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1. Lesson Plan Information Subject/Course: ENG1D Grade Level: 9 Topic: Background Jigsaw for Night Name: Hope Colton Date: Feb. 28 Time: 12:55-2:10 Length of Period: 75 minutes

2. Expectation(s) Expectation(s) (Directly from The Ontario Curriculum): Identify the purpose of several different listening tasks and set goals for specific tasks Identify and use several different active listening strategies when participating in a variety of classroom interactions Demonstrate an understanding of several different interpersonal speaking strategies and adapt them to suit the purpose, situation, and audience, exhibiting sensitivity to cultural differences Use appropriate words, phrases, and terminology, and several different stylistic devices, to communicate their meaning and engage their intended audience Identify the important ideas and supporting details in both simple and complex texts Extend understanding of both simple and complex texts by making connections between the ideas in them and personal knowledge, experience, and insights; other texts; and the world around them Identify several different characteristics of literary, informational, and graphic text forms and explain how they help communicate meaning Learning Skills (Where applicable): NA 3. Content What do I want the learners to know and/or be able to do? I want learners to develop positive interdependence and group work skills, while learning about the history of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Holocaust. Today learners will: Today learners will work on developing positive interdependence and group work skills, while learning about the history of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Holocaust, by completing a jigsaw activity. 4. Assessment (collect data) / Evaluation (interpret data) (Recording Devices (where applicable): anecdotal record, checklist, rating scale, rubric) Based on the application, how will I know students have learned what I intended? This activity will allow for students to get peer and teacher input on the information that they acquire and share it with their group members, who have different information from them. (Assessment for and of learning). I will collect their notes at the end of the activity and check them for the correct and complete answers. 5. Learning Context A. The Learners (i) What prior experiences, knowledge and skills do the learners bring with them to this learning experience? Students have been doing group work throughout elementary school. A quick class brainstorm on the Holocaust will allow me to assess how much they already know.
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(ii) How will I differentiate the instruction (content, process and/or product) to ensure the inclusion of all learners? (Must include where applicable accommodations and/or modifications for learners identified as exceptional.) Giftedness. This student is expected to give more in-depth answers to all questions and on all assignments. B. Learning Environment Desks in rows facing the front, student can then move desks into groups. C. Resources/Materials Smartboard, whiteboard, Laptop, handout, information packages 6. Teaching/Learning Strategies INTRODUCTION How will I engage the learners? (e.g., motivational strategy, hook, activation of learners prior knowledge, activities, procedures, compelling problem) Welcome students. Ask students how their short stories went and if they had trouble submitting them. Ask students what they know about Night. Is it a true story? What is it about? Have they ever read any other stories like this? MIDDLE: Teaching: How does the lesson develop? How we teach new concepts, processes (e.g., gradual release of responsibility - modeled, shared, and guided instruction). Give a brief overview of the lead up to World War 2, Hitler and the Nazis, and the Holocaust. Give a brief biography of Elie Wiesel. Give each student a handout. Explain the activity to students (jigsaw). 5 groups of 4, each group will send 1 member to each of the 4 stations to get the required information, which they will bring back and share with the group. Put students into random groups using Ms. Fs app. Consolidation and/or Recapitulation Process: How will I bring all the important ideas from the learning experiences together for/with the students? How will I check for understanding? Class brainstorm about World War 2 and the Holocaust on the whiteboard. Application: What will learners do to demonstrate their learning? (Moving from guided, scaffolded practice, and gradual release of responsibility.) Have students complete the jigsaw activity, after putting the information packages in different corners. Circulate between groups, keeping track of students progress and answering questions. CONCLUSION: How will I conclude the lesson? Remind students to read chapter 1 for tomorrow and complete their journals. Wish students a good day.

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7. My Reflections on the Lesson What do I need to do to become more effective as a teacher in supporting student learning? The students really enjoyed this activity. Though it defiantly took them much longer then I thought, due to several unknown school activities, thus almost half of my class was gone for two days. Thus the activity ended up taking four days. This readily set back my timing, but was worth it because the students really got the background and important historical information for them to truly understand this novel. They learned to work together in small groups more effectively, with the stronger students mentoring the ones that had missed the first two days. They developed positive interdependence and learned more from teaching each other then they would have from any type of PowerPoint lecture and activity. We also ended up looking at the Auschwitz Holocaust Memorial website to find out more information due to the students interest in the subject and complex questions that were not answered by the jigsaw and that I did not know the answers too. Though this lesson had many setbacks it was one of the lessons that the students enjoyed the most and one in which I learned the most because I learned how to adapt to unseen and changing situations.

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