Lesson Plan- CALLA Approach

Universidad del Turabo

Escuela de Estudios Profesionales

Programa Ahora

Lesson Plan

I. Objective

The students will:

a. Learn to use graphic organizers (life map) as pre-writing activity for writing their autobiography.

b. Identify key moments of their lives to use in the creation of their life maps.

c. Organize, in chronological order, the key moments and create their life maps.

II. Standard: #3 Writing Expectation: 3:7.5 DOK Level: 1

III. Materials Needed:

a. A sheet of drawing paper or folder

b. Colored pencils

c. Pictures, magazines clippings

IV. Lesson development

a. Group greetings; read the quote for the day: “History never looks like history when you are living through it”. John W. Gardner

b. An excerpt from Barack Obama’s biography is projected; a student will read it aloud. Teacher explains what an autobiography is and what it represents. Students will identify key moments of Obama’s life that are being mentioned. Student will list key moments of a person’s life that should be part of an autobiography.

c. Explain the lesson’s objective, and introduce the strategy to be learned, (organizing ideas) and its uses.

Explain how to use a graphic organizer to put in order writing ideas (teacher shows her life map and explains what the symbols being used represent).

d. Students begin to work on their graphic organizers (life maps) by pasting or drawing the symbols to represent the key moments of their lives. (Day 1-2)

e. Students will evaluate their work using the Rubric for Life Map/ Personal Narrative.

f. Students will give their feedback on how useful the life map was to help them complete the task. They will also identify other uses for the strategy learned.

V. Assessment

Completed life map (50 points value).