lesson_story

=Names:= Janet Rivera, Miriam Lopez, Olinda Ramirez, Denia Mota

Aim:
What is the setting of a story?

Standards:
Standard 2 -- Key Idea 1 -- Performance Indicator 3

Our goal is to teach children the elements of a story. This process will take about a week because the elements consist of characters, setting (time and place) and plot (problem, events, solution). We decided to teach each separately so that the children can focus on the importance that each element has in a story. We will start the week by teaching characters on Monday, setting on Tuesday, the plot will be taught in two days (Wednesday and Thursday) because it consists of details, on Friday we will do a culminating activity in which the students will choose a book and complete a sheet which would require them to fill in the empty spaces (Title, Author, characters, setting, problem, events to help solve the problem, and solution). The lesson plan that we worked on for the Wiki space is on teaching children how to identify the setting of a story. We were able to find some "ERIC" articles which were helpful in giving us ideas and books that can be used in the lesson. Taking this class has taught us how to prepare lesson plans using the resources that are available throught the internet. We have also learned that there are other educators who are willing to share their knowledge with those who need help in understanding certain skills that are needed in preparing lessons for a class. This class has been very helpful and we know that we will use everything that we have learned when working as a teacher.
 * Summary:**

[|1- Ediger, Marlow. Children's Literature in Language Arts. (2002-01-00). ED 461 826] http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/19/cb/fd.pdf [|2- Hanzl, Anne. The PETA Guide to the Children's Book Council Awards Shortlist, 2002. (2002-00-00).ED 468 245] http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/29/d1/38.pdf [|3- Schmelzer, Ronald;Henson, Kenneth. Episodic Mapping: A Technique to Help Studets Understand Stories. (1989). ED 306 539 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1e/a3/29.pdf]
 * APA Citations:**


 * Lesson Plans:**
 * 1) – http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAWildThingsStoryElementsK2.htm
 * 2) – http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAReadingSetting23.htm
 * 3) – http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAStoryMap23.htm

__**Online Collaborative Writing Assignment**__

A wiki is a website in which users can create and edit any page by contributing or modifying the content of the page. You can also add a comment and attach a file to a wiki page. A wiki can help people understand things that they are not familiar with. Users can ask questions while other users can answer them to the best of their knowledge.
 * Group Definition of Wiki and Weblogs:**

A wiki can help when creating a lesson plan because it makes it easy for the individual to find the information that they are looking for. It can also help the individual get ideas that will help them prepare an interesting lesson plan since they are getting information from others who are in the same profession.
 * How could Wikis and/or Weblogs be used in your lesson plan?**

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