English 309W
mini-lesson and assignment checklist
You will be
creating mini-lesson proposals and posting them on ANGEL.
I'll ask you to look analytically at your assignment with the help of the
following checklist.
I will expect
you to use this checklist format for the lesson design plan you submit when you
teach your mini-lesson
- What kind of writing is this
assignment?
- What is your instructional
objective?
- How have your students been
prepared for this assignment?
- Have you included any types of
prewriting exercises?
- What will follow completion of
this assignment?
- What is the time-frame for this
assignment?
- Why should your students write
this?
- Is revision part of the
assignment plan?
- Who is the intended audience for
the students' writing?
- Will students publish this
writing? How?
- Which of the New York State
English and Social Studies standards are addressed in this lesson?
Here are Louis Raths' "Thinking Skills" from pages 106 and 107
of A Community of Writers.
Consider which skills are being addressed and developed in this
assignment.
You do not need
to include this information in your lesson plan.
- comparing
- summarizing
- observing
- classifying
- interpreting
- criticizing
- looking for assumptions
- imagining
- collecting and organizing
- hypothesizing
- applying facts and principles in
new situations
- decision-making
- designing projects & investigations