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LESSON ONE: GETTING STARTED ON GRAMMAR
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to... self-assess your ability to identify parts of speech and sentence structures
Let's Get Started!
Optional: Everything you wanted to know about Parts of Speech: The Grammar Rock Series ... and others!
Next, please click, make a copy, and complete the following document: Pre-Assessment for Grammatical Structures. Do Part 1 and stop. We'll grade them together when everyone is done.
Click here for a mini-lesson on the four types of sentence structures. Then we'll do Part 2 of the Pre-Assessment for Grammatical Structures.
For the remainder of class, let's play some GRAMMAR GAMES!
Go to this website: Guide to Grammar & Writing. Go to "Ask Grammar, Quizzes, Search Engines." Select from "170+ Interactive Quizzes." Go through as many activities as time allows.
Homework: Continue to play on the Guide to Grammar & Writing website.
LESSON TWO: SETTING GRAMMAR GOALS
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to... survey a series of grammatical expectations and determine two areas on which you'd like to focus.
Let's Get Started! Please open up and make a copy of this form, which records areas in which you do really well, okay, and need improvement on the Grammar Pre-Assessment. Now return to your scores for the Pre-Assessment, Section 1 and Section 2, from our last class. Fill in your scores.
Next, try this quiz to see how much you're remembering about grammar and standard English conventions. It's a series of Error Correction activities.
Then, try these grammar exercises in agreement--- see how you do.
Continue to play on the Guide to Grammar & Writing website between activities. Or try some Grammar Exercises from the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University.
Look over the scores you received on all the exercises above. What are the areas on which you'd like to improve? Write down three goals on this collaborative document, which will be a way for us to determine what's important for us to learn as individuals.
LESSON THREE: A GRAMMAR GOALS INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTObjective: By the end of class, you will be able to... investigate sources to help you improve your grammar through two individualized grammar goals.
Mini-Lesson:
Homework Check: Finish Steps One and Two...
LESSON FOUR: ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING OTHERS
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to... design three interactive, multimodal exercises to use to teach grammar to others.
Let's Get Started! Please open up your personal Google site to your Grammar Goals project page.
Mini-Lesson: Here's the Project Description: Teaching Grammar to Others
Rubric: Click here to see the rubric
Homework: Have step three finished... In our next class, we will complete Step Four then move into Focus Groups. You'll get feedback from your peers about ways to improve your overall Grammar Goals page.
LESSON FIVE: OUR FINAL DAY OF GRAMMAR GOALS PROJECT CONSTRUCTION
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to... conclude your Grammar Goals project with a Knowledge Check and to engage in Focus Group self- and peer-check procedures
Let's Get Started! Please pull up your personal Google website and page for Teaching Grammar Goals to Others.
Today, we'll start class by working on Step Four: a Knowledge Check. Let's click here for the Project Description: Teaching Grammar to Others and here for the Project Rubric. What is the objective of the Knowledge Check?
To keenly and enthusiastically demonstrate your and your peers' knowledge of the targeted grammar device.
Take some time now to develop an excellent Knowledge Check that really will capture your peers' knowledge and understanding. Remember: you need to create a master answer to this Knowledge Check, too.
In the second section of our class today, we'll be engaging in Focus Groups. They'll give you an opportunity to get and give feedback on the Teaching Grammar Goals to Others project.
Homework: Revise your Teaching Grammar Goals to Other project. Be ready to present in a small group during our next class.
LESSON SIX: TEACHING OUR GRAMMAR GOALS TO OTHERS--- SMALL GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to... demonstrate your knowledge of your mastery of Grammar Goals by teaching your grammar device to a small group of students
Let's Get Started! Overview of our Two-Day Presentation Schedule
Day #1: One group will present to a small group of students for about 20 minutes. (Students may not present to their own group members.) Then we'll switch, and another group will present to a small group of students for about 20 minutes.
Day #2: A third group will present to a small group of students for about 20 minutes. Then we'll switch, and our final group will present to a small group of students for about 20 minutes.
Homework: Follow the directions on this Reading Protocol and do two prompts as you read "Thomas Morton: Manners and Customs of the (New England) Indians, 1637”.
LESSON SEVEN: GRAMMAR DEVICE POST-ASSESSMENT
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to... prove you have mastered both of your grammar goals.
Let's Get Started! Please take out a pen and put everything else away. You'll be taking a Grammar Devices post-assessment by hand.
Grammar Goals Post-Project Assessment
B Period: Homework: Follow the directions on this Reading Protocol and do two prompts as you read "Thomas Morton: Manners and Customs of the (New England) Indians, 1637”.
A little extra to conclude our Grammar Unit:
Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation.
BY Eric K. Auld
1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.
3. A question mark walks into a bar?
4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar.
5. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink.
6. The bar was walked into by the passive voice.
7. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave. S
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