This document provides a lesson plan for a 3rd grade class that will focus on literary elements over the course of a week. The class has 12 boys and 10 girls of similar cultural backgrounds. The lesson plan describes introducing the literary element of character through storytelling videos, discussing a class poster on literary elements, reading the book "Olivia" and having a post-reading activity where students describe their own character. Students will then tweet what they learned about character for homework. The plan details the methods, media, materials and technologies used, as well as learner participation and evaluation of the lesson.

1. Shelby Bollner Day One 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
character and why they are significant by having a short lecture spoken to themthrough
storytelling videos on the class YouTube channel that describe each literary element and why
they are important. I will go over a class literary element poster with the students and then the
students will be listening to a read-aloud pertaining to character, using the book “Olivia” and the
students will have a post reading activity.Students will have a homework assignment where they
have to go home and tweet one thing they learned about the literary element of character to the
class account @MissBollners3rdgradeclass. 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 lecture will be used as the
students sit at their desks and simply listen to the teacher recorded storytelling video on the class
YouTube channel so that they will learn about the five literary elements, what they are, and why
they are important. The second method will be the teacher going over with the class the literary
elements class poster about what each element is and why each picture pertains to the element it
is indicating. Activities following this will be students listening to a read-aloud of the book
“Olivia” and then will do a post-reading activity where they write/draw on a piece of paper what

2. makes up their character. They will then present them to the class.The media used for this class
lesson and homework assignment will be a combination of audio, visual (as in computers and
multimedia), still images (the poster), text, Elmo use, and show and tell because of the YouTube
story-telling video, the class poster, the read-aloud, the post-reading activity, and the homework
twitter assignment. The materials used will be the videos made by the teacher, the poster (also
made by the teacher), and the text which was purchased by the teacher.
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The audio and visual media used will be the story-telling video about the five literary elements
being played from a computerto the students at their desks. Then the students will listen and
participate in a class discussion about the class literary poster. So there will need to be an already
correctly set up the YouTube channel and video. I must make surethe story-telling video has
been tested and made sure it works with the internet connection without glitches and that it runs
smoothly. I will also have the poster already to play and make sure that is has been placed in a
visible area where it is properly displayed. There will also be text media and materials through
the read-aloud of Olivia. I will make sure I have the Elmo set up so that the book can be placed
on it to be seen from the front of the class so no students have to strain to see. I will have
practiced the 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 character. The paper
for the post-reading activity will be supplied by the teacher and the students will have an allotted
time to finish their post-reading activity and present it to class. Lastly, the students will need to
tweet one thing they learned from today’s class to the Twitter account @MissBollners3rdgrade
class. I will assure that each student has their twitter account that has been previously made for
other homework assignments before this unit.
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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 we will be discussing
each element and talking amongst all the students. Then there will be learning participation when
the students have to show and tell about their character post-reading activity they completed
about themselves, and even with the homework assignment the students have to participate
actively with Twitter. 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
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.