Lesson Plan

Day: Monday Date: 25/3/2019 Time: 12:35 Year: 8

Learning Area: English Topic: Cultural background

Curriculum content description: Understand how conventions of speech adopted by communities

influence the identities of people in those communities (ACELA1541)
Explore the interconnectedness of Country/Place, People, Identity and Culture in texts including those by
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors (ACELT1806)
Students’ prior knowledge and experience:
Students have begun researching where their parents come from and the cultures and traditions of their
respective countries.
Learning purpose: To begin students thinking of their own culture and what it means. This will help them
gather information for their presentation assessment.

Learning objectives: Evaluation:

On completion of this lesson, students will be able to: A completed worksheet on where their families
Identify unique aspects of their culture and explain where come from.
they have come from. A snapshot of the unique aspects of their culture.

Preparation and Resources:

Access to Macbooks.
Worksheets.
Stationary.
Coloured pencils etc for their snapshots.
Timing: Learning Experiences:

Introduction:
Greet class at the door, explain what they will need to take out before they sit down and
17 mins
commence reading for the first 15 minutes of the lesson.

Sequence of learning experiences:

Students will finish working on their worksheets and for those who finish, they will work
on creating a snapshot of their country using the template provided.

Management of behaviour:
Listening x2 then names on the board for detention.
I am going to try the 10 minutes of quiet focused work with timings written on the board
followed by some quiet chatting.

Lesson conclusion:
I will ask each student for something interesting they have learnt about their country.
Remind them that they will meet us at the library on Tuesday.
Lesson Evaluation:
Students were very restless this lesson. My mentor had a meeting with another teacher and so they had a
different English teacher in for the lesson. They would not settle, and I had to keep the entire class in for
detention for 5 minutes at lunch.

Some worked well and were focused but for the most part the rest did not.

It is difficult to keep them under control, even for an experienced teacher- as I noted with the teacher who
filled in, but I will try and develop some better strategies to deal with negative behaviour.