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 **Jen Singer’s Lesson Plan** //**Planning**// **Date:**  January 5, 2010 **Class and Grade Level** : 7th Grade English

**Title/Subject of Lesson** : Giver Themes: Glogster Posters

**Objectives:**
 * Students will be able to identify themes in //The Giver// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and will be able to freewrite about those themes from a main character’s perspective
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students will create a poem that connects their ideas of theme with what they have learned about figurative language, W-Questions, and sensory details
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students will show their understanding of theme through their creation of a computer-generated poster, including their poem, color ideas, and other images to represent their understanding

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**State Core Objectives: Standard 1, Objective 3:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comprehend literature using elements of narrative and poetic text <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Standard 2, Objectives 1 and 2:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Retell or summarize and make connections to clarify thinking through writing; Write to identify and reflect on feelings to recreate experiences. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Concepts to be taught:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">poetry, emotions and main ideas in poetry, figurative language, description through writing with sensory details, color and emotions, W-Questions, themes in literature

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Materials Needed** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Giver novels, paper, pencils, computers, my Glog example to show, notecards

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Strategies Used:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> freewrites, think-pair-share, technology with more materials available, multiple intelligences (color, art, music, computers, writing, etc.)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//**Performing**// <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Announcements:**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Lesson Presentation: A. Getting Started** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Journal Write: What are some of the themes (or lessons you have been learning) in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//The Giver// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? Some of the major topics we’ve covered are: choice, control, family, love, friendship, knowledge vs. wisdom, color, independence, and responsibility. What lessons has this author been trying to teach you about these subjects? How has she taught those lessons? What have the characters done to show what they believe in and what they think is important in life? What do you think about these same things? (Students have 7-10 minutes to write about this, then we will <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Pair-Share** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with our Family Units) -Now that you’ve shared with your Family Units, tell me what ideas you came up with. What are some of the major lessons we’ve been learning from this book? Why are those lessons so important to us now? (take one or two volunteers from each Family Unit, especially the more shy students and those I don’t hear from very often) -Today, we are going to be focusing on the THEMES in this novel. I want you to take out a brand new piece of paper. On the top of that paper, you’ll need to label it “GIVER THEME POEM.” -We are going to create poems together, based on some of the themes you’ve been talking about. Let me show you what <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**will** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> be required, and then we’ll take it step by step. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**B. Directing the Learning** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-First, you must have at least six lines that give information about all the W-Questions. For example, we need to know WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW that THEME is being experienced in your poem. So let’s start with my example. One theme that I have found in the story is that EVEN WHEN YOU FEEL ALONE, THE WORLD IS FULL OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS. I especially want to focus on the beauty of the earth and the beauty of having friends who experience things with you. So in my poem, I will make JONAS my narrator, and I think I’ll talk about the loneliness he feels at times and the way he’s able to deal with that. *On the board, make a list and have the students help me identify some things I could include:

Who—Jonas What—Loneliness, Sadness, Pain/Happiness, Joy, Hope Where—his community When—early in the morning, before he goes to Training again Why—no one experiences the emotions he does, no one has his knowledge How—he can have a memory pop into his mind, and it will remind him that he’s all alone in feeling it

-Secondly, you need to write 5 lines, each using one of the 5 senses. Let’s make a list, again, of what those senses are:

Sight—Jonas sees the rain, empty homes, Sound—he hears the “pitter patter” and the “clinking clanking” Smell—he smells the fresh, clean scent of newness Taste—he tastes the sweet bread he eats every morning for breakfast Touch—he feels the wetness of rain, he feels the breeze brush his cheek, he feels the sun on his face -And lastly, you need to write 3 lines, each including one of the types of figurative language we have talked about in class (simile, metaphor, and personification): let’s make a list of those on the board, and we’ll see what maybe we could include:

Simile—rain as clean as new dish towels and tunics in the community Metaphor—The rain is a storyteller Personification—the rain laughs, tells its stories, whispers, etc. -It’s your turn, now, to create your very own poems! You can follow my example, or you can take your own route, as long as you follow the requirements. This must have 14 lines, and it must have the 6 W-Questions answered, the 5 senses included, and the 3 types of figurative language apparent. Besides that, you are free to do what you want to make this your own unique poem. -Let’s start by having you write down answers to your W-Questions…*Then, you will write down ideas for your 5 senses: what does your narrator (Jonas? Giver? Someone else?) see, hear, taste, touch, smell? *Now, how are you going to include figurative language? -All right, now it’s time to put these ideas you’ve just written down ALL TOGETHER. If you want to have a rhyming poem, this is the time to start rhyming things. If you just want to make your poem free-flowing and beautiful, but not rhyming, that is fine, too. *Give the next 20 minutes to write -When students have finished writing the poems, they will head to the computer lab: You need to log onto Google Chrome, but do not go any farther than the school’s homepage until everyone is logged on. *Once there, direct the students too <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.glogster.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. -Each student needs to sign up for a Glogster account if they do not have one, or they need to log on to their previously created username. Once into the site, students are ready to create their first glogs. -To begin your Glog, you first need to decide what kind of background you’d like. Remember, we have talked a great deal about COLOR and how important COLOR is to EXPRESSING EMOTIONS and how it plays a part in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//THE GIVER// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. You need to carefully decide on a color palate for your poster. On the screen, you will see a bright pink icon that says CREATE GLOG. Click on that icon. Now, on the screen, you’ll see a basic template. On the left hand side, there is a toolbar. It allows you to change the background (the wall), the text, the images (pictures), add music, and do other things you’d like to do. First, you need to choose your background—keeping in mind the color decision you made earlier. To change the background, you’ll click on “WALL” and then click on the left-hand side of the new bubble screen that pops up to view new background options. There are hundreds of pages to choose from. Make sure your background fits well with the ideas and emotions your poems is expression. When you have chosen the WALL (or background) you want, click “USE IT!” and then hit the small X button in the top left corner of the bubble screen. -Next, you need to write your poem’s text in the poster. Click on “TEXT” from the toolbar on the left. Choose a text that fits your poem and fits well with the background color and design you have chosen. To choose the text type you like, click “USE IT!”, then hit the small X button in the top left corner of the bubble screen. The text you have chosen should appear on the Glog. Click on that text box, then hit the EDIT button that appears in the new tool box above your textbox. Now, you’ll need to type your poem inside the textbox. When you’re all done typing, go to the top of the textbox again, and, using the toolbar, make any editing corrections you’d like (center the words, change the font size, shape, or color, make the words bold or shadowed, etc.) -Finally, you may add a picture to your posters. You can search online for pictures by going to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. From this site, you may pull up pictures that you feel can express the emotions your poem is trying to share. If you want to attach these pictures to your poster, you need to first RIGHT CLICK on the picture you want, then push SAVE PICTURE AS, and save the picture under your file on the school computers. Save it under a name you will remember. Then, back in Glogster, you will click on ”IMAGES” from the toolbox on the left hand side of the Glog, hit “UPLOAD” from the new window that pops up, and then begin the search for your saved picture. *Adding pictures to your poster is TOTALLY optional. Some posters will look better WITH pictures, and some will look better WITHOUT. YOU be the judge! -When your Glog is completed, you need to PREVIEW it all. Make sure the layout is just right, that the words are all fitting correctly, and that the letters and spacing look right. Double check your spelling and grammar. Then, turn to your neighbor and have them double check the entire Glog. Neighbors, when you have checked your partner, raise your hand and tell me that person is ready to save. *I’ll be walking around checking computers throughout* -Once students are finished, they may save all their work and PUBLISH their Glogs. I will have them all write down their Glog numbers or their links so that I can look at and grade their Glogs at home tonight. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**C. Bringing the Lesson to a Close** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-This term, we’ve been focusing on the importance of using poetry and color to express emotions and themes we see in literature. You have all done a wonderful job expressing some of the deep emotions and most important themes in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//The Giver// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> through your poems. Your W-Questions helped me clearly see the settings, your use of the 5 senses helped me feel like I was right there, and your figurative language gave your writing that poetic touch. Adding these poems to a colorful and intricately-designed background really helped me see how well you have put together the ideas of color and theme in this story. For many of you, the ideas of rules and regulations are very apparent as you’ve used only black and white. For others, it is clear that you think choice is very important, as you’ve used lots of different colors. And still for others, I can see that you are sensing a change in the world—perhaps a newfound freedom and hope—because of the color RED. Very nicely done! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Assignments:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Finish Glogs if not done ;-* <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Evaluation** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
 * Now, show the students my poem: Ask them to point out the six W-Questions as they see them, the 5 senses where they appear, and the 3 types of figurative language. How did I include all the requirements without making this poem sound too boring? (I intermingled a lot of these ideas, but still kept it at least 14 lines long)

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