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 * __Halloween Poetry Lesson__ **



__ Outline for the lesson __

 * Introduction**:

Grab students attention by asking a few questions to get them excited about what the lesson could be.
 * Who likes Halloween?
 * What are some of you dressing up as this year?
 * Who remembers how to right poetry?
 * Who likes poetry?

At this time I would talk about and re-introduce poetry and the new Halloween vocabulary that they learned in a previous lesson. After review I will explain what we are going to do and what the directions are for the assignment. After building up the lesson I will show the class a you tube video of an example of a Halloween poem media type="youtube" key="Ecy08CbX3uo?fs=1" height="310" width="387" align="center"
 * I will explain to the students that we are going to write Halloween poems that will use the vocabulary we learned in an earlier lesson. Will also use the writing process to for and accomplish writing our poems.
 * I will tell the students that when they have a final draft of the poem we will be publishing them online on their own wiki page with a voice recording of them reading their poem.
 * I then will explain that the wiki site will be view able for their parents from a link on the class website.

After showing the video, as a class we will come up with a short example poem that I will write out on the board for the students to look at while they work.

To start the lesson I will match up groups of students of different abilities so they can help each other with brain storming Once a student has finished writing their draft they will come up to work with the teacher assistant of myself to edit their poems. Once the Final poem is written the students will spend some free time through out the day and the next day to work with either the teacher assistant or myself on recording their voices. the reording will be off the students reading their poem. their poem and voice recording will be posted the on their wiki page.
 * Initiation of Lesson:**
 * During this time the teacher assistant and myself will spend time working with each group. We will work to keep students on task while helping the students through the first steps of the writing process.
 * Have students take part in the editing process
 * I will send a memo/note and an email to the parents of the students so they can know how to see the wiki page through the class website, so they can see what their children have learned and are doing in the class.

__** Lesson Plan **__