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Writing and Oral Assessment

TULP - Teaching Unit Lesson Plan

Marilia Candido Jacomini

Eliana de Brito Alves

TULP

OCEAN  

•  Habitat
• Animals
• How humans affect ocean animals

Unit Objectives

Students will understand ocean biodiversity, interactions among ocean animals, and humanity`s impact on marine life.

Subunit 1: Habitat

SWBAT...

Content objective:

Recognize the ocean; describe the ocean and identify ocean layers

Language objective: Express writing three sentences about the ocean's layers (deep of the sea, the middle and its surface)

Language Strategy Objective: use a representative scheme of the three ocean's layers to organize their writing.

Subunit 2: Animals

SWBAT...

Content Objective: describe ocean animals, including their life cycle, adaptations, and relationships.

Language Objective: develop the academic vocabulary related ocean animals.

Language Strategy Objective: create a picture dictionary (the students will search some pictures of ocean animals and after write the name of them)

Subunit 3: How humans affect ocean animals

SWBAT...

Content Objective: understand the impact of human action on marine life (i.e., pollution, fishing, hunting, oil spills)

Language Objective: orally discuss on the impact humans have on marine life.

Language Strategy objectives: orally demonstrate the impact of human action on marine life using cards and pictures.



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I am Poem

                                                                                 I AM POEM

               I am a dreamer and happy girl
              I wonder how to understand the people
              I hear the sound of my heart
              I see beautiful flowers
              I want to be a good teacher.
              I am a dreamer and happy girl.

              I pretend to visit places that I don`t know
              I feel blessed
              I touch the sky
              I worry about my feelings
              I cry when I am sad.
              I am a dreamer and happy girl.

              I understand that God is all
              I say that God know all things
              I dream of traveling more times
              I try to do my best
              I hope to be a successful person because
              I am a dreamer and happy girl.

My Atlanta Experience

We went to Atlanta and we stayed at Marriott Courtyard Hotel. I saw many things: Chickamauga battlefield, Aquarium, CNN, MLK Center. The most interesting thing was Dolphins` show. It was a beautiful and exciting show. I learned many things about U.S. history, mainly in the MLK Center.

TULPs

       TULPs is a good method because it helps students understand connections from the real world and life experiences. We could use them to explain more about the specific content. For example, talking about games, movies, environment, countries, music, etc.
     

Anxiety in the classrooms

Comunicating in a second language becomes a difficult and painful exercise for many students because some of them are anxious and they should overcome their fears to develop second language., Depending on the environment and activities in the classroom, the teacher can help these students or develop more anxiety. As an English teacher, I like to use  images, books, issues related to the daily life of students, presentations,  videos, and mainly I talk to my students by a friendly way. All this is important to provide a safe environment to my students, because "the key to helping second language learners is to provide a supportive environment" (Tara Allen )

Mentor Teacher

           On Friday, February 01, we had a meeting with our mentor Leandra Hill. First of all, we introduced ourselves and she explained for us the goal of the meeting. Then, she started to read our plans and talk about it one by one.
            In my lesson plan she said to me that was important to change one objective (Language Objective by Learning Strategy Objective).
            This moment was pretty good because we discussed about different types of classrooms, different types of school. It was a great time for us.

Pre-reading activities

Pre-reading activities are so important because the students can imagine the text, talk about what they know. The teacher also can use any activity that interests students in the text and motivates them to read the book or the story. So, when the students start the reading they are going to be curious about the story and they are going to improve their English Vocabulary.

Pre-reading Activity Lesson Plan

Pre-reading Activity Lesson Plan Example

Name: Eliana de Brito Alves

            Marilia Jacomini

Book: Turtle in the Sea – Jim Arnosky

Objectives:

Content Objective: Students will be able to understand how is the way of life: birth, the hardships of life and reproduction.

Language Objective: Students will be able to re-tell the narrative, orally using sequence words: first, next, then, after that, finally. Also they will use responding questions with who, what, when, where, why and how.

Activate background knowledge: Students will create a large word web on the board to write down what they know about the sea.

Introduce new vocabulary:  jellyfish, shore, shell, coral reef, shark, coral cave, ships, and hatchings.

Strategy of introduction of new vocabulary: The teacher shows pictures of the vocabulary words and attaches them on the board. The teacher says one word and a student goes to the board and takes the picture. If it`s correct the student will win a prize if it`s wrong the teacher will call another student.

Picture walk: The teacher will show the cover of the book and ask to the students: “What can you see?”, “Look… There are fish here.”, “Where do they live?”, “What is this animal?”,  “It is a turtle. She is trying to save herself.”, “What is that?” “It`s a ship.”, “What happened?”, “Well, it`s the sunset. Let`s observe the turtle`s face. Is she frightened?”, “Why?” “Wow! Look at this net! What is going to happen?”, “Who is that man?”, “Is he good or bad?”, “ Why?”...

Obs.: According to the context, these questions can be changed.

An extra activity: Enjoying one of the texts of the book, the teacher can purpose that the students repeat the bold words and imitate the sound of the sea.

The shark bit her shell,

but she escaped by diving

and hiding in a coral cave.

There she stayed, holding her breath

until the shark finally swam away.

Her shell was scarred.

Her back was sore.

She never again drifted

on the surface close to shore.

Visiting Lenoir School

We visited the Lenoir School on Wednesday, 30^th. It was a great time for us

First, we went to Elementary school; there it was so funny because the kids are cute. We saw many activities that they produced and I attended an ESL class. We saw the student`s activities and listened to the story that the teacher was telling them.

After that, we went high school and there we had the opportunity to talk to American teachers about the education in the U.S. and the education in Brazil.

We attended drama classes and the students surprised me they participated, laughed, had fun and mainly, they learned.  After that we attended English classes. The students wrote an essay in a class before and in this class they corrected them using a chart. One thing that was interesting for me was the student`s behavior, because they respected the teacher by raising their hands when they want to talk.

There are some differences between Americans and Brazilian schools. In America students go to another classroom, in Brazil the teachers go to student`s classroom. In the classrooms here are many materials like: books, laptops, etc…, in our classrooms in Brazil don`t have them. We have libraries, lab, but not in the classrooms.

There are some similar things like ages that the students start to study, grades, and schedules.

So, this experience was so interesting and important for us.