LESSON TITLE: The Art of Arguing Lesson #: 3
TEACHER NAME: Dasia Dunn DATE: 04/24/2020
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Preparation/Planning
ESL Course: Conversation,
speaking and listening
Topic/Theme:
Listening
Objectives
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Bridging
What background knowledge
do the students already have?
What will you do to activate
or link students’ prior
knowledge or experience to
upcoming content?
Engagement with New Material
What will you do to engage
students in the active learning
of the new material?
Level Beginning Intermediate Advanced Multilevel
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Students will listen to each others arguments during our class debate,
and they will respond to these arguments using what they have heard.
Students will use conversation skills when discussing the quote of the
day, they will also discuss the vocabulary and come up with rules to
have a successful and respectful debate with one another. Finally
students will break out into groups to discuss reasons and evidence for
their claims, then they will come back together as a group to argue their
claims to one another. Speaking will is the biggest objective for this
lesson. Students will practice expressing their opinions verbally.
Students will read instructions throughout the class. They will also read
vocabulary definitions and the quote of the day.
Students will write down reasons to support their claims and they will
write down one counterclaim.
Students have done a previous lesson where we watched a video about
the art of arguing on Youtube, and students had a conversation using
discussion questions about this video. We also did a vocabulary
activity where the students learned the new vocabulary words for this
lesson and wrote them down in their google doc journals.
I will review the vocabulary that we covered in the last lesson to
activate the students schema. We will do a kahoot activity where
students will have to define the six vocabulary words from our last
lesson. Then we will review the vocabulary as a class.
We will use what we have learned about debating and arguing to hold
our own debate as a class. Students will be broken into groups and
come up with ideas to argue a claim. Then we will come back together
as a class and students will debate their opposing sides with one
another.
What will you do to ensure
that all students are engaged?
Application
What opportunities will you
provide students to practice
and apply their
knowledge/skill to meet the
objectives for this lesson? To
apply to other contexts?
Assessment
How will you assess their
learning of the objectives?
Closing
How will you help students
recap the learning and link it
back to the original purpose
of the lesson?
Technology
If applicable for your context
and your lesson, how will you
meaningfully integrate
technology into your lesson?
Reflection
What went well? How do you
know?
I will have students participate in a kahoot vocabulary activity to get
them engaged. They will also come up with 5 rules for our class
debate. Students will then break into groups and come up with 3
reasons to support their claims and 1 counterclaim that the opposing
group might present. Then they will present these claims in a debate
with the class.
Students will have the opportunity to debate with one another. This
will give them the opportunity to practice what they have learned
about through vocabulary, discussions and the videos that we have
watched in class. This will lead to our next session which will show
students how to use evidence to support their claims in a debate. This i
I will assess their knowledge of the vocabulary through our kahoot
activity. I will also assess their understanding and grasp of the subject
when they are coming up with class rules, and while they are debating
against one another. Finally I will assess students listening and
speaking skills while they are debating against one another.
To recap the learning we will debrief on how our first class debate
went. We will talk about how we thought we did, what steps we had to
take, what went well and what did not.
I will be using zoom, power point, kahoot and google docs throughout
this lesson. This will allow students to have access to all of the
materials and to collaborate with one another even though we are not
meeting physically.
I did well with my time management. I know this because I made the
conscious decision not to rush my students and have them complete
the last activity that I had planned, even though it was the most
important one. I think that student engagement was another highlight
of this lesson, the students seemed interested in developing their
arguments and sharing their stances. Since that went well I believe that
I properly executed the main goal of my lesson plan which was to get
students speaking and listening to one another, and having a basic
understanding of debating/ arguing.
What didn’t go as planned?
What contingency plan did
you employ?
What would you do
differently next time?
Did your students meet the
purpose and objectives for
this lesson? What is your
evidence for each?
What do your students need
next? How do you know?
What did you learn about
your glows and grows as a
teacher? What can you do to
work on your areas needing
growth?
I had some technical difficulties with zoom, which made me a bit
flustered. Also, I really wanted to get to the last activity but there was
not enough time for it, so I had to end the lesson early.
I had some back up topics for students to use for the debate if they did
not like the topic that I chose. I also had a video that we could have
watched again if students needed more clarification on the subject that
we were covering.
Next time I would have some back up rules for students in case they
could not think of their own debate rules. I would also have students
watch the video from the previous lesson on the art of arguing again.
Another thing that I would do is slow down the time on my kahoot so
that students had a better chance at reading the questions.
Yes, they did. I know this because I got to see their responses to my
kahoot questions, I also got to see how much they new about debating
when they were coming up with rules for our debate. Finally when
they were in groups I got to see what they came up with as arguments
for the positions that they were assigned and how well they understood
the terms from the vocabulary.
Next students need to practice the skill or debating. Also I need to
clarify between the difference of arguing and debating. I know these
things because the students never got the opportunity to debate due to
time. So they still need to practice. Also, a student asked me about the
difference between arguing and dating, which let me know that I
needed to make a clear distinction.
I learned that I bring a positive and welcoming energy to my students
and that I can actually create and execute a full lesson plan for
students. I also learned that I need to practice my lessons beforehand,
because I do tend to get nervous. Also I should make sure I am
familiar with every tool im using, especially if it has to do with
technology. Because I am not the most technologically inclined
person. Finally I learned that I love when my students share their
stories, I think group conversation is so important.