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Vocabulary Lesson Lesson
context: This lesson is part of an
introductory unit in an integrated skills elective course entitled
American Studies. This particular course will focus on the theme of
justice. The core text for the course is To Kill A Mockingbird by
Harper Lee. Scenes from the film will also be used to illustrate certain
parts of the text. Objectives: to introduce Ss to an important part of the Chapter 1 which is also the basis for the opening scene of the film. The specific objective of the lesson is to have students learn the words in this excerpt which are “off-list” (“off-list” words underlined below which are not part of the 1-2000 frequency word lists and thus would be more challenging when encountered in the reading) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Chapter 1 pp. 5-6 “ Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed even longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a vague time of optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” Materials:
Computers, texts, handouts containing list
of new vocabulary, projector, and AV equipment Procedure:
1. Show Ss the opening scene of the film (without sound) which introduces life in the small southern town where the story takes place. Ask Ss to describe the setting: time place, action. 2. Play the opening scene again with sound. Ask Ss to repeat something they heard. Ask Ss to comment on the feeling of the scene and style of speech: speed, accent, vocabulary. 3. On a projector, show Ss the excerpt from the text which has been run through software on the Compleat Lexical Tutor site to indicate word level. Introduce them to the idea that we are going to study the “off-list” words today. 4.
Students work individually or in pairs and access the new
vocabulary list and some vocabulary activities: http://www.quia.com/jg/493002.html Procedure
con’t. 5.
Next have the students read the passage silently in their text
noting the new words as they read (circle, underline, check). 6.
Then have students work together in pairs on a cloze passage of
the text with some of the new words deleted. http://www.quia.com/cz/42215.html (This can also be done on the
Compleat Lexical Tutor site). Wrap-up: 7.
Finally, show the film clip again and ask the Ss to tick off the
new words (on a handout) as they hear them. Play the clip once more, and
ask Ss to underline the sentences in their text that they hear.
Afterwards, ask them what they notice about the text and the film text. 8. Homework is to make vocabulary notebook entries for these new words. Web
links: http://www.quia.com/jg/493002.html http://www.quia.com/cz/42215.html MJ Danan 5/28/04 |
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Grammar Lesson Lesson context: This lesson is part of an introductory unit in an integrated skills elective course entitled American Studies. This particular course will focus on the theme of justice. The core text for the course is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Scenes from the film will also be used to illustrate certain parts of the text. Objectives: The specific objective of the lesson is to have students briefly look at the use of past tense and adjectives in this passage as a grammar review. (The hoped for byproduct is enhanced reading comprehension.) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Chapter 1 pp. 5-6 “ Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed even longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a vague time of optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” Materials:
Computers, texts, and AV equipment Procedure:
1. Ask students to look at the passage again and determine what tense is used most throughout and why. 2. Have students work in pairs to review the formation of the past tense on the charts in: http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/Tenses9.cfm Then have them look at http://grammar.englishclub.com/verb-tenses_past.htm
Have them take the simple past online quiz at this site. 3.
Next have students work together in pairs to find all the verbs
in the passage in the text. (compare counts) 4.
This time have students focus on adjectives. Students should go
to the following website to quickly review adjective function: http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/ADJECTIVES3.cfm 5. Ask student pairs to find all
the adjective + noun combinations in the passage. (compare counts) 6.Have students go to http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/ADJECTIVES4.cfm
to review adjective word order: Can they find an example of the use of this in the passage? Wrap-up: 7. Finally, show the film clip again and ask the Ss to listen closely for the verbs and adjectives. 8. Web
links: http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/Tenses9.cfm http://grammar.englishclub.com/verb-tenses_past.htm http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/ADJECTIVES3.cfm http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/ADJECTIVES4.cfm MJ Danan 5/28/04 |
Dafne Gonzalez
May, 2004
