Introduction to Lesson

Lesson Plan

Subject: Geometry

Grade Level: 10th grade

ELLs’ Levels: For my lesson plan I selected Xiaodu, a 10th grade student who moved from China three months ago. She has a WIDA speaking level of 2.0 which means that she can describe persons, places, events, or objects, ask WH- questions to clarify meaning, give features of content-based material (e.g., time periods), and characterize issues, situations, regions shown in illustrations. Her listening score is 2.5 which means she can match or classify oral descriptions to real-life experiences or visually represented, content-related examples, sort oral language statements according to time frames, sequence visuals according to oral directions, and begin to evaluate information in social and academic conversations. Her two highest scores were reading and writing with both at 3.5. With reading Xiaodu can, apply multiple meanings of words/phrases to social and academic contexts, identify topic sentences or main ideas and details in paragraphs, answer questions about explicit information in texts, differentiate between fact and opinion in text, and order paragraphs or sequence information within paragraphs. And finally, when writing she can complete reports from templates, compose short narrative and expository pieces, outline ideas and details using graphic organizers, and compare and reflect on performance against criteria.

Topic: Rotations and reflections of Geometric Figures

Overall Focus for the Two-Day Lesson Plan: The overall focus of my lesson is to introduce the rotation of shapes, go over important vocabulary, and use examples and group activities for the students to work through problems on their own.

Florida Standards (CPALMS):

  1. MAFS.912.G-CO.1.3 : Given a rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, or regular polygon, describe the rotations and reflections that carry it onto itself.
  2. MAFS.912.G-CO.1.4 : Develop definitions of rotations, reflections, and translations.
  3. MAFS.912.G-CO.1.5 : Given a geometric figure and a rotation, reflection, or translation, draw the transformed figure using, e.g., graph paper, tracing paper, or geometry software.

Literacy Strategies:

  1. Possible Sentences (Before)
  2. Structured Notetaking (During)
  3. Exit Slips (After)
  4. Frayer Model (Before)
  5. Jigsaw (During)

Textual Materials (provide annotation and brief explanation of use):

Larson, R. (2007). 4.8 Perform Congruence Transformations. In Geometry(pp. 272-279). Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell. doi: https://www.stcs.org/view/11847.pdf

Summary and use: This textbook chapter introduces students to the ideas and concepts behind transformations in geometry. The chapter includes vocabulary, the definitions, examples, and explanations of what transformations are, the types, and how to perform them. I plan on using this chapter on day 1, this way the students will be introduced to geometric transformations and have the necessary information to continue the lesson on day 2. I will start with vocabulary listed in the chapter and will have the students take notes based on the information while reading.

Translations intro. (n.d.). Retrieved August 5, 2019, from https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry-home/transformations/rigid-transformations-intro/a/intro-to-translations

Rotations intro. (n.d.). Retrieved August 5, 2019, from https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry-home/transformations/rigid-transformations-intro/a/intro-to-rotations

Reflecting shapes. (n.d.). Retrieved August 5, 2019, from https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-transformations-congruence/basic-geo-reflections/a/reflecting-shapes

Summary and Use: Each article discusses one of the following: Translations, Rotations, or Reflections. They all have text explaining each one of the transformations and examples. These articles will be used for the Jigsaw activity, as the experts will use these to be able to teach others. Expert groups will each have one of the above articles and will work on reading and completing the practice problems.

Additional Material (listed):

Possible Sentences worksheet

Structured Notes worksheet

Pencils

Copies of the chapter for each student

Notecards

Students’ notebooks

Access to a computer with internet

Frayer Model Worksheet