Year 8 English – Placement 1 Ms van Gerven

YEAR 8 ENGLISH – PROCEDURAL WRITING

Tuesday L4 - What is Procedural WritingPhase Time ActivityStarter 10 Getting to know the class and explaining expectationsIntroduction 15 Looking at different types of procedural/instructional writing on the

PowerPoint, including; Recipes Rules for games Makeup tutorials Directions Plane safety instructions

Examples:Masterchef hummus recipehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS5T4dCCclQ

Development 20 DeBono’s Hat Worksheet. In groups of 3-4, students will use the hats to identity key things to think about when creating instructions for:

How to play cricket How to download music How to use Snapchat

Discuss results as a class

Plenary 5 Wrap up the class

Year 8 English – Placement 1 Ms van Gerven

Wednesday Lesson 5 - Parts of a ProcedurePhase Time ActivityStarter 5 Formalities

Introduction 20 Students will need their books for this lesson. First off we will recap what we learnt yesterday. I will ask what the definition of a procedure is. They will have to write this down. Then I will give out the handout

Handout on what makes a good procedure: Framework Purpose Materials Procedural steps Conclusion Wording – verbs

Using two of the examples from the activity yesterday, I will go through these headings and break down how to make these effective procedures using this framework.

Development 20 How to Make a Chocolate Cake activity. Students will get the recipe in nonlinear, cut up strips. In pairs they will have to put the recipe in thecorrect order. We will then discuss what everyone had for answers.

This time using picture only instructions, I will give the students Ikea Instructions for the ‘Billy’. They will have to work out what order they go in.

Plenary 5 Wrap up class

Year 8 English – Placement 1 Ms van Gerven

Thursday Lesson 1 and 2 – Technical language and audiencePhase Time ActivityStarter 5 Formalities - roll

Introduction 20 Students will need their textbooks for this lesson. We will discuss firstly what we learnt last lesson. Then I will discuss the plan for this lesson.

They will be copying the main points from the Powerpoint on Language Features of Procedural Texts.

Development 50 Part 1 of the lesson:As a class, we will analyse

How to Play AFLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMZYZcoAcU0

How to apply false eyelasheshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D72ku_SGZs

They will respond using the worksheet

Part 2:Reimagining these procedures for different audiences. I will get students to individually write a short procedure for these audiences:

An old man who lives in Europe A poor woman who has never worn makeup before

Plenary 10 Wrapping up the lesson

Year 8 English – Placement 1 Ms van Gerven

Friday L5 – Introduce the assignmentPhase Time ActivityStarter 5 Formalities

Introduction 15 Explain assignment details and give out task sheets

Hand out Planning a Procedure worksheet and go through it with the class

Development 25 Assign days of presentation for students and get them to start thinking of ideas.

Presentations commence Wednesday June 22nd and finish Friday June 24th. 4 on the Wednesday, 9 in the Thursday double and 5 on the Friday.

Help students generate ideas about what they can “teach” the class through their presentation.`

Plenary 5 Get students to work on assignment for homework

Year 8 English – Placement 1 Ms van Gerven

Teaching week 2 Tuesday L4 – Verbs and word choice

Phase Time Activity

Starter 5 Formalities

Introduction 10 Ask students about what they remember about word choice. If needed, go through technical language PowerPoint again, with particular focus on verbs and adjectives.

Development 25 I will play Verb/Adverb/Adjective Bingo with the class. I will read out 2 recipes. They can call bingo when they have found either 10 verbs, 5 adjectives or 1 adverb. They will also have to provide examples.

Prizes will be given.

Plenary 5 Make sure students keep worksheets as they can use this list to help them with their assignments

Year 8 English – Placement 1 Ms van Gerven

Wednesday L5 – Oral Presentation skills

Phase Time Activity

Starter 5 Give out prizes for yesterday and do roll

Introduction 20 Explain oral presentation skills using PowerPoint of the oral presentation checklist. They will need their exercise books.

Then watch How To Sound Smart in Your TEDx Talk. Discuss as a class if he ticks off anything from our checklist.

Development 20 Play the How to Make Toast video. This will get them to understand why they are doing this visually and how important it is to map out things.

If there is spare time, I will go through the marking criteria.

Plenary 5 Packing up

Year 8 English – Placement 1 Ms van Gerven

Thursday L1 and L2 – PlanningPhase Time ActivityStarter 5 Formalities

Introduction 20 Working on assignments

Development 20 Working on assignments

Plenary 5 Get students to work on their assignments for homework

Friday L5 – Working on assignmentsPhase Time ActivityStarter 10 Formalities

Introduction 15 I will give the students an abridged version of my marking criteria for the assignment and will explain that they will all be assessing each other but I will be giving the final grade.

Development 15 Working on assignments

Plenary 10 Work on assignments for homework and packing up

Week 3 – Oral Presentations

Tuesday L4 - Going through peer marking and working on presentationsPhase Time ActivityStarter 10 Formalities

Introduction 10 Introduce peer marking. Give them the handout.

Development 25 As a class we will “mark” some Youtube clips given what we have learnt about oral presentation skills. This will prepare them for tomorrow.

Show them: How to Make an Underwater Volcano and How to Do the Robot

Plenary 5 Packing up

The next 3 lessons (including a double) will be spent watching the presentations.

Year 8 English – Placement 1 Ms van Gerven

Week 4

Tuesday L5/6 – Watching Star Wars: Force AwakensPhase Time ActivityStarter 10 Roll

Introduction 90 Watching the film

DevelopmentPlenary 5 Packing up

Thursday L5 – Star Wars FilmPhase Time ActivityStarter 5 Formalities

Introduction 20 Finishing film

Development 20Plenary 5 Packing up

Friday L3 – Star Wars analysisPhase Time ActivityStarter 5 Formalities

Introduction 15 Archetypes powerpoint

Development 15 Group activityPlenary 5 Packing up