2. Background Information
● Global history class of 33 ELL students (Transitional Bilingual
Program)
○ 28 Spanish speakers and 5 Arabic speakers
○ 15 SIFE and 7 Special Education students
○ English proficiency - beginner to intermediate
○ Co-taught class
3. ● Introduction to PREWRITING
with BrainPOP movie with
subtitles.
● Bilingual transcript provided.
4. ● Oral Discussion and
Brainstorming with
clusters.
● Semantic maps were
on worksheets and on
whiteboard
● Vocabulary was
displayed in English
and Spanish.
Prewriting
5. ● Round robin reading
in groups of 4.
● Groups arranged by
language preference.
● All students have
both versions.
Reading
6. ● Students fill out T-chart as they read and
annotate.
● Napoleon as Enlightenment leader vs.
Napoleon as Monarch.
● Students share out their findings to
class.
● Homework has sentence starter to make
inference from reading.
More Prewriting
7. ● Exit Ticket: Free write
● Give opinion based on
what they have
learned about
Napoleon so far.
Freewrite
8. ● Used yesterday’s work to start writing
scaffolded essay.
Next Day Follow up: Drafting
● Connect pre-writing with drafting.
9. Resources
Peregoy, S. F. & Boyle, O. F. (2013). Reading, Writing, & Learning in ESL: A
Resource Book for K-12 Teachers, 6th Edition. New York: Pearson Education.
S. (2013, April 13). Was Napoleon Bonaparte a Revolutionary or a Tyrant?
Retrieved October 23, 2016, from https://owlcation.com/humanities/Napoleon-
Bonaparte-Revolutionary-or-Tyrant
Thousand, J.S., Villa, R.A., & Nevin, A.I. (2015). Differentiating instruction:
Collaborative planning and teaching for universally designed learning (2nd
ed.)Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
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