Lesson Plan form for  Paul Rombough/
Chateauguay Valley High School  (Tower University Grade 8 Site)
Date:        May 13th
Class:          English
Objective:    In groups, to design a schedule and set out a list of "tasks" for a group 'reading circle'.
Materials: 
Task examples overhead,        Types of  Test Questions overhead sheet,     Test question blank sheet.
 Checklist sheets,            Dailing Procedure overhead, 
Opening Motivational Set: 
Procedure:

1.  Show scrap books and demonstrate goal of preparing a collage of "responses" to the fiction they will read as a group.

2.  Show "Task examples" overhead and discuss notion of a "ten minute task" required for each "section of assigned reading.

3.  Show "Types of  Test Questions" overhead sheet, and discuss idea that day by day the students will build their own test.  (3 questions per reading circle day)
     Show the "Good Copy"  of Test question blank sheet

4.  Go over Dailing Procedures  and demonstrate how students will use the Checklist sheets

  1. assign reading goal
  2. assign job of test questions for that section
  3. upon arrival next day, check off how many students met the goal
  4. fill in a brief description of the ten minute task completed
  5. if incomplete assign a twenty minute task plus for next day and send report to teacher.


5.  Pass out books to corresponding group reading circles already chosen a previous day:
Students 

  • brainstorm some ideas for "ten minute tasks", 
  • then assign task of making the 3 questions,
  • then decide how many pages must be read by next Reading Circle Day (May 17th)
Followup/ Evaluation: 
Students will self evaluate daily and by making a test and self grading their answers.

 
 
 
 
 

Examples of Ten Minute Tasks
 




One From Each Type of Test Question

 
 
 
 
 
 

Good Copy of Test Questions
 
"Questions about Details in that scene/section"  2 marks each
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"General Questions Useful For Any Story"
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Daily Procedures:

1.  Move desks neatly into reading circle groups

2.  Check number of people who finished required reading.

3.  Present each completed "ten-minute task"

4.  Read and discuss each "test question"
          a)   for group approval
          b)   for group "understanding and answers"

5.  Layout Scrapbook.

6.  Assign next reading goal.

7.  Read Silently for 35 minutes
 
 
 
 


Reading Circle Check Sheet

For the Book ___________________________________________, in 25 days.
 
Student Name --à . . . . .
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Date

 .Pages to be read …
.Student "Ten Minute" Task Contribution

(one job must be 3 questions on the assigned reading)
.May 17
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.May 19
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.May 21st
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.May 26
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.May 28th
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.June 1
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.June 3
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.June 7
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.June 9
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.June 11 is 

Presentation

and test day

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