Planning Instruction for Diverse Students Education Essay

Planning Instruction for Diverse Learners
Sample Lesson Plan
Name: Trisha Allen
Grade/Topic: 6th Grade ELA
Lesson Name: Plot Diagram
National/State Learning Standard: Arizona's English Language Arts Standards – 6th Grade 6.RL.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes and how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Academic Language: Exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, plot, plot diagram
Specific Learning Targets/Objective: Students will be able to identify story elements of a fable and defend why they would be defined as exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Anticipatory Set: Students will watch a brief video introducing a plot diagram through the Disney movie "The Lion King." Students will be asked throughout the video if they can identify other favorite movies (or books) that contain a coinciding element of the plot diagram. Students will use these examples later on in the lesson.
Multiple Means of Representation: Define vocabulary and provide specific examples of these terms in various books, fables, and movies. Explain that as a story progresses, characters' actions generally follow a predictable format. Using an example of a recent animated blockbuster movie, have students identify the plot diagram's different aspects.
Multiple Means of Expression: Students will diagram the plot of a short fable using vocabulary from the lesson. Students will defend their rationale on the provided diagram sheet.
Differentiating for Diverse Learner
Multiple Means of Representation: Define vocabulary and provide specific examples of these terms in various books, fables, and movies. Explain that as a story progresses, characters' actions generally follow a predictable format. Using an example of a recent animated blockbuster movie, have students identify the plot diagram's different aspects.
Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory

Lesson Activity

Interpersonal
Intelligence

Using The Lion King as an example, have students pick out their best characters and which were their worst characters. Given that movies tend to follow a certain plot, the characters defined as good or bad by the students will tend to be similar. List these characters on the board. Let the students explain why each of the characters was good and why another character was bad.
Movies tend to show us the kinds of persons we are (Breen et al., 2017). Are we individuals who support vengeance, or are we peacemakers. Therefore, this lesson activity is good for interpersonal intelligence because it will help bring out students' emotional reactions based on the movie.

Intrapersonal Intelligence

Using The Lion King, have students name the characters they liked in the movie and the characters they did not like. List the different characters on the board. Then have the students explain why they liked certain characters and why they did not like others. Based on this information, ask the students individually whom they would like to be among the listed characters. Then ask them why they would like to be a certain character.
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