Final Project
Topic: For my final, I am going to try and
incorporate many of the ideas we have discussed in class into a lesson plan
that explores dialect, culture, and identity.
My goal is to put something together for students to learn how to speak
in another’s voice/dialect, and in so doing find a deeper understanding of
their own voice, identity and dialect (and hopefully make the connection that
all dialects, and in fact all people are equally important). At this point I envision something like our
group study/presentations on dialect.
Followed up with reading Twain’s A
True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It—then a writing project,
for which students will be asked to write approximately two pages of dialogue
(either fiction, or transcribed like our classroom dialogue project)
representative of the parlance of their time/place.
Format: 4-6wk lesson plan. I will be using the “Backward Design Model” (Tomlinson
& McTighe, Understanding By Design), as my template. The backward—design, lesson format is one
which I have been working with a little bit, and also hope to use it during my
student teaching experience. After
creating the lesson plan, I will also address which elements of the Common Core
Standards this lesson plan touches upon.
Questions: At this point I am wondering if I have too
broad a topic, and am hoping the answer to this question will reveal itself as I
start putting the lesson together. Plus
I would appreciate any feedback that may help guide me to a better end product.
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