PSD Lesson Plan Template (EATS) Teachers:
2nd Grade: Branch, Forrester, Harrell, Ward
Course/Level:
Writing
Story: George Washington Carver (Biography)
Week Of:
May 4, 2015
Focused Standard/
Element (s)
Focus:
Biography
Persuasive
Writing:
Mother’s Day
Card
WIDA Standard
Essential Questions
Monday 5-4-2015
Tuesday 5-5--2015
Wednesday 5-6-2015
ELACC2L1: Demonstrates
command of the conventions of
standard English grammar and
usage when writing or speaking.
e) uses adjectives
f) produces, expands, and
rearranges complete simple and
compound sentences.
g) creates documents with legible
handwriting.
ELACC2L1: Demonstrates command
of the conventions of standard English
grammar and usage when writing or
speaking.
e) uses adjectives
f) produces, expands, and rearranges
complete simple and compound
sentences.
g) creates documents with legible
handwriting.
ELACC2L1: Demonstrates command of the
conventions of standard English grammar and
usage when writing or speaking.
e) uses adjectives
f) produces, expands, and rearranges
complete simple and compound sentences.
g) creates documents with legible
handwriting.
ELACC2SL3: Ask and answer
questions about what a speaker says
in order to clarify comprehension,
gather additional information, or
deepen understanding of a topic or
issue.
ELACC2SL6: Produce complete
sentences when appropriate to task
and situation in order to provide
requested detail or clarification.
ELACC2W3: Writes a narrative in
which they recount a well-elaborated
event or short sequence of events,
include details to describe actions,
thoughts, and feelings, use temporal
words to signal event order, and
provide a sense of closure.
Standard 2 ELL communicate
information, ideas, and concepts
necessary for academic success in
the area of language arts.
What is a Biography?
What are the important elements of
a Biography?
How does chronological order help
ELACC2SL3: Ask and answer
questions about what a speaker says
in order to clarify comprehension,
gather additional information, or
deepen understanding of a topic or
issue.
ELACC2W3: Writes a narrative in
which they recount a well-elaborated
event or short sequence of events,
include details to describe actions,
thoughts, and feelings, use temporal
words to signal event order, and
provide a sense of closure.
Standard 2 ELL communicate
information, ideas, and concepts
necessary for academic success in
the area of language arts.
What is a Biography?
What are the important elements of
a Biography?
How does chronological order help
ELACC2SL3: Ask and answer questions
about what a speaker says in order to clarify
comprehension, gather additional information,
or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
ELACC2W3: Writes a narrative in which they
recount a well-elaborated event or short
sequence of events, include details to
describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use
temporal words to signal event order, and
provide a sense of closure.
Standard 2 ELL communicate information,
ideas, and concepts necessary for academic
success in the area of language arts.
What is a Biography?
What are the important elements of a
Biography?
How does chronological order help you
you understand a Biography?
What is a Time Line and how do you
make one?
you understand a Biography?
What is a Time Line and how do you
make one?
understand a Biography?
What is a Time Line and how do you make
one?
Activating Strategy
Teacher Meet: whole group
Brainstorm What a Biography is.
Make Anchor Chart for
Biography
Instructional
Technology and
Resources
Brainpop Jr.: What is a
Biography?
https://jr.brainpop.com/re
adingandwriting/writing/biog
raphy/
Use Brainpop Jr. to discuss
George Washington Carver:
https://jr.brainpop.com/socialst
udies/biographies/georgewashing
toncarver/
Review Major points about a
Biography.
Teaching
Opening (10-15 min)
Together in Whole Group read and
plot a time line about George
Washington Carver.
Smart Exchange Biography Lesson:
below:
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorg
anizer/pdf/stepchart_eng.pdf
Smart exchange lesson
Work-Time Activities
(45-55 min)
Differentiation
Offered
Summarizing
Closure Activity (2030 min)
Writing: What do you
think George Washington
Carver’s greatest
achievements were in his
life?
Peer tutor
(whole group lessons- lesson
introduced today)
Ticket out the door for writing and
adjectives lessons.
Read through George Washington
Carver. Together make a Biography
Flip Book on him filling in major
details.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.c
om/FreeDownload/BiographyReport-Flip-Book
Peer Tutor
Interview a Friend from the Classroom to
make a Biography about them.
Ask questions that you think are important
to learn about that person.
Write down the answers to the questions in
sentence form.
Exit slipComplete the activity
Ticket out the door activities for writing a
Biography.
The Important Thing:
The important things I learned
about a Biography
are_______________________.
Reread sentences about Friend.
small group/Word Wall
Additional Notes
Focused
Standard/Element (s)
Thursday 5-7-2015
Friday 5-8-2015
ELACC2L1: Demonstrates
command of the conventions of
standard English grammar and
ELACC2L1: Demonstrates
command of the conventions of
standard English grammar and
Focus:
WIDA Standard
usage when writing or speaking.
usage when writing or speaking.
e) uses adjectives
f) produces, expands, and
rearranges complete simple
and compound sentences.
g) creates documents with
legible handwriting.
e) uses adjectives
f) produces, expands, and
rearranges complete simple
and compound sentences.
g) creates documents with
legible handwriting.
ELACC2SL3: Ask and answer
questions about what a speaker says
in order to clarify comprehension,
gather additional information, or
deepen understanding of a topic or
issue.
ELACC2SL3: Ask and answer
questions about what a speaker says
in order to clarify comprehension,
gather additional information, or
deepen understanding of a topic or
issue.
ELACC2W3: Writes a narrative in
which they recount a wellelaborated event or short sequence
of events, include details to
describe actions, thoughts, and
feelings, use temporal words to
signal event order, and provide a
sense of closure.
ELACC2W3: Writes a narrative in
which they recount a wellelaborated event or short
sequence of events, include details
to describe actions, thoughts, and
feelings, use temporal words to
signal event order, and provide
a sense of closure.
ELACC2W1:
Write opinion pieces in which they
introduce the topic or book they
are writing about, state an opinion,
supply reasons that support the
opinion, use linking words (e.g.,
because, and, also) to connect
opinion and reasons, and provide
a concluding statement or section.
ELACC2W1:
Write opinion pieces in which
they introduce the topic or book
they are writing about, state an
opinion, supply reasons that
support the opinion, use linking
words (e.g., because, and, also)
to connect opinion and reasons,
and provide a concluding
statement or section.
Standard 2 ELL communicate
information, ideas, and concepts
necessary for academic success in
the area of language arts.
Standard 2 ELL communicate
information, ideas, and concepts
necessary for academic success in
the area of language arts.
* One of the keys to writing is
using appropriate transitional
words and phrases.
For students who struggle with
writing a cohesive essay or paper,
it is essential that they use words
that not only create a natural flow
or progression, but link each point
together.
Essential Question
What is a Biography?
What are the important elements of
a Biography?
How does chronological order help
you understand a Biography?
What is a Time Line and how do you
make one?
What is the difference in telling and
persuading?
What is the difference in telling
and persuading?
What is the difference in a Fact
and an Opinion?
What words can clue an Opinion?
What words clue Facts?
Activating Strategy
What makes my Mom the best mom
in all the world? List all the things
our moms do for us. Use reasons to
support our opinion.
Watch the difference in fact and
opinion at Brainpop:
https://www.brainpop.com/english/w
riting/factandopinion/
Think-Pair-Share:
Work with partner to Change
sentence strip facts into opinions.
Instructional
Technology and
Resources
Teaching
Opening (10-15 min)
Work-Time Activities
(45-55 min)
Differentiation
Offered
Create a Time Line about your
Mother to help tell her
Biography.
Create a Mother’s Day card for
your mother or grandmother.
Write/give reasons why she is
the best in the world!
Small Group
Writing Buddy
Word Wall
Brainpop Jr.
https://www.brainpop.com/english/
writing/factandopinion/qanda.weml
Grammar:
Review with video clips/ smart
exchange lesson on Fact/Opinion
Complete The Mother’s Day Card
and Mother’s Day Writing. Convince
your mother that she is the best in
all the world! Use persuasive words
and adjectives.
Small Group
Writing Buddy
Word Wall
Classworks Practice –
Summarizing
Closure
Activity (20-30 min)
Classworks Practice –
Adjectives
Study Island - Sentences
Adjectives
Study Island - Sentences
Show & Share/ Read & Write
Share your Mother’s Day Writing
with a neighbor
Writing Resources:
http://firstgradeblueskies.blogspot.com/2014/01/writing-biographies-freebie.html
(Biography of a Friend)
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/FreeDownload/Writing-Rubric-for-Primary-Grades
Watch Video on Sequencing Ideas in Your Writing:
https://jr.brainpop.com/readingandwriting/comprehension/sequence/