A Tale of Two Pieces (Audience Awareness)

Entering Activity: Students will answer a sponge question asking them to identify who the audience of their reflective piece is going to be and what format the piece will take.
Anticipatory Set: Students will copy the agenda and I will collect homework.
Teaching and Learning: I will go over with students the importance of making your audience clear and ways we can do this (letter format, essay format). We will discuss what audiences need to know in the reflective piece.
Guided Practice: Students will read with a partner two pieces. They will answer questions that direct them to identify audience and the ways the writers addressed their audience.
Teaching and Learning: We will go over students’ answers and discuss the unity of the first piece, despite that it was not a letter.
Closure: I will ask students to identify underneath their sponge ways they can show audience awareness in their piece

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Comment by Amanda Addison on March 19, 2009 at 5:27am: My first class, my advanced students, didn't do very well working with a partner. I decided to modify the lesson for the rest of my classes. In my second class, We read the first piece together and answered the questions together. Then they read the second piece on their own and answer the questions. I did this also with my last class. My third class, however, I read the piece to them and we answered the questions together. This class has the most trouble reading and focusing. Even thoguh I was writing the answers on the computer and projecting them as we discusses them, many students still wuld not write them down.