Perspective+Lesson+Plan

Jenn Schellenberg ELD 308 February 28, 2012

**Perspective Lesson Plan**
 * Grade:** 4


 * Time:** 40 minutes

Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. Writing Standards K-5 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
 * Standards:** Speaking and Listening Standards K-5


 * Objective:** By the end of this lesson, students will be able to write essay from the perspective of the main character in //Jacob’s Rescue//.


 * Materials:**
 * //Jacob’s Rescue: A Holocaust Story// by Malka Drucker
 * Access to the white board
 * Dry erase markers


 * Lesson Sequence:**


 * **Lesson Introduction/Anticipatory Set (Engagement):**
 * “Boys and girls, now that we have finished reading //Jacob’s Rescue: A Holocaust Story// we are going to go back to our seats to begin writing a letter in the perspective of the main character, Jacob.”


 * **State Objective and Purpose:**
 * Before we begin writing our letter, were going to discuss what character perspective actually means. Having an understanding of character perspective will allow us to write our own letters in the perspective of Jacob, from //Jacob’s Rescue: A Holocaust Story//.”


 * **Teach and Model:**
 * Be standing in the front of the room by the white board with dry erase markers in hand.
 * Ask the students, “Can anyone tell me what perspective means?”
 * Wait for student responses and then write on the white board and tell the students, “Perspective is putting yourself in the shoes of someone else (in this case, the main character, Jacob) to determine how they would feel in different situations. For a moment, you as the writer are pretending to be someone else.”
 * “Today, we are going to be writing in the perspective of Jacob. We are going to write about how we would have felt if our dad came back after the Holocaust was over, after having left us to fend for ourselves for all of those years.”


 * **Guided Practice:**
 * “If I were to write a letter in the perspective of Jacob, I would write,
 * “Dear dad,
 * It was very hurtful and upsetting when you left me all alone to fend for myself during all of those years. A dad should be there for their child all the time. Through all of the good moments, as well as the bad. Not only was I hurt by your decision, I was worried for you and I always wondered if you were even still alive . ..
 * Love, Jacob”


 * **Independent Practice/ Assessment:**
 * “Now, you are going to take out your reading journals and write in the perspective of Jacob. You are going to talk about how it made you feel when your father came back, after having left you to fend for yourself during all of those difficult years. Remember, you are going to put yourself in Jacob’s shoes and pretend to be him while writing this.”


 * **Closure:**
 * “Can someone explain to me what it means to write in someone else’s perspective?”
 * Call on two to three students and ask, “What did you write about in your reading journal?”


 * **Assessment**
 * I will know the students are successful when I read their essays in the perspective of Jacob. Student’s who understand the concept of perspective should have well written essays.

** WHITEBOARD ** __ Perspective __ - putting yourself in the shoes of someone else (in this case, the main character, Jacob) to determine how they would feel in different situations. For a moment, you as the writer are pretending to be someone else.

__ Sample Letter: __ Dear Dad, It was very hurtful and upsetting when you left me all alone to fend for myself during all of those years. A dad should be there for their child all the time, through all of the good moments, as well as the bad. Not only was I hurt by your decision, I was worried for you and I always wondered if you were even still alive. . . Love, Jacob