Lesson Plan:Christmas Carol Project

Lesson Title: Christmas Carol Project
Topic/Focus Area: A Christmas Carol

Lesson Overview
Content Standards
Objectives
Activities

Resources
File Attachments
Assessment
Additional Comments

Subject(s): Language Arts/Reading, ELD

Grade Level(s): 7

Name: Erin Gromme
Taught: MultipleSubject
Phone:
E-mail: egromme@hotmail.com

School: Brawley Elementary

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Lesson Overview

Standards

Subject : English-Language Arts
Grade : Seventh
Strand : Listening and Speaking
Substrand 2.0 : Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

Students deliver well-organized formal presentations employing traditional rhetorical strategies (e.g., narration, exposition, persuasion, description). Student speaking demon-strates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.

Standard:

2.1c

Deliver narrative presentations that use a range of appropriate strategies, including dialogue, suspense, and naming ofspecific narrative action (e.g., movement, gestures, expressions).

Standard:

2.3b

Deliver research presentations that convey clear and accurate perspectives on the subject.

Standard:

2.3d

Deliver research presentations that cite reference sources appropriately.

Student Learning Objectives

This lesson is an ending to a unit that revolves around A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Students have read the novel, explored the plot, characters, and main focus of the novel. In addition, students have been given technology lessons on Power Point. With that said, my objective solely for this lesson of the unit is...
Students will create a final researched presentation project comparing and contrasting holiday celebrations from period surrounding "A Christmas Carol" and the 21st century via Power Point, presentation board, etc. Students will apply and contrast the difference between the holiday celebration in ACC with that of modern day. (Note to self: Do I want to focus on holiday celebrations or branch out into other culture issues?)

Activities

Note to self--suttor's page 11/13 mod 4
A. Introductory Activity
Teacher will present some the differences between 1840s and the 21st century through a multimedia presentation (either power point or web based design). Students will see differences in housing, clothing, music, Christmas, holiday, etc.
B. Enabling Activity
Students will be exposed to different types of areas to research through the anticipatory set.

Either in small groups or individual, the class will begin brainstorming all the different areas to research for this project. Students will be asked to complete project intent paper, which will list group members, topic selection for research, and method of presentation. See attachment file under Project Intent Page
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Using the internet web page, students will research various web sites. Also, students will research at the local library as well as teacher provided resources for this topic.
2. Students will compile examples that demonstrate the comparison and contrast of their selected topic (s). Students will be expected to compare at least three areas.
Culminating Activity
1. Students will create a presentation depicting the similarities and differences between holiday traditions from A chirstmas Carol and one modern day holiday tradition.

Resources

Content Resources (books, articles, etc.)
1. The novel, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
2. The play version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Hardware/Software Resources (computers, CD-ROMs, TV, VCR, etc.)
1. The video "A Christmas Carol" (1941 version)
2. The video "Scrooged"

1. Encarta Program

File Attachments

Project Intent Page
— project_intent.xls (13.5 KB)

Assessment

Students will be graded by two criteria:
1. A student rubric
2. A teacher rubric

In regards to the teacher rubric, students will be graded on the following: (rough)
1. source location
2. source citation
3. Presentation technique
4.

Additional Comments