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Habits of Mind
th
9 Grade

Lesson Objective(s):
SWBAT evaluate what it means to be a good listener by analyzing video clips and practicing listening in a
conversation.

Engagement: Journaling activity and drawing activity
Exploration: Frayer model (10)
Explanation & Elaboration: Looks like, sounds like (20) practice
Evaluation: Exit routine (5)
Engagement: Describe how you will capture students’ interest.
Copy todays topic and answer:

What do you think it means to be a good listener? Can you think of anyone in your lives you would consider a “good
listener”? What makes them a good listener? Can you think of anyone in your lives you would consider a “bad listener”?
What makes them a “bad listener”?

Agenda Check-in

Activity
Students follow a set of instructions read out to them by the teacher without looking at anyone else’s work.

- draw a layer of grass on the bottom of your page
- Draw a small and a large hill in the picture
- Draw a bird in the sky
- Draw a tree on the right hand side of the page

The students will see a set of different results due to different interpretations.
From these, they realize that understanding can be different for different people.

Exploration: Describe what hands-on/minds-on activities students will be doing.
Students will complete Frayer model on the word empathy. TW ask for additional examples or non-examples.

Student swill watch 3 video clips. Students will record sounds like and looks like for what it means to be a “bad
listener”. Class will discuss what they observed after every video clip.

Explanation: Describe how students will make sense of their exploration.
1. Class will discuss why it is important to be a “good listener” and to have empathy for other people.

Elaboration: Describe how students will develop a more sophisticated understanding.
Students have 3 options. They may either make a comic strip showing people, they may record a skit or
they can write a story. All option must show people listening with understanding and empathy.

Evaluation: Describe how students will demonstrate that they have achieved the lesson objective(s).
Exit Routine & Updating Binders with Homework
1. Clean up all materials around you, Put trash in can, Put papers back in binders

Homework: Describe how students will reinforce past learning and/or prepare for future learning.
Write 3-5 sentences: Would you consider yourself a “good listener”? Why or why not?

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