Educator/Group Names: Kathleen Brinson

Grade level: 8-12th

Subject: ESOL
Date of lesson: 7-24-16
Length of lesson: 60 minutes
Lesson Topic: Community Needs
Overall Goal: Students will be able to learn about problems their local community faces.
Learner Background:
-Students who have been evaluated and placed at the Intermediate High to Advanced Low on the
OPI level of English proficiency.
-Students with various L1 (native languages) and communicate mainly with the common English
language.
-Students would be able to infer and gather context to be fairly competent in informal
conversation; however, in reading literature or participating in academic courses struggle with
complex phrasing and terminology.
-Students need exposure to various literacies to practice reading in English.
Curricular Standards:
Standard R4. The student will determine the major elements of a text written in English.
Standard R5. The student will recognize important details in texts written in English.
Standard R6. The student will understand the content and the methodology used in texts written
in English.
Student Learning Objective(s):
-Students will be able to identify problems or needs in the local community by conducting
research online.
-Students will be able to organize their research and thought using a shared Google Docs form.
-Students will be able to present information they found online in a blog post.
Assessment:
Part I: (Formative)
-Each group will have a shared Google Forms questionnaire so that they can be reporting and
recording their research findings with other group members and teacher.
-Teacher will conduct frequent check-ins.
Part II:

-Reporting their findings, students will blog about an idea for what problem they might like to
address. They will state what they learned, how it affects the community and why it interests
them personally.
Materials/Resources: Laptop cart (Chromebooks) and Google Forms and Google Docs.
https://docs.google.com/a/g.cofc.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuqPcXMpYY50PpF8a24TvZ8Hf9Pt
8CuzNM2yA_LaDm34T1Kg/viewform

The Lesson
Initiation:
Part I -I will begin the lesson by showing two videos giving students ideas to begin their research.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8OKeXL7F8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ukFrcEWfRKY)
-We will have a quick discussion after the video about what ideas they liked and would like to
research further.
Part II
-Ask: Do you know of any problems in your local community? Today we need to do some
research to find out what our community needs and how we might get involved. You will be
working with your groups to do research on your groups community. This is a time for you to
get some ideas for how we might serve.
Lesson Development:
Directions: During your research time today I expect you to work in your groups to fill out
your research form I sent to your email. Be sure to make a copy and share it with your group
members. You will have about 40 minutes to read and research online. After submitting the form
to me you will spend some time individually writing a blog post about what ideas you have or
what you learned in your research. You must post your blog to Edmodo before you leave for the
day.
-During the lesson I will check-in with groups to see how they are progressing. I will ask several
guiding questions like: How can you be sure that the information you are reading is true?
How does this website relate to your project? What keywords are you using? Do you know
who wrote this? Is the author unbiased?

As students work on their blog post I will encourage them to focus on answering some of these
questions: What did I learn do today? How will I use what Ive learned? Why does what I
researched today matter for the project? What did I find interesting during my research?

Closure:
Class 3-2-1 discussion: Before students leave and as they are working on posting their blog post I
will ask students to share 3 things they learned or found interesting 2 questions they have moving
forward and 1 obstacle they faced during the research process.