Cristiane Divina Telles

Patricia Martins Lopes

TULP

Unit Objective:

·  The main goal of this Unit is to have students compare and contrast Urban and Rural schools reflecting the way of lives each community has.

Subunit 1. Rural communities

SWBAT…

Content Objectives:

·  Recognize how life is in Rural communities

·  Understand how the schools are in the countryside

·  Know about work people have in the countryside

Language Objectives:

Introducing vocabulary

·  Check what students already know through brainstorm or KWL

·  Express understanding in what does one have in a schoolhouse, what are the jobs in country side and also talk about the traditions in gardening and harvesting.

Learning Strategy Objective:

·  Students will use scaffolded outlines to sort information about the schoolhouse objects, animals, jobs in rural communities.

·  Read the book "Country schoolhouse" by Lynne Barash, to get more information and familiarity about rural life and country school, going picture walking.

Subunit 2. Urban communities

SWBAT

Content Objectives

·  Recognize what city schools are like

·  Identify and describe the places and objects from city schools

·  Name some professions that people have in cities.

Language Objects

·  Write sentences using the objects and jobs we can find in schools

·  Show pictures on slides: school objects, schools and jobs

·  Scaffolding with profession included.

Learning Strategy Objective

·  Allow students to decide which life style they prefer. Have the students complete a writing assignment justifying why they prefer country or city life

·  Students will create a text about the profession each one like to have.

Subunit 3. Rural communities x Urban communities

SWBAT

Content Objectives

·  Compare and contrast the life in the city and in the country, the job, the schools, the traditions.

Language Objects

·  SW writes on cards contrasting what we can find in schools, what are the jobs and tradition from which community. R C (rural communities) x U C (urban communities) - Schools, jobs and tradition.

Learning Strategy Objective

Venn diagram

·  Allow students to decide which life style they prefer. Have the students complete a writing assignment justifying why they prefer country or city life

                                                                      I am Poem

                      I am special and brave
                      I wonder I would go to Europe next year
                      I hear the birds singing
                      I see a better world
                      I want to be a successful teacher
                      I  am special and brave
                      I intend to escape the false people
                      I feel lucky
                      I touch a star
                      I worry that I won`t see my children grow
                      I cry when I miss my family
                      I am special and brave
                      I understand my mother`s love
                      I say I believe in God
                      I dream that my dreams will come true
                      I try to be a better person
                      I hope everything will be all right
                      I am special and brave.

                                                          Expectations of my First Class

                    I always fell excited when the year starts and I have to enter a new class and meet different students. I like to prepare an interesting class for this day. I prepare games, songs, gifts to make a good impression at the first day. I think the students like me a lot because I bring new idea  to my class every day.

   
                                               Experience in Lenior City Schools

             I visited  the Elementary and High Schools in Lenoir City in the USA. It was a great experience for me because I could realize many differences between Brasilian and American schools. For instance, in Brazil we don`t work full time with the same students, the students do not switch classes and the subjects are a little bit different. The similar things are the way we teach and the problems are the result of the age and not of the  Brasilian schools.

Lesson Plan

Name: Patricia Martins Lopes and Cristiane Telles

Book: Country Schoolhouse

Objective:
Content Objective: Students will be able to understand how are the schools in countryside  and also their lives in the country and all that have in the book story

Learning Strategy Objective:  Students will create some sentences using the vocabulary list that was formed on the board while presenting the book; schools objects, animals...

Activate Background Knowledge: Show students pictures of some kind of schools and specially school farms and what we find in these school ( objects to study ). Teacher say the words of these objects and students to repeat and write on the board after students make sentences using these words orally and written

Brainstorm: The teacher will ask the students if they know what can they find in a farm and What must have in the schools in it. So the teacher catch what students say and write on the board.

Introduce new vocabulary: schoolhouse, country, grades, rooms,school objects(desk, blackboard, chalk...), pumped gas, vegetable, planting, weeding, harvesting...

Show slides with pictures that represent the new vocabulary, ask students to repeat.
Play a memory game of the vocabulary words to reinforce it.

Go through the book showing the pictures and asking the student to create a story based on these pictures

Tell the story by reading the book.

Homework: Write sentences using the vocabulary learned.

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