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From Good To Outstanding: Louise Radford

KingsburyHigh School

Lesson Plan for Classroom Observation

Lesson structure/main activities

Starter

Students to do the sheet on the table in front of them. It’s the sheet from the SOW where the students have to identify the terms used to label people. Ask the students how they would say one word in three different ways. Model for them
Make sure they understand there is no right or wrong answer.
What do you think tone means?
Ask Kim (New EAL student) what tone means – as a double check that she understands the word.
Look at the word half-caste and explain the meaning, to the students. / Groupings/timing
5 mins
Introduction
Give the students all the lines from the poem and ask them to group the lines. These will be categories to put the lines into.
Explain that the important thing is that they could go anywhere, how you would explain where you put it based on the language of the line. There is space for them to write down their ideas on the sheet.
Categories
Loudly
Quietly
Sarcastically
Humorously
Angrily
Feedback from three students on how and why they would say the lines in this way.
Explain that the lines come from a poem half-caste.
Give out copies of the poem?
Then play them the poem. Ask them if they said the lines in the same way as Agard.
Play the poem.
I read the poem
Then they read the poem to each other.

Ask the students to switch the reading half way through

Questions
Danyal
Tell me one tone of voice that could be usd in the poem?
Luke
Give me a quote to back-up what Danyal said
Rachel
Can you use language to explain way Danyal might have said it in this way?
Development
Explain to the students that we are going to write a PEE paragraph.
How does Agard use tone to show his feelings on the term half –caste?
Show them the example and then hi-light the different sections.
Tell the students that they will be performing AF5 here.
Pull out the good points
Ie
10 minutes guided.
Move students into the guided session. (adjust seating plan , so this can be done quickly).
I will have one guided group Jayen can type his paragraph and the rest will work independently.
Plenary

Give them the question

See guided plan.

For example they need to use a concise quote

Embed it in the paragraph

I will have one guided group Jayen can type his paragraph and the rest will work independently.

See guided plan

Plenary

Feed back Jayen’s paragraph and draw out all the good points and targets.

Then ask each student to write down one good point and one target for themselves.