This document outlines a lesson plan for a 3rd grade class that focuses on literary elements. The lesson plan includes a review of literary elements with a focus on theme, a read aloud of a book about theme, and a blogging activity where students describe their understanding of all five literary elements. The lesson plan utilizes various media like a poster, read aloud, computers, and blogging. It aims to have students describe theme with 100% accuracy and involve interactive discussion and participation from students. The teacher will evaluate the lesson by gauging student enjoyment and understanding, and considering ways to improve flow between activities and implementation of additional technologies.

1. Shelby Bollner Day Five 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
theme and why they are significant by having a review of the class literary element poster, by
listening to a read-aloud of a book pertaining to theme and then will complete a post reading
activity involving the students using the classroom set of computers for each one creating a blog
where they talk about all their accumulated knowledge of the five literary elements.The students
will be able to describe the literary element of theme 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. Activities following this will be students listening to a read-aloud of “Knuffle Bunny: A
Cautionary Tale” and then students will participate in a class discussion about different aspects
of theme 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 FaceBook where there is a
link to my blog and they will read the activity they must do. So they will go to blogger.com
where they will each create a bloggerfor them to develop and discuss their knowledge further
about the literary elements. They will complete the activity that is described inmy blog. The
media used for this class will be a combination of audio, visual (as in computers and

2. multimedia), still images (the poster), text, and Elmo use because of the class poster review, the
read-aloud, FaceBook and Blogger containing the class activity, and class computer use for
completing the Blogger activity. The materials used will be the poster made by the teacher, the
blog 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
FaceBook and Blogger use with the individual and group 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 the blog link on the class FaceBook page and
the Blogger page. I will make sure that the voki and QRwork correctly and smoothly on my page
and that they don’t have any 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 and also group activities 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 theme for a post-reading activity after the read-aloud.
The Blogger assignment will also be interactive because the students will have to participate
while posting/commenting on each other blogs. 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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3. 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.