Megan Pulley

EDU 4010

Field Experience Lessons

Lesson One
Name: Megan Pulley
Grade Level & Subject: Sixth Grade English Language Arts
Brief explanation of how this lesson connects to assessment(s) or instruction from the previous day:
Students will build upon their knowledge of fact and opinion.

Lesson Objective(s)

Materials Teacher Needs

Students will identify facts and

opinions within a passage of text.
Students will demonstrate their
knowledge by writing their own facts
and opinions.
Textbook for reading passage: My Papa,
Mark Twain by Susy Clemens
Technology to play video about Mark Twain
and to project image

Materials Students Need

Image of scene
Textbook for reading passage: My Papa,
Mark Twain by Susy Clemens

Anticipating Student Needs

Literacy Journals
Students who finish early will be given
additional work.
Mrs. Pervis, the EC teacher, will come in the
classroom to see if support is needed during
independent work.

Instructional Sequence / Procedures: What activities will take place

during this lesson? (Note: Use bullet points to outline your ideas.)

Hook / Warm-up: How will you set the purpose for the lesson?
Quick review of difference between fact and opinion.

Have students give examples of factual statements and statements

of opinion.

Review key words that are clues for a statement being an opinion.

Number
of
Minutes

5 minutes

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Modeling: What will you show students how to do?

Play short biographical video of Mark Twain.

10 minutes

As we view the video, I will pause it whenever I hear a fact or

opinion and write it on the whiteboard, underlining the clue word if
its an opinion.

Guided Practice: What will you engage in together as a class or

30 minutes

small group?

As a class we will read the first half of My Papa, Mark Twain

in the textbook.
I will call on students who raise their hand with a desire to read
(in a random order), and have each read one paragraph of the
text.
After each section, I will ask questions regarding vocabulary,
language use, make connections, etc. I will also have students
tell me if there is a fact or opinion located in the paragraph that
was read.

Independent Practice: What will students do on their own?

On the projector I will show an image of a particular scene.

In their literacy journals, students must write at least 6 possible

facts and 6 possible opinions that relate to the image. They must
underline the clue words that are present in their opinions.

Summary / Closure: How will you wrap-up the lesson?

Allow students to share a couple of the facts and opinions they

came up with and provide feedback.

Answer any questions they may have about why a statement is a

fact not an opinion, or vice versa.

20 minutes

6 minutes

Formative Assessment: How will you know what students learned /

if they met the lesson standard(s) and objective(s)?

I will review students literacy journals and make anecdotal notes

about the facts and opinions that they wrote. Code for proficient,
needs some support, needs lesson retaught.

Lesson 1 Teaching Reflection:

I created this lesson after consulting with Mrs, Nowell about what they had been
learning in Language Arts. I didnt want to come in and teach a random topic, but wanted

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to teach what she would teach. She allowed me to come meet with her during her
planning periods and she told me the text that she was planning to read and discuss on the
dates I would be coming. She gave me a copy so that I could review it. For this actual
lesson, the part that I taught is the guided practice section. I developed the rest of the
lesson to provide a complete lesson plan and as part of the 10-day unit.
Before teaching I was really nervous because I am not used to being in a sixth
grade classroom. It ended up going smoothly, and the students were great. I told Mrs.
Nowell to please chime in if there was a point she wanted to make that I wasnt covering.
She did speak up one time, but then I carried her point further with the class. I can say I
had a good experience.

Lesson Two
Name: Megan Pulley
Grade Level & Subject: Sixth Grade English Language Arts
Brief explanation of how this lesson connects to assessment(s) or instruction from the previous day: We
will continue reading the second half of My Papa, Mark Twain by Susy Clemens, and will continue to
deepen understanding of fact and opinion.

Lesson Objective(s)

Materials Teacher Needs

Students will read a variety of

statements and determine whether
each of them is a fact or an opinion.
Students will write 3 facts about a
specific topic.
Students will write opinions about
facts.
Textbook for reading passage: My Papa,
Mark Twain by Susy Clemens
Fact and Opinion Jeopardy (technology
needed)

Materials Students Need

Textbook for reading passage: My Papa,

Mark Twain by Susy Clemens
Literacy Journals

Anticipating Student Needs

Students who finish early will be given

additional work.
Mrs. Pervis, the EC teacher, will come in the

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classroom to see if support is needed during

independent work.
Instructional Sequence / Procedures: What activities will take place
during this lesson? (Note: Use bullet points to outline your ideas.)

Hook / Warm-up: How will you set the purpose for the lesson?
Begin by reviewing what was read yesterday of the biography of
Mark Twain.

5 minutes

Ask students what facts and opinions they remember being written
about him?

Modeling: What will you show students how to do?

At the beginning of the year, each student in this class was
randomly assigned a number. These numbers are used occasionally
for random drawings.

Number
of
Minutes

5 minutes

I will draw a number from the basket to select one student. I will
model writing three facts about that student and an opinion about
each fact.

Guided Practice: What will you engage in together as a class or

30 minutes

small group?

We will read the final half of the biography, My Papa, Mark

Twain, by Susy Clemens.
As we always do when reading, students will be called upon to read
a paragraph as they raise their hands to do so.
I will stop after every section to discuss any important vocabulary,
figurative language, etc.
Students are to be on the lookout for facts and opinions. I will
teach students the American Sign Language signs for the letter F
and O. Today while we are reading, they are to identify facts and
opinions as soon as they read them by holding up the appropriate
ASL sign: F for fact or O for opinion.

Independent Practice: What will students do on their own?

In their literacy journals, students will write three facts about a

specific person, place, or thing. They will then write an opinion
about each of the facts.

At the top of the page they are to write the name of the person,
place, or thing, as well as draw a picture of it.

20

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Summary / Closure: How will you wrap-up the lesson?

15

For a closing activity, I will split the class into two teams and we
will play Fact and Opinion Jeopardy.

Formative Assessment: How will you know what students learned /

if they met the lesson standard(s) and objective(s)?

I will review students literacy journals and make anecdotal notes

about the facts and opinions that they wrote. Code for proficient,
needs some support, needs lesson retaught.

Lesson Two Reflection:

For this lesson, it was again the guided practice section that I actually taught.
Although it was pretty much the same thing as the prior lesson in term of what I was
doing, it was still a completely different experience with different concepts and points to
bring out in the second half of the reading passage. Teaching this lesson and the lesson
prior really gave me a feeling of being a real teacher. Yes, it was nerve-wracking to be
in a sixth grade class when Im used to being in third grade or lower, but I enjoyed it
much more than I had anticipated. It made me feel good when Mrs. Nowell told me that I
did a great job. I definitely am appreciative of the type of experience I received by
observing and working with her.