Organizing Reflections

Entering Activity: Students will write down a prediction of what a piece titled “Taking the Trip” will be about.
Anticipatory Set: Students will write down today’s agenda and go over what we will be doing today.
Teaching and Learning: Students and I will read “Taking the Trip.” We will discuss what the controlling idea of this reflective essay is.
Guided Practice: I will have students make a Write to the Point Organizer. We will go over the introduction and the 1st paragraph and dissect them together.
Independent Practice: Students will then dissect the rest of the essay. They will fill in the information on the graphic organizer.
Teaching and Learning: We will discuss student answers and go over correct answers.
Closure: I will assign tonight’s homework – for students to make their own Write to the Point Organizer for their reflective piece.

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Comment by Amanda Addison on March 19, 2009 at 1:12pm: This went pretty well, overall. With my two lower-performing classes, we went over the whole organizer together. My two advanced classes did most of it by themselves. I know that my lower-performing students have trouble dissecting a piece into it's parts, so I projected the organizer from the computer and we worked on it together. They do pretty well when they can discuss it as a class. My last group of the day worked on most of the organizer by themselves, but I gave them a little more guidance than my first advanced class. They usually require a little more instruction.