English Language Arts, Expository Writing Unit



English Language Arts, Parts of Speech Unit 2, Verbs, Lesson 1: Introduction to VerbsStandards Met: This lesson is part of the English Language Arts, Parts of Speech Unit 2, Verbs, and meets the standards and activates the habits of mind delineated in that unit plan document. Big Ideas: verbs as action words, verbs as descriptors of time in a sentence, verbs as integral to grammatically complete sentences, verbs as the workhorses of the English language, writing grammatically complete and correct sentences, stylish, cogent writing. This lesson aims to assist students in building their fundamental understanding of exactly what a verb is and what its essential role to a grammatically complete sentence is, as well as understanding the various forms and tenses verbs take and perform and describe in declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences. This lesson activates prior knowledge of verbs as action words in sentences, which is generally as much as students can articulate about verbs. Students will be able to demonstrate their fundamental understanding of the verbs of a sentence and the fact that a sentence cannot be complete without a verb describing the action and when it took place.Classroom Aim: What is a verb? What is the verb’s function in a sentence? How many types of verbs are there? How many different tenses do verbs describe? Why do we need to understand how verbs work in sentences?Do Now: 1. Cultural Literacy Selection: Verb; 2. Everyday Edit: “Poe’s ‘The Raven’”Class Work: Guided inquiry using a teacher-made, structured worksheet in a three-part scaffold that calls upon students: 1. To identify verbs in a teacher-authored passage of text; 2. to complete a series of modified cloze exercises that call upon them to use verbs to complete a declarative sentence; 3. To compose six sentences from subject to period with a clearly identified verb.Independent Practice: Compose six sentences demonstrating your understanding of the use of the verbs in sentences.Methods and Materials: This lesson uses formal guided inquiry as its method of delivery—in this case a reading passage in which students will identify all the nouns. However, students will be required, as independent practice (i.e. homework) to compose six sentences “from the ground up” using verbs in a variety of conjugations and configurations to demonstrate their understanding of these words’ correct use. This lesson is presented as a highly structured guided inquiry. Therefore, it is designed to meet the needs of struggling and/or alienated students who deal with impediments to learning, including low levels of reading and writing ability, attention deficits, executive function weakness, or a variety of other behavioral and cognitive impairments and disabilities. Therefore, this lesson may have as many as four different versions of its do-now exercises, and scaffolded worksheets, edited for students’ reading ability. While this lesson addresses a skill necessary to achievement in the English language arts curriculum, its general focus is on enhancing students’ overall literacy and facility with language This lesson’s particular focus is to address difficulties in writing, particularly at the level of the grammatically complete expository sentence, by teaching syntax, grammar, and style synthetically. Please see Parts of Speech Unit 2: Verbs Unit Plan for a fuller exposition of the students this lesson is meant to serve and its methods in meeting their needs.Need for Lesson: ELA POS UP2V LP1*lp; ELA POS UP2V LP1*dn1; ELA POS UP2V LP1*dn2; ELA POS UP2V LP1*ws; ELA POS UP2V LP1*wsKey Points and Connections:Make sure that students understand that a verb is, like the nouns they just spent so much time learning about, a necessary part of a grammatically complete sentence, that it is impossible to have a grammatically complete sentence in English without a verb (and a noun).Asks students what do you notice about verbs and the time and action is taking place?Some Essential Questions:What do you notice about verbs and the time and action is taking place?What is a verb?What is the relationship between verbs and the other parts of speech?What is an action verb?What are the tenses of verbs?What is subject-verb agreement?Next Lesson: Parts of Speech Unit 2, Lesson 2: The Intransitive and the Transitive Verb ................
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