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Observation

Instructional Lesson

Classroom: Winget Park Grade: 5th Curriculum Area: Language Arts- Language Review

Observer: Emily Jackson Date: March 12, 2014 Time: 8:30

What I notice

Thoughts, Questions, Connections to Methods Classes The teacher began the lesson by placing Here I was surprised to see how little sentences on Smart Board- Students try to students knew about parts of speech. Some identify different parts of language (complete seemed confused and were making random subject, simple subject, predicate, noun) guesses just to have some sort of answer. Students are asked to complete an analogyteacher mentions how two things are alike or different- how are they related? Botanist & GeologistDefinition of an idiom- teacher calls on students for explanation- Student responses: figure of speech doesnt actually mean what it says -Sentence says: she will believe you when pigs fly Student responses: Is it sarcasm? Students create a 3 flap brochure- then cut the first flap into fifths- 5 fantasy words: Allegory, Symbolism, Motif, Allusion, and Archetype to be worked on later. Rotations continueBathroom breakStudents bring brochure back out- they write definitions for 5 fantasy wordsAllegory: a deeper moral meaning of the characters and events in the story. Symbolism: an object represents something else. Archetype: search to obtain something The students worked to make educated guesses about what the teacher was asking them. They truly didnt know what some of the questions/terms meant.

Some students had trouble with this. A few brochures ended up backwards or upside down. The teacher and I had to go around and worked with the students individually to assist them.

Here the teacher writes the definitions for the students up on the SMART board which I felt to be a little too easy for most kids. They sat and copied her notes but didnt put forth much effort on their own.

Allusion: reference to another event or person Motif: a shape that keeps repeating and has deeper meaning After reading The Empty Pot teacher has students refer back to their yellow brochure Where they wrote their words and drew a picture to correspond. Teacher instructs students to find their flap with the word symbolism on it. They are to write the empty pot symbolizes truth. They then were instructed to find the allegory flap and write Ping or character represents honesty as the best policy. Motif in the story means flowers equal dishonesty and so on. The students LOVE being read stories! They were engaged with every word. I really liked and thought it was beneficial that the teacher had the students make references back to their brochure chart here to find and explain words and examples from the story they were reading.

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