Lesson Plan Title: “Grammar Gurus”
Concept / Topic to Teach: Discourse grammar analysis
Standards Addressed: 22 PA Code, Chapter 4, Grade 11,
1.4.A, 1.5.A-G, 1.6.C, E & F, 1.7.A-C, 1.8.A-C.
General Goal(s): Students will:
- be able to work effectively in group settings
- brainstorm, formulate, research, and develop a
written document with complimenting media piece
- understand and interpret English grammar
- understand discourse analysis of English grammar
Specific Objectives:
- complete a group research project
- teach a grammar lesson using created data
- become aware of traditional vs. everyday grammar
Required Materials:
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computers (lab time)
research (library time)
folders (team material organization)
grammar lessons (text & worksheets)
Anticipatory Set (Lead-In):
Unit will be a 2 weeks long. Traditional grammar lessons
will be taught for review on a daily basis for 3 days to
build the foundation for the project.
Step-By-Step Procedures:
Day 1 - Mon: Introduce grammar, begin grammar
lessons and activities: nouns, verbs, adjectives
Day 2 – Tues: Continue grammar lessons and
activities: adverbs, pronouns, determiners, prepositions,
conjunctions
Day 3 – Wed: Continue grammar lessons: sentence
structure; review all grammar lessons and activities
Day 4 – Thurs: “Grammar Guru” project
introduction. (Use data1). Teach and explain discourse
analysis. Distribute project outline, project rubric, team
lists.
Day 5 – Fri: Review DAY 4 lesson, review
expectations (15 min); team brainstorming, job
distribution, and team proposal due
Day 6 – Mon: Review proposals; Q&A, team work,
individual paper proposal due
Day 7 – Tues: team work, library research/computer
lab, history & cross-country proposal due
Day 8 – Wed: team work, library research/computer
lab, group research summary due
Day 9 – Thurs: team summary/data due, English
history & cross-country summary due, team work.
Day 10 – Fri: “teach sheets” due, presentation
groups 1 and 2 (bonus).
**Presentations for last 2 groups will continue on
next two consecutive days along with normal lessons.
Final paper with portfolio will be due the day after the
last presentation.
Grammar Guru Project – Rubric
DATE: ______________
Name: __________________________ Overall Grade ____/250
Team: ____ Presentation Date________
% ________
*Late Assignments will be deducted 5 pts. per day until received*
GROUP:
INDIVIDUAL:
Proposals: (3) @ 05  _ / 15
Portfolio: (1) @ 30 
Project
Individual
History
Papers: (2) @ 20 
Teach Sheet
History
Presentation:
____/05
____/05
____/05
/ 40
____/20
____/20
/100
Time (25 min) ____/05
Content
____/50
Participation ____/15
Creativity
____/10
Organization ____/10
Quiz
____/10
Complete
On time
Organized
____/10
____/10
____/10
Paper: (1) @ 50 
Content
Organization
Style
Mechanics
/ 50
____/10
____/10
____/10
____/20
Speech: (1) @ 15 
Clear
Confidence
Gestures
Organized
Knowledge
/ 30
/ 15
____/03
____/03
____/03
____/03
____/03
COMMENTS:__________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
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Are you a
GRAMMAR
GURU??
Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate grammar guru?
In the next two weeks, we will be learning grammar in a nontraditional way! The class will be broken into teams.
In your groups, you will work together to create a “databased grammar lesson” through your own creative data. Over the
past few days, we have learned to study grammar by studying
examples found in everyday life and in other languages.
Groups will create 3 media based “grammar mishaps.” A
product advertisement, an informative flyer, and a children’s
story, these will be the basis of your creations. Each data piece
should have an example of a grammatical question or error.
i.e., your group creates a flyer for a doctor’s office that’s
advertising a procedure for a pain-free operation instead of
painless operation.
Following your data pieces, your group will create a “teachsheet” that will guide your teaching to the class..
i.e. pain-free vs. painless? What’s the difference? Why
would the office have used –free rather than –less?
Also, during your research, each group will be assigned a
group paper about the history of a specific part of speech and its
uses in languages around the world. Your group should also
construct a quiz based on your presentation
Finally, at the end of the project, each student will write a 23 page paper that discusses the overall project and explanation of
a piece of data that will be assigned by the teacher as well as a
portfolio that houses all papers, assignments, and projects based
from this larger project.
Steps to completion
1. Assign jobs in group (lead researcher, graphic artist, word
processor, etc)
2. Brainstorm ideas…come up with suggestions and ideas for
the pieces of data…NO LIMITS
3. Submit proposals for the pieces of data, history paper,
and individual papers.
4. Begin researching. Work as a team to complete the
history paper and lesson (final presentation)
5. Create and organize data, papers, and individual
presentation topics
6. Submit all papers, presentation, and final portfolio.
"Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school."- Emerson