ELL Lesson Plan

Content Area: 
English/Language Arts

Title: 
Esperanza Rising: How the Dust Bowl and Great Depression affected migrant worker's lives, and practice with singular and plural verbs and nouns.

Grade Level/Target Group:
Grade 6/Integrated ELD English Class

Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7
Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.8
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

Preplanning









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LESSON OPENING

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Big Idea(s): ANALYZE how migrant workers were affected  by the Dust Bowl, as well as the difference between the impact on domestic or immigrant workers.

Essential Questions: What happens to immigrants and migrants when work is difficult and does not pay well?

Objective: Analyze selected textual excerpts from the book, Esperanza Rising, as well as images from the Dust Bowl era to gather understanding about experiences of characters in the book, as well as practice correct singular and plural use of nouns and verbs.

Summative Assessment:  Google Form: Respond to reading of textual excerpts from Esperanza Rising, using believe, believes, and belief correctly.

Lesson Opening (The Hook): 
​​Students:
  1. Watch the PBS Videos on Dorothea Lange's photos of workers affected by the Dust Bowl to gain an understanding of the lives of migrant workers​​​

LESSON Body
  1. Explanation: 
    Students...
    1. Post their First Name, Last Initial and Description of the migrant experience on the Dust Bowl Experience Padlet after watching the PBS Video about Dorothea Lange's photographs.
    2. Students learn about Subject-Verb Agreement using the linked ESL YouTube video
  2. Check for Understanding: 
    To prepare for responding to the Google Form about , students...
    1. ​Practice verb singular and plural using believe and noun belief using Believe/Belief Quizlet Learning Set. Sample flip cards are embedded below.
    2. Practice Irregular Verbs with this list 
  3. Extended Practice: Show What You Know Bingo HyperDoc (original created by Lisa Highfill)
    To practice use of plural verbs, students can pick one of the options on the Show What You Know Bingo and display the verb in both singular and plural with images that match the words they select. They can use the verb in the Check for Understanding, or use other regular or irregular verbs.

1.Explanation

2. Check for understanding

3. Extended Practice

Closing
Lesson Closing: Google Form Evaluation of analysis of two textual excerpts from Esperanza Rising, supported with sentence frames using believe, believes, and belief. 
  • Depending on English Language Learner competency, we may read, annotate, discuss, and write about the selected readings prior to having students respond with this Google Form.

Materials
Materials needed for this lesson:
  • Chromebooks with Google Apps for Education (GAFE) so that each student can access these tools
  • WIFI sufficient for each student to log-in, using school provided GAFE accounts
  • Access to multiple classroom iPads, with tools identified in the Show What You Know Bingo
Note: The requirement for this assignment was to not use generic applications, however, the activities were created with additional scaffolds (such as sentence frames in the Google Form and only one base word in the Quizlet), to support for English Language Learners acquisition of English.

For additional information about 21st Century Resources for English Language Learners, see Chapter 10 of California's ELA ELD Framework and ELD Foundational Skills.