Lesson Plan

Day: Wednesday Date: 20/3/2019 Time: 9:45 Year: 8

Learning Area: English. Topic: Exploring cultural backgrounds.
Curriculum content description:
Understand how conventions of speech adopted by communities influence the identities of people in those
communities (ACELA1541)
Explore the interconnectedness of Country/Place, People, Identity and Culture in texts including those by
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors (ACELT1806)

Students’ prior knowledge and experience:

Students have explored aspects of Chinese culture through ‘Chinese Cinderella’

Learning purpose: To being students thinking of their own culture and what it means.

Learning objectives: Evaluation:

On completion of this lesson, students will be able to: Students will fill out a worksheet while
Begin to identify unique aspects of their culture and completing research about the countries their
explain where they have come from. parents were born in.

Preparation and Resources:

Access to Macbooks.
Worksheets.
Stationary.
Timing: Learning Experiences:

Introduction:
20 mins (five for Greet class at the door, explain what they will need to take out before they sit down
class to come in and commence reading for the first 15 minutes of the lesson.
and get settled,
15 for reading).

2 mins to enter Give students two minutes to enter their reading log into their books.
reading into logs.

30 mins. Students will continue working on their worksheets.

- They will have 10 minutes of completely silent work followed by 10 minutes of
quiet talking and so on throughout the lesson as their behaviour in the previous
lesson was poor and students did not achieve much. This is the last lesson with
the Macbooks so they must finish their worksheets.
 Management of behaviour:
The year 8’s previous lesson I struggled to control their talking. They will have 10
minutes of silence and then 10 minutes of quiet talking.

Lesson conclusion:
The last 10 minutes of the class I will ask students to return the Macbooks to the
trolley. Put their worksheets into their folders and remind them that what they have
done will help them with their assessment.
10 mins

Lesson Evaluation:
Students were very chatty and off topic for this lesson. Some managed to do a reasonable amount of work. I
had to keep a couple of students back to talk about their behaviour despite multiple warnings. I found it was a
difficult lesson but I’m putting it down to them seeing a new face in the classroom.