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Math Lesson

Grade 2: Writing Goal

In written narratives, students organize and relate a story line/plot/ series of events.
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__Objective W.2- 4.1__ Students will demonstrate an understanding of written narratives in relation to a story plot, line and series of evens through creating a clear, understandable story line, with a beginning, middle and end, when given a structure.

__Assessment through:__ -Read a specific story and identify the plot, line and what is happening. -Create their own story using characters from story that was read as a class to then generate plot, events, theme

__Pre-Assessment:__ I will first read a story with my students, using guided reading in order for them to discover the plot, story line, and each important event that occurs. I will then give my students a story map to fill out, identifying the plot, major events, and story line (theme) of the story.

__Materials:__ · “Strega Nona” Children’s book. · Story Map · Writing paper for students to begin writing their own short story.

__Introduction:__ To begin my instruction on plot and themes of stories, I will have my students come to the rug, while I read the story, “Strega Nona” for them. Before I begin doing so, I will write on the board, the definitions of “events,” “plot,” and “story line.” I will explain each in great detail, asking questions to ensure my students understand.

__Lesson Development:__ I will tell my students to raise their hand when they feel that I have just read an important event in this story. I will write down all the events that the students give me on the board as I read. Before sending students back to their seats, when I have finished reading the story, I will give them a story map to take back with them. I will explain to them that while looking at the board of “Events” in the story I just read, I want them to list in the space provided, the three events that they believe are the most important in “Strega Nona.” With this written down, they are then to write down, in the space provided, the “plot” of the story, while they have their three most important events of the story already written in front of them. These events should include a beginning, middle and end sequence. Then, they are to determine what the appropriate story line is, based on this information that they just wrote down on their paper.

__Closure:__ As students will be sent back to their seats, to work on their story maps, I will walk around the room, implying as to why I think the student believes one event to be more important than another. I will question their motives and reasoning and ask their own interpretations of what a “plot” and “story line” is.

__Assessment:__ In order to assess that my students grasp the concepts, “plot,” “story line,” and “events” of a story, I will give them paper to write their own story, using the characters in “Strega Nona.” They will have to create their own events, separate from the story that we just read. At the end of it, I will have them fill out the same story map, stating the “plot,” “story line,” as well as listing the three major events that took place in his or her story, being the "beginning, middle, and ending."

__Learner Factors:__ For those students that need modifications, I will make sure each of these students gives me an “event” on the rug. If one of them, or neither of my students with disabilities raise their hands to give me an event while I am reading, I will give the definition of “event” to my students by going more in depth. I will want to make sure they fully grasp this concept. I will also go straight to these students that have disabilities, when they are back at their desks, asking them questions to make sure they understand “plot” and “story line” before questioning and assessing the other students as they work.

__Environment:__ When first beginning this lesson on “Story Structure,” my students and I will be on the rug, with me in a chair and the students in rows, sitting Indian style. After the book is read, students will be at their desks, working on their story maps and own, individual stories.