson”
Grade and Subject: 6th Grade Language Arts
Date 10/27/2014
1. LESSON CONTEXT AND RATIONALE
Culture and Context
 This lesson is being taught to 6th grade language arts students at Crabapple Middle
School. The students are diverse racially, ethnically, by gender, and by learning
level. This lesson will be taught both to on-level and advanced placement students.
Grammar is an indispensable component in both written and spoken forms of
communication. Students must be able to learn the proper grammar conventions to
apply to forming proper linguistic syntax. Verbs, principal parts of verbs, and verb
tenses must be taught in an effective way for these 6th graders to be able to build
upon the grammar knowledge they have, and to provide a foundation for the
grammar they will learn in higher grade levels.
 The proper use of grammar conventions in speaking and writing is required by the
Common Core State Standards for 6th grade students. My approach is to provide an
interactive lesson plan format that is relevant to what students are experiencing in
their own lives. In my examples of verb usage, principal parts, and tenses, I am
using sentences that reflect what students do in their own lives.
 It is important for students to feel that they are reflected in the curriculum and
lessons that they experience. It is also important to use engaging and interactive
modes of instruction.
 The students in the 6th grade age group like interactive experiences. My lesson plan
has a Halloween theme. I will have students do a Halloween themed worksheet on
the principal parts of verbs, and I will have the students come to the board to
complete simple verb tense activities.
Identity and
Intellectual
Development
 This lesson will help shape students identity as scholars by providing them with
further knowledge on the grammatical convention of verbs, the principal parts of
verbs, and verb tenses.
 This lesson will aid students in the comprehension, identification, and application
of verbs, the principal parts of verbs, and verb tenses in their studies.
 This lesson is important because verbs are necessary components of all sentences.
Since sentences are the basic structure of most grammatical written and oral
communication, students should be able to identify and apply verbs. Students need
to be able to identify and apply both the principal parts of verbs, and the simple
verb tenses.
 This lesson fits into the larger class curriculum by instructing on one of the
required grammar conventions required for their grade level. This lesson on verbs
will connect with previous and future various grammar conventions that are
interconnected. This lesson will recap action and linking verbs. This lesson will
introduce the principal parts of verbs and simple verb tenses. This lesson is
important so that students are able to form sentences correctly using verbs.
 I will teach this lesson in an interactive way so that students will be engaged. I
believe that this lesson will provide an effective recap of linking and action verbs,
and that this lesson will provide a solid introduction to the principal parts of verbs
and the simple verb tenses.
 The purpose of this exercise is for students to be able to identify, understand, and
produce the different principal parts of verbs and the simple verb tenses.
 I will provide the students with a copy of important notes from the PowerPoint for
their reference. I will also distribute an activity worksheet for the principal parts of
verbs for the students to complete. I will have the notes and worksheet located at
the center of the grouped tables. This should minimize time that would be used in
passing out papers and allow for more time for instruction. Students will read the
“Bell Ringer” board to read directions for getting their journals and the guided
notes from their table. I will have the main essential question, agenda, activity, and
wrap up written on the main dry erase board. I will utilize a clicker for PowerPoint
Lesson Rationale
Management
Grade and Subject: 6th Grade Language Arts
Instructor: Catherine Bobo
Lesson Title “Halloween Verb Lesson”
Date 10/27/2014
transitions.
2.
STANDARDS & REQUIREMENTS
2. CCGSP or GPS
Standard(s)
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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of
standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Individual Education  There are students in these classes with IEP’s and 504’s.
 This lesson will be taught to both on-level students and advanced level students.
Plan Goal(s) and
Benchmarks
I will provide adequate time for the students to view PowerPoints, and I am
Modification(s)
/Accommodation (s) providing a handout of notes. The class will have opportunities for classroom
Differentiation
participation with answering questions on the PowerPoint.
This lesson provides differentiation with the handout of notes, auditory and visual
presentation, and collaborative classroom participation.
3. RESOURCES
Academic Language
Language Functions
Language
Vocabulary
Materials
Technology
 The key language demand will be for grammar instruction.
 I will teach the students about action verbs, linking verbs, the principal parts of
verbs, and simple verb tenses. The key vocabulary will be verbs, action verbs,
linking verbs, present tense, past tense, future tense, present participle, past
participle, regular, and irregular verbs.
 Identify and apply
 Verbs, action verbs, and linking verbs
 Connect and action
 Verb tenses
 Present, past, and future tense
 Present participle and past participle
 Regular and irregular verbs.
 PowerPoint, print out of notes, principal part of verbs worksheet, and student
journals
 PowerPoint on projector and clicker for transitions
 The students will be able to have a visual aid with the PowerPoint to accompany
their notes.
4. LESSON PROCEDURE
Enduring
Understanding
 Why is grammar instruction necessary for 6th grade students?
 How does grammar better aid students in life-long learning?
 How does the use of proper grammar aid students in their everyday lives?
Essential
Question(s)
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Lesson Objective(s)
Assessment Link
What are the four principal parts of verbs and how do you identify them?
What are the simple verb tenses and how do you identify them?
How do regular and irregular verbs differ?
Students will know what the four principal parts of verbs are. They will be able to
identify and apply the four principal parts of verbs endings. Students will know
what the simple verb tenses are. They will be able to identify and apply the verb
tenses.
 The assessment will require students to provide the conjugation of the four
principal parts of verbs that I provide them with a graphic organizer. The students
will also provide the conjugation for the simple tenses in verbs in the PowerPoint.
Students will also identify correct verb usage in sentences.
Instructor: Catherine Bobo
Grade and Subject: 6th Grade Language Arts
Lesson Title “Halloween Verb Lesson”
Date 10/27/2014
 I will open the lesson by doing a recap of the last lesson on linking verbs and
Introduction to
action verbs.
Lesson
 The introduction should take 3 minutes.
Body of Lesson
 After the introduction, with a recap of action and linking verbs, the lesson will
move onto the principal parts of verbs. I will show the students the break-down of
the principal parts of verbs into present, present participle, past, and past
participle. I will have examples both in tables and in sentences. These examples
include both regular and irregular principle parts of verbs. I will then have the
students fill out a worksheet where they have to provide the different principle
parts of verbs with words I have chosen. After the students complete their
worksheets we will move onto the next phase of the lesson. I will then transition
into the lesson on simple verb tenses. The simple verb tenses of both regular and
irregular verb tenses will be demonstrated with examples in tables and in
sentences. During this phase of the lesson there will be opportunities for the class
to provide the tenses for a regular and an irregular verb on a blank table. I will then
move onto an activity where the class will identify correct verb usage.
 The body should take 20 minutes.
 The lesson will close with a collaborative simple verb tense activity. I will give the
students a verb from a word bank, and they will provide the answers for the
present, past, and future on a candy corn template on the PowerPoint. The word
bank will consist of both regular and irregular verbs.
 I will then take up the students principal parts of verbs worksheet.
 This closure should take no more than 5 minutes.
Closure
5. ASSESSMENT
Evaluation
(Assessment Plan
for IEP Goals and/or
504 Plans)
 I will be take up the students principal parts of verbs worksheet and check them to
make sure they are completed correctly. I will be able to see if the students
understood the lesson by reviewing the accuracy of their answers.
 I will assess their learning by reviewing the student’s sentences using a linking
verb and an action verb for the introductory activity.
 Students will exhibit an understanding of the lesson’s objectives by properly using
and identifying verbs in writing, the principle parts of verbs, and the simple verb
tenses.
 I will provide feedback by checking their worksheets for the correct principal parts
of verbs.
6. REFLECTION
Analyzing Teaching
Effectiveness
 Self-reflection will be performed based on lesson plans strength and weaknesses. I
will use my own assessment of how the lesson plan went, along with the
commentary from my Mentor Teacher and University Supervisor.