Faith Booker

November 4, 2014
LT 3210
DMA Lesson Plan
Lesson Title:

Scholarly Blogging

Grade Level:

7th

Subject:

English Language Arts

Description of Learning Goals, Standards, Objectives

CC/GPSs:

ELACC7RI1
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of
what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn
from the text.
ELACC7W9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support
analysis, reflection, and research.
ELACC7W10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for
research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a
single sitting or a day or two) for a range of disciplinespecific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

National Technology
Standards:

2. Communication and Collaboration

Students use digital media and environments to communicate
and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support
individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
1. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or
others employing a variety of digital environments and
media
2. Communicate information and ideas effectively to
multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats
3. Develop cultural understanding and global awareness
by engaging with learners of other cultures
4. Contribute to project teams to produce original works or
solve problems

Long-Term Learning
Goal or Outcome:

Students will build critical thinking skills through being aware

of current events. Students will also learn to form a sound
opinion with supporting facts through research and be able to
project those opinions in an appropriate writing format.
Additionally, students will learn the lessons of citing resources

and plagiarism.

ABCD Objectives or
Outcomes:

Students will develop writing skills through blogging. With this

assignment students should develop critical thinking skills in
order to place their well thought out opinions in text, sharing
them in a blog environment with their other classmates.
Description of Assessment

Assessment Plan:

The teacher will assess the students understanding of the

assignment by finding evidence in each students blog that
they fully understand the story and its thematic pieces by
being able to write a well, thought out review.
The teacher will also be able to assess the understanding of
the content through the students responses to one anothers
blogs.

Description of Activities with Technology and Materials

Activity Design:

Students will create an account at

edublogs.org where they will report weekly
in order to write a review on the
childrens literature piece that is assigned
for that week whether its a short story or
chapter book that the class is finally
finishing. The review must be at least two
paragraphs in length. Students will also be
responsible for responding to a classmates
blog in 3-4 sentences.

Class Starter and Lesson Connection:

Have you ever heard of a blog? Do you own

your own blog website? If so, what do you
include in your blogs? What do you think is
a blog?

Teacher and Student Activities:

Teacher will discuss what it is to blog.

Teacher will write down the class ideas of
what blogging is.
Teacher will explain what a book review is
and show examples of a few in class.
Teacher will introduce edublogs.com
Teacher will already have an account and a
review of the first short story that was read
in class to students.

(Technology Connection):

Students will have access to a computer

and be able to create their own account.

Students will personalize their own blog

website, add classmates and teacher so
that their blog will be visible to one
another, and write their first blog based on
the short story read earlier in the week.

Materials and Resources:

Materials needed in this lesson are:

Computers/Computer Lab
Internet Access
Teachers Account for Example