Cathy Woodiwiss Teaching and Technology Lesson Plan on Sounds Aim: How is sound used to tell a story?

Length: 50 minutes Current Unit: I think it would be neat to develop a conceptual unit based on sound. Students could explore sound through science (wavelengths, tuning forks), social studies (what we hear in different places), mathematics (speed of sound), and literature (describing sound). As a project for the unit, they could make a short film recreating sounds they hear in everyday life and applying it to their own short story. Previous Work: Students would be learning literary terms. Materials Needed: Sound Ecology http://soundecology.nfb.ca/#/soundecology/landscape/ The Big Drive by Anita Lebeau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAM54MMyysQ Paper, Pencils Background Information: Number of Students: 12 Grade: Sixth Grade Level: Advanced Linguistic Background: Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Urdu Teaching Points: Reading: Students will read aloud their stories that incorporate onomatopoeia. Writing: Students will draft sentences incorporating onomatopoeia. Listening: Students will listen to the example video, the short movie clip, then the classroom. Speaking: Students will do a turn and talk to discuss how to describe sound. Language: Students will use the simple present tense and simple past to talk about sound. Cross Cultural Awareness: Students will gain cross-cultural knowledge by comparing sound. Compare and contrast how other students of different linguistic backgrounds describe the sounds they hear. ESOL Standards: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and

understanding, literary response, enjoyment and evaluation, for critical analysis & evaluation, for social & classroom interaction, and for cross-cultural knowledge & understanding throughout this lesson as evidenced by the above teaching points. Common Core Standards: Reading: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL6.7 Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they see and hear when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch. Writing: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event spaces. Speaking and Listening: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.5 Include multimedia components (eg graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information. Language: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L6.5 A Interpret literary terms in context. Performance Objective: Students will make connections between sound in everyday life and how sound is depicted in print. The goal for this lesson is for students to start thinking about everyday sounds they hear but go unnoticed. In addition to the sounds that fill their environment, what words are used in print to encapsulate the layered effect of sound in everyday life. Procedure: T will ask Ss if they know what onomatopoeia means. Ss will share, T will give definition. T will ask Ss to listen to a clip on sounds heard in different settings (city, suburbs, nature, hermitage) T will ask Ss to describe with words the sounds they heard in the clip. T will hand out an onomatopoeia word list. T will have them watch another clip. As they watch the clip, they have to write down the sounds they hear. T will ask Ss to close their eyes and listen to the sounds in the video clip Is Silence a Luxury. Ss will then write what they hear, and craft a short paragraph incorporating onomatopoeia Ss will do a turn and talk with a partner. Assessment: Exit Slip: Write a sentence using onomatopoeia describing the sounds heard in the classroom. Homework: Go home and pay attention to the silent noise or white noise. What are the sounds you hear? Is it a fish tanks hum? Is it water trickling through pipes? Is it the

BQE? Write down a list of sounds you hear in your home and try to depict them with onomatopoeia. Write a paragraph describing where you are sitting and the sounds you are hearing.