1. Shelby Bollner Day Three 6/4/13
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The students in my class will be completing a week long unit plan about the five literary
elements which are character, plot, setting, style, and theme. It is a 3rd
grade class and is about
even in the ratio of boys to girls at 12 boys and 10 girls. Culture wise, the students are similar as
the school is not located in a very culturally diverse area though some have Hispanic roots. All of
the class speaks English, though for some it was not their first language, which makes the mode
of communication much easier. The class doesn’t vary in age, so each should be taught on the
same level, with the exception of a few that lag behind.
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Students will describe what the literary elements are with a focus on the literary element of
setting and why they are significant by having a review of the class literary element poster and a
review of plot by student read-alouds of a book pertaining to the literary element of plot. The
students will listen to a read-aloud of a book pertaining to setting and then will complete a post
reading activity involving Podcasts. The students will Students will be able to describe the
literary element of character with 100% accuracy by the end of the unit.
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There will be a couple different methods being used. First, the short review will be going on as
students sit at their desks and simply listen and can participate in review of the class element
poster. The second method will be the class listening to each studentread-aloud the book of their
choice to review plot. Activities following this will be students listening to a read-aloud of “Ox-
Cart Man” and then students will participate in a class discussion about the hints of setting from
the read-aloud. Lastly, the students will be asked to return to their seats where they will receive
the classroom set of computers and they will go to the class FaceBook page where they will
listen to the literary element Podcast that has been uploaded. They will complete the activity that
is described in the Podcast. The media used for this class will be a combination of audio, visual
(as in computers and multimedia), still images (the poster), text, and Elmo use because of the

2. class poster review, the read-aloud, the Podcast containing the class activity, and class computer
use of the class FaceBook page. The materials used will be the poster made by the teacher, the
podcast made by the teacher, the text purchased by the teacher, and the class computer set rented
out from the school’s media center.
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The audio and visual media used will be the review of the class literary element poster and
thePodcast with the individual student activity while the students are at their desks with each
student having a computer from the class computer set.So there will need to have the class
computer set already rented and tested and made sure it works with the internet connection and
that it will come up with FaceBook and the podcast smoothly and play without glitches. There
will also be will be a need to make sure that the class literary poster is in a visible place in the
classroom where all students can see it. For the read-aloud, I will need to make sure that the
Elmo is set up so that the book can be viewed from the front of the classroom so no students will
have to strain to see. I will have already practiced this read-aloud many times to assure that I will
go through it smoothly and that I already know what I want to say and mention about the literary
element of setting.
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The learner participation in this class will have to be great. The students will often be in class
discussions like when going over the literary element class poster when there will be opportunity
to discuss each element and have students ask questions and when students will be discussing
elements of setting for a post-reading activity after the read-aloud.The Podcast will be the least
interactive part of class but even so the students will have many opportunities to discuss what
they think about the activities, what they felt about the activities, if they liked them.
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For evaluating my lesson plan, I will take what the students liked best and what they didn’t enjoy
about the lesson. I will evaluate how much the students knew about the literary element of
character after the lesson and see how much they retained. I will consider what went smoothly
and what parts of the lesson need to be practiced and worked on to make sure there are less

3. interruptions and to make sure each activity flows from one to the other. I will also consider what
other technologies I implement into this lesson plan.