FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3RD, 2010-SPATIAL ORDER
NAME OF COURSE / CLASS: 7th Grade Language Arts
UNIT TITLE: Essential Writing Skills
LESSON TITLE: Spatial Order, Chapter 15 Lesson 2
ANTICIPATED INSTRUCTIONAL TIME: In a 45-minute period the lesson will take
approximately 20 minutes of the period.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING: Spatial Order is important to understand. It is used
to show how people and objects appear. When you read a paragraph that uses
spatial order, you might have the feeling of following a camera as it pans across a
scene.
RATIONALE: Spatial order is important to learn considering that it is a basic when
writing paragraphs. It motivates students to be creative and to learn through
creative thinking. Students can use spatical order any time they want readers to
picture a place as it really looks or as you imagine it. You can describe a space from
top to bottom, left to right, front to back, faraway to close-up, or outside to inside.
GOALS OF THE LESSON:
1. Students will be able to understand the meaning of spatial order and why it
is important to know how to use it.
2. Students will be able to identify the steps to spatial order and be able to
apply these steps.
3. Students will be able to create their own paragraph using special order with
the provided photograph.
[Content Area Objectives, e.g.] MATHEMATICAL OBJECTIVES OF THE LESSON:
1. Students will be able to think creatively and think outside of the box when
using spatial order.
2. Students will be able to write a productive and understandable paragraph
using spatial order.
MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONAL TOOLS: Grammar Text Book, poster, colored
pencils, crayons or markers.
SD K-12 CONTENT STANDARDS:
1. 7.W.1.2 Students can revise word choice in writing.
2. 7.W.1.4 Students can summarize and paraphrase information from
references to compose text.
3. 7.W.2.2 Students can identify and incorporate adjectives in the writing
process.
SESSION-RELATED QUESTIONS:
1. What type of information should be included in the support sentences?
2. When will we use this type of grammar in real life?
IMBEDDED / FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT OPPORTUNITIES: Look to see if
students are understanding the meaning of spatial understanding. It will be easier to
notice if they are understanding by walking around and seeing if they are making a
list of descriptions or if they are asking questions with their neighbors.
INSTRUCTOR MATERIALS: Dry erase marker, example of poster board of a layout
of my room
TEACHING NOTES / LESSON SCRIPT / PROCEDURES:
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1st hand out posters and explain to the students to draw out their locker.
Where the books are, where other materials are, what other things are in
there. Explain how to draw these.
After students draw their locker, we will have a discussion about why things
are placed in the particular order. “John’s science textbook is the first on the
right because science is his first period, and his second book is math because
math is 2nd period.
Go over the importance and how it relates to special order and how it is
important to keep things in order.
Writers use spatial order to show how people and objects appear. When you
read a paragraph that sues spatial order, you might have the feeling that you
are following a camera as it pans across a scene.
Why is this important? When reading your favorite books the author explains
the scene very well, like you’re almost “there”.
What are some of your favorite books that uses special order?
Let’s look at an example.
o Miss Pride’s shop window was full of nasty, dingy, old cardboard
cartons with nothing inside them, and several empty display stands
which had fallen down and never been propped up again. Inside the
shop were a few small, tied looking tins and jars, which ad a worn and
scratched appearance as if mice had tried them and given them up.
o What do we see here? The writer begins with the outside window of
the store. Then the writer describes the inside of the store.
o There was a topper sentence, supports and a clincher sentence.
When using special order we need to look at or picture in your mind the
place you want to show and the people and objects within it.
Decide how much of the space you will describe.
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Present the description from top to bottom, left to right, front to back,
faraway to close up, or outside to inside.
As you write, move from object to subject t and use transition words to
describe the relationship of one object to another.
Direction or location words help.
o As I stepped into Jewel Cave, I noticed that the walls sparkled as they
were wallpapered with diamonds. When I walked up close to the wall,
I Realized that is was covered with a thick layer of crystals. At the base
of the wall, I saw a massive stalagmite jutting up toward the ceiling. A
huge stalactite directly above it dripped steadily down onto the giant
stalagmite.
o Try not to use sentences such as “There was a book”. Was it on a desk,
inside a backpack, on someone’s hear? Be sure the objects in your
sentences don’t just float in space.
ASSESSMENT / HOMEWORK: Using spatial order, describe what is happening in
this picture so that your readers would be able to imagine the picture without
seeing it. You may want to give the dog a name and tell a brief story using the
objects you see. Use direction and location words to help define where things are in
relation to each other. (Picture is in the