Monday, February 15, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Writing prompt
Assignment #2-1 Writing prompt by Sooyeun Kim
1.Reading Journal entry
What do you think someone your age can do to help reduce the amount of pollution in our environment?
2.Free-writing
If you could only take 3 people with you on a trip around the world, who would you take and why?
3.Expository Writing
How would you feel if a new child moved into your neighborhood?
4.Narrative Writing
When someone picks on someone else, how do you feel? What do you do?
5.Descriptive Writing
How do you feel when you want something very badly and you cannot have it? Why is this so important to have?
6.Creative Writing
What TV or movie star would you like to invite to your birthday party?
Assignment #2-2 Writing workshop by Sooyeun Kim
* Title
To make an extended story after reading THE HUNGRY GIANT, and THE HUNGRY GIANTS SOUP by Joy Cowley
* Instructor : Sooyeun Kim
* Number of Students : 8 students
* Level: Grade 1~2
* Length : 50 mins.
* Materials Required: Folders, paper, pencils....
* Learning objective
To improve writing: To help students comprehend the story and make another story
* Outline
1. Mini-Lesson (5-10 min.)
2. Status of the Class (2-3 min.)
3. Writing (20-40 min.) & Conferencing
4. Sharing (10 min.)
* TESOL Standard
Standard 1. English language learners communicate for social, intercultural and instructional purposes within the school setting
* Task Chain 1
1. Instruct let students read THE HUNGRY GIANT, and THE HUNGRY GIANTS SOUP by Joy Cowley (This takes about 2 weeks. They need a lot of experience with the books.) Then Instructor sets them up with the idea about extending the story to part 3.
2. 1. Instructor has all of them write their stories.
* Task Chain 2
1. Instructor picks about 1/3 of the class to publish. Instructor types them up and assign illustrators to help illustrate.
2. The finished product is the word typed on the bottom of a regular ditto page they color right on the ditto paper.
3. Instructor then has 1/3 Publishing, 1/3 Illustrating, and 1/3 with work in progress. That means Instructor will be conferencing with only a few students.
4. This helps him/her to get comfortable with the entire process.
5. Instructor makes sure students who are illustrators must publish a book before they can help illustrate another book this makes sure those artistic students get to publish also.
* Final Assessment:
Use the assessment sheet and students check their awareness of sequence.
