Teaching Time
Teaching Time School Teacher: Kristel L. Díaz Grade: 8th Date: Monday 25th, 2015
Class Objective: Students use the past tense to write about what they did through the day in a journal on the online tool Issuu for a week individually.
Stage
Time
Description
Materials
Pre Homewo rk
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Students read document, sent by the teacher, based on how to write a journal and watched a video of the characteristics of a journal.
PDF Document and link to video (send
Warm Up
3 minute s
Pre Writing
8 minute s
Students create an Issuu ™ account. Students get a piece of paper with an action on it. They have to mimic them and the other students guess them.
them to the class email)
Pieces of Paper
Words: wrote, thought & had. Students get in 2 groups, the first group creates a mental map of what they learned with the document (pre homework) and the second group with the video (pre homework), then they will present it to the rest of the class and the teacher.
Poster Paper Markers Notebooks
8 minute s
Students write a brainstorm on what they did yesterday.
8 minute s
Students write an outline based on their previous brainstorm of how their journal will be done. Students write 3 main ideas and details of it.
8 minute s
Students write the draft of their journal. Students upload their first day (final product of the class) to their Issuu ™ account and share it with the rest of the class and the teacher.
Laptops, Tablets or Smart Phones
Post Writing
6 minute s
Students think about their day and give it a drastically change. Then they share it with 2 other students and finally to the class.
Laptops, Tablets or Smart Phones
Summar y
3 minute s
Students comment how they felt writing the things they do through their day. *Have they thought about it ever?
Homewo
1 minute
Students continue writing on their journal for the rest of the week, upload them to their blog and comment on
During Writing
Pencils Erasers Laptops, Tablets or Smart Phones
Internet
Their previous work “Take a Turn” popsicles Internet
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3 other blogs.
Journal worked in class Blogs
Materials
Poster Paper
Markers
“Take a Turn” popsicles
Computer
Internet
Step 1: Sign In
Step 2: Upload
Step 3: Select File
Step 3.1: Select File
Step 4: Describe it
Step 5: Publish it
Step 6: Embed Code
Step 6: Publish it on your blog
Step 7: Enjoy