Backwards Design Online Lesson PlanLesson plan designer: Khaleel Abusal & Mohammad Almalki

Date: 04/26/2017 Theme/Topic: Culture Shock

Age Range of Learners: 15 Targeted Performance Level:

Reading Intermediate

Number of minutes

Up to the learners

Definition and Guiding Question

LESSON LEARNING EPISODE

A lesson is defined as a single learning experience typically lasting no more than sixty to ninety minutes. Learning experiences occur both in the classroom and/or in other settings. Longer blocks of time will involve several learning episodes and lesson plans.

A learning episode is defined as a learning experience that addresses a specific aspect of a learning target or can-do statement. Learning episodes typically provide a limited amount of input with time allowed for guided and independent practice. The amount of time allotted for a learning episode is approximately equivalent to the age of the learner and will rarely be more than twenty minutes.

Questions to Consider Before and During Lesson Planning

Do the activities in the lesson…

give students a reason for needing to/wanting to pay attention and be on task? provide sufficient opportunities for understanding new words before expecting production? provide multiple, varied opportunities for students to hear new words/expressions used in highly visualized contexts that make meaning transparent? provide students with an authentic purpose for using words and phrases? engage all students (as opposed to just one or two students at a time)? vary in the level of intensity and the amount of physical movement required? make the learner, not the teacher, the active participant? build toward allowing students to demonstrate in meaningful and unrehearsed ways that they are able to use what they know? make the best use of instructional time to maximize student learning?

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take an appropriate amount of time considering the age of the learner?

STAGE 1: What will learners be able to do with what they know by the end of this lesson?

DOWhat are the learning targets/can-do statements for this lesson?

KNOWWhat vocabulary, grammatical structures, language chunks, cultural knowledge,

and content/information do learners need to accomplish the lesson can-do?

A. Students will be able to identify the relevant vocabulary.

B. Students will be able to give examples of different cultures.

C. Students will be able to relate different practices to different cultures.

D. Students will be able to identify the articles in the text.

E. Students will be able to select the correct article for the correct context.

A. Vocabulary 1. Nouns: which are used in cultural contexts (accent, background, advice, international, student union, religion, dish, understanding)

2. Verbs: miss, arrive, realize, tip, settle

3.Adjectives: foreign, homesick, confused, lonely, favorite

B-Grammar: The Articles

Definite: the

Indefinite: a/an

Zero Article Ø

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STAGE 2: How will learners demonstrate what they can do with what they know by the end of the lesson?

What will learners do (learning tasks/activities/formative assessments) to demonstrate they can meet the lesson can-do?

A. Students will use flash cards application to study the words.

B. Students will do the cross words.

C. Students will list the names of different cultures with practices.

D. Students will read the text “culture shock”.

E. Students will answer questions based on the text.

G. Students will fill in the blanks with the correct article.

** Please refer to pages 7-11 for detailed instructions.

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STAGE 3: What will prepare learners to demonstrate what they can do with what they know?

How will you facilitate the learning? What activities will be used to ensure learners accomplish the lesson can-do?

What will the teacher be doing? What will the students be doing?

Opening Activity 1. Student have been informed in the class that the this next lesson will be all online. A google docs link (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tOBYsFzKBfqNxm5t5Bip1ApVfLDSGuMbKSTlfmbFclA/edit) is attached to their emails so that the can get access to all instructions about the online lesson. The attached file will have all instructions that students should use to for the lesson. 2. Students will watch a short YouTube video about cultures.

Learning Episode (Vocabulary)In this episode of vocabulary,1. Students will learn the relevant vocabulary (mentioned above) by illustrated pictures and definitions. These pictures and definitions will be in a tool of STUDYBLUE of the vocabulary. The tool is designed to let students do quizzes on the same vocabulary and get results as soon as they are done. 2. Then, after students study the vocabulary, they will have a crossword related the same vocabulary, so they can review and ensure that they understand these items of vocabulary. The task will be a crossword activity in a tool of CLASSTOOLS. 3- There will be an activity of filling the blank with the vocabulary that students have learned. The tool will be LEARNCLICK, so, student can practice vocabulary with sentences.

Learning Episode (Reading) In this episode of reading,1. Students will do an assignment which requires students to come up with three different cultures and list three practices from each culture. The tool used is EDMODO and there will be due date Students’ answers will be submitted directly to the teacher’s email, so that the teacher can ensure that students are familiarized with the topic that they are going to read.

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2. Then, students will have a PDF google form file where students can read the text (Cultural Differences). Note: students are required to get the teacher’s permission in order to access the reading text. The teacher will receive students’ emails requesting to be permitted to have an access for the text. 3. In order to further make sure that students can fully access the text, the teacher provides them with an optional activity by using the website http://ttsreader.com/ where they can copy and paste the text then listen to it.3. After reading, students will have a multiple-choice quiz in a google doc file and get their results as soon as they are done. They can see which correct answers are as well.

Learning Episode (Grammar) In this episode of Grammar, 1. Students will watch a tutorial video on YouTube about using definite and indefinite articles (the, a, an & zero-article) 2. Then, students will have three exercises related to these articles. The used tool is englishpage, so students can practice using these articles.3. Also, student can practice more by visiting leranenglishfeelgood3. The exercises (about English articles) on the website Learnenglishfeelgood are used to take students from easy to difficult activities. Students can see their answers if they are correct or not.

Add additional learning episodes if necessary.

Materials needed for this lesson

All materials will be available online for students.

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Reflection/Notes to Self

1- As a blended class, the teacher will have a face to face class with students, so he can ask student about the online class issues. 2- The teacher will cover the unclear parts of the online class, so learners can understand every episode. 3- Students have the teacher’s email, so they can ask when having quaetions or issues.

Note: This Backwards teaching plan/lesson plan is adopted from STARTALK 2016 Lesson Plan Template

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Detailed Instructions for Students

Note that those instructions will not be given all at once. Instructions for the whole online class will provided piecemeal every 8 hours.

In this learning session, you will:

1. Learn the vocabulary related to our reading topic “Culture Shock”.

2. Listen to the passage “Culture Shock”.

3. Read the passage “Culture Shock”

4. Answer the questions on the passage “Culture Shock”

5. Learn how to use the English article system.

Please read the following instructions and follow them carefully,

PART 11. Go to https://www.studyblue.com/#flashcard/view/19444531

To study the vocabulary relevant to the reading passage which you’ll get to soon. (You can repeat this step many times until you feel that you know

the meaning of the words)

2. Are you sure that you know them all? Ok, then go to http://www.classtools.net/crossword/201704-McREFg

and try to do it.

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Are you already in a good grasp of the vocabulary, if so let’s check.

3. Go to https://www.learnclick.com/quiz/show/23868

4. How is your score? Not sure, ok, repeat step 1 above.

5. Keep practicing the vocabulary.

PART 21. Watch the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkZyvDZFC8Q

2. Go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/14wk4Sn8c3Qukz7UUbV7aMmotV2cuNsCjVoUwRVA79Lw/edit

You’ll find the reading passage “Culture Shock”, copy and paste it on http://ttsreader.com/

Kindly note the screenshot below, what you may need to do is, simply:

- Type http://ttsreader.com/ in the address bar of your browser (it’s compatible with all browsers, Firefox, Chrome, IE & Safari )

- Copy the text “Culture Shock” from the google docs (step 2)

- Click on the green big button to listen to the text being read for you. (you can listen as many times as you like, in addition you can

choose the speaker of your preference from the drop-down menu to the right of the green play button)

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3. Now take some time to read the passage for yourself. Not sure about pronunciation or meaning of some words? no worries go to

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english-arabic/

type any word that you’re not sure about in the space then hit Enter, you’ll get the word with a small speaker next to it (click on the speaker to

listen to the word). Also, the meaning is provided.

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PART 3:1. Now, are you sure that you understand the passage? Ok, let’s check

2. Go to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19IlYcwuvwHqWDbb54BtmTdUURqflpXzUbZtcTxR7bsw/prefill

Answer the question and get your scores immediately.

3. Don’t forget the assignment, please go to https://www.edmodo.com/home#/group?id=24309779

This assignment is due May 16, 2017 @ 3:59 PM CT

PART 41. Bored of reading? Let’s have some fun with grammar

2. Watch the tutorial by visiting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBrUgUpjMjU

3. Practice your knowledge of using the articles by doing the following exercises. Please do the exercises in the sequence provided below

A. http://www.englishpage.com/articles/articles_3.htm

B. http://www.englishpage.co m/articles/articles_7.htm

C. http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/articles-a-the1.html

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If you have any question, don’t hesitate to contact us on

khaleel.abusal@ttu.edu or mohammed.f.almalki@ttu.edu

Also, between 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM (M, W , F), you can reach us live at Englishinstrutor on FB Messenger

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