All about me

Correlation to State Content Standards

CSTP 2.1: Creating and maintaining effective environment for student learning.

CSTP 2.2: Establishing a climate that promotes fairness and respect.

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

Students will be able to:

1. Explain who they are and their future goals.

2. introduce themselves to four new peers in the classroom.

Common Core Literacy Standard

WHST 9: Draw evidence from information texts to support analysis reflection, and research.

Anticipatory Set (3 min.)

SDAIE: SENTENCE STEM: Students will complete the following sentence stem: "If I could change one thing about Curtis Middle School, it would be..."

Direct Instruction (10 min.)

SDAIE: Discussion: All about Me: Teacher will introduce the assignment "All About Me" to the students and why we are doing it.

Guided Practice (10 min.)

SDAIE: Model: Teacher will model how to set up their paper and how to label their headings. Teacher will go over the directions about the assignment. Students will be asked to write a mini biography about themselves and draw a picture with description about Their Past, The Present, The Future (10 years), by the end of 8th grade."

Independent Practice (25 min.)

SDAIE: QW/TPS/Diads: All About Me: Students will be asked to write a mini biography about themselves and draw a picture with description about Their Past, The Present, The Future (10 years), by the end of 8th grade." Once they are done with that, students will get up and introduce themselves to four other students and write down what they learned about their classmates. Then they will draw a picture/symbol that best represents what they all share in common.

Homework.

N/A

Closure (3 min.)

1. Clean up.

2. Dismiss Class.

Lesson Modifications for GATE, RSP, and EL Students

EL: Projector (visuals), questioning, chunking, cognitive words, repetition, translation in Spanish.

RSP: Projector (visuals), questioning, modified assignments, check for understandings.

GATE: Require answers that will demonstrate depth and complexity of fertilization.