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Introduction
This lesson is for teachers who had to go around and sterilize desks after students nodded off and gathered a small pool of drool under their chins from listening to boring oral book presentations. This lesson melds the standards with the desires of students to share something they found to be interesting.
Language Arts
Topic: Oral Book Presentations
Grade Level: 7
Student Lesson URL:
http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~drasmuss/student/
Standards
Addressed
Seventh Grade
Language Arts: Listening
and Speaking
1.6 Listening and Speaking Strategies
- Use speaking techniques, including voice modulation, inflection, tempo, enunciation, and eye contact, for effective presentations.
- Establish a context, standard plot line (having a beginning, conflict, rising action, climax, and denouement), and point of view.
- Describe complex major and minor characters and a definite setting.
- Students will be able to demonstrate proper speaking techniques.
- Students will be able to identify the parts of a standard plot line and point of view and restate this information using the activity of an oral book report.
- Students will be able to relate how the major character changed through the course of the plot line.
Introductory
Activities
Pretest given and scored.
The instructor will introduce
the concepts within plot line through the use of short
stories; some are provided below. Setting and character elements
will also be taught. Choose any short story that you may have already
available. The instructor will emphasize that the character changes
through the plot; this will be the focus for the conversation after the
oral book presentations.
Enabling
Activities
Culminating
Activities
Post-test given and scored,
results compared to pretest
Students will have posted
a billboard poster advertising the book they have chosen to read.
Included on the posters should be title, author, genre, interesting quote
from book, fictitious book review by a common newspaper, graphics that
grab, and student name. This should be posted in the classroom a
few days before the scheduled presentation day.
During the scheduled oral
presentation, students will report back the plot line, setting, and character
information from a book they have chosen, using proper speaking techniques.
But this is not what the emphasis for the presentation is; in addition,
the students' reports are the starters for the conversations that follow
about how the character changed through the plot line. Good conversation
starters are listed in the link below:
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/tips.html#general
Assessment
Insert your grading rubric for the
culminating activity or a link to your rubric or test document file.
Poster
Rubric
Results
After implementing your lesson
(sometime between January & March), insert a chart of your pre-test,
post-test, and culminating assessment data.
Web
Resources & Supplementary Materials
Introductory Activity
Short Stories:
Approved literature textbooks always have some
Oral Presentation Helps
http://www.auburn.edu/~burnsma/oralpres.html
http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/deliver/mode.html
http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/deliver/dynamics.html
Enabling Activity
List and link the web resources
for your learning activity(ies) here. Also link supplementary materials
such as PDF files and /or document files.
Culminating Activity
List and link the web resources
for this activity here. Also link supplementary materials such as PDF files
and /or document files.
Book Talk Help
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/tips.html#general
Don Rasmussen
Windsor Middle
School
9291 Old
Redwood Highway
Windsor, California
95492
Don Rasmussen:
rasmussen108@hotmail.com
Last Revised:
07/20/2000