My neighborhood, part II

Title: My Neighborhood (continued)

Author: M. Hill

Week: 3

Unit/Lesson Plan #: Identity

Unit theme: Identity

Textbook references: House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Learning objectives:

Key Questions, Concepts, or Themes:

Stage 1:

WARM-UP: Add at least 10 new details to your "Five Senses" Neighborhood brainstorm

Stage 2:

Re-read "The House on Mango Street" - focusing on section describing the house, ask students to recall descriptive language used (discussed yesterday). Give it a name (personification). Students create their own personification using their neighborhood brainstorm (ie, trees are dancing, door waits for me, taxis race to the finish at the lights, etc.). Share.

Think/Write: if you could live anywhere, where would it be and why? (Share with neighbor)

Read "A House of My Own." Talk about descriptive language - simile and metaphor. Practice creating similes and metaphors for own neighborhood and where you live.

Stage 3:

Review parts of a descriptive paragraph (model with our CSS neighborhood - ie, school floor) - Topic Sentence, Body, Closing sentence

Homework: (attach/link digital resources):

Draft a descriptive paragraph about your neighborhood. Incorporate at least two examples of the literary devices we discussed in class (personification, simile, metaphor). Provide scaffold paragraph set-ups if needed.

Assessments: (attach/link copies)

__ Group assessment

__ Observation of process/student work

__ Self-assessment by student

_X_ Teacher generated assignment

_X_ Written project

__ Test/Quiz

__ Other: ____________________________________