Lessons Plans: Writers Workshop Week of: 10/23-11/3

Teacher (candidate): Elizabeth Harvey Date: 11/01/17

Lesson Title: To Judge Fairly
Unit: Unit 3, Session 1 (Opinion)
Duration: 45 minutes (total)
15-minute mini lesson
20-minute active engagement
10-minute closer/sharing
Objectives/Standards:
Grade: 6th
Subject: Language Arts Writers
Workshop
Materials/Resources: Vocabulary:
Anchor charts/visuals, writers Opinion, judging/judgement,
notebooks, students evaluating, ranking
collections of items to be
judged
Essential Questions:

Objectives: Teach students to judge fairly about What item is the best in your collection, and
whats best in a collection. why? (opinions+specific reasons=fair
judgement)
Standards: RI.6.8, W.6.1, SL.6.4, L.6.3

Factual Knowledge Procedural Knowledge Conceptual Knowledge

Students will know: Students will be able to: Students will understand:
The importance of building Write opinions supported by The fundamentals/foundation of
opinions to create fair specific reasons. opinion/argumentative writing.
judgment.
Instructional Strategies: Thinking Skills/Student Reflection Skills:
Modeling, whole-group, think-pair-share, Notes in writers notebook, think aloud,
independent practice presentation of opinion with specific reasons
Introduction/hook: Pre-assessment:
Connection to previous lessons/prior N/A
knowledge
Description of award shows
Brief Youtube video about Kids Choice
Awards

Instruction (I do teacher models):

Show students (dragon) collection and how one might go about fairly judging them (process of
judging). Model being a judge at the Americas Best Dragon Show and how they would need to
study one part of each of the things being judged (compare the things you are judgingthink about
all the partsthen make decision which is bestsupport your opinion with reasons.)

Guided Practice (We do shared practice teacher and students):

All students act as judges for my collection (of dragons) while I guide them in the process of fair
decision making by providing reasons. (Model: The___ dragon is the best dragon because___.)
Pair-shareclass-share
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Independence Practice (You do practice collaboratively and/or independently):
Students go off to judge their own collections similarly, writing about the item they like best and
their reasons for this judgement.

Small Group Instruction/Differentiated Practice (if needed):

Group 1: Group 2: Group 3:
Supplemental N/A N/A
material/scaffolding to ELLs

Assessments:
Informal/formative:
Observation of students during pair/share (take notes)
Observation/conferring of students as they complete their own judgments of their
collections (take notes)
Closing:
Reiterate process of judging fairly
And the award goes to stating opinions boldly
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