Content Area: ELA
Grade Level: 2
Today’s Lesson: The Lorax
Duration: 30-40 Minutes
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Sally A. Miller Content Area: ELA Grade Level: 2 Today’s Lesson: The Lorax Duration: 30-40 Minutes |
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LESSON RATIONAL
N.Y.S. English Language Arts Learning Standards
Standard 1: As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, or electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
Standard 2. Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically produced texts and performances, relate texts and performances to their own lives, and develop an understanding of the diverse social historical and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent. As speakers and writers they will use oral and written language for self-expression and artistic creation.
Standard 4: Students will use oral and written language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communication of others to enrich the understanding of people and their views.
N.Y.S. Learning Standards for Arts
Standard 1. Students will actively engage in the process that constitute creation and performance in the arts (music, theatre, and visual arts) and participate in various roles in the arts.
Instructional
Objectives
Read with teacher guidance The Lorax. [knowledge]
Review the major points in the book concerning the destruction of the Truffula Trees. [comprehension]
Discuss the story focusing on why the trees were destroyed and what could have been done to prevent it. [analysis & synthesis]
Write a response with a partner looking at the book’s ending – explaining how they could grow more Truffula Trees and illustrate their response. An alternative response would be why the Once-ler cut down all the Truffula Trees, and what he could have done to save some of them. [application]
As a class share their responses to the story. [evaluation]
A
copy of the book: The Lorax.
Teacher created response sheets.
Paper and pencils
Art supplies: markers, glue, and pom-poms
“Good morning, my name is Miss
Miller. Today I am going to be
reading one of my favorite stories called The Lorax, has anyone ever
heard of it? Give
the students time to think then chose two or three to answer. If
any students have heard of it ask then what they remember, if not give a quick
preview of the book. “While I
am reading I want all of you to think about what is happening in this book, and
what you could do to change what is happening.
Okay, lets get started.”
Activities:
1. Preview and read The Lorax. {prior knowledge} [verbal-linguistic and interpersonal]
2. Review the major events in the book and discuss what happened to the environment. Then discuss what could have been done differently. {check for understanding and guided practice} [verbal-linguistic and interpersonal]
3. Students will then work in pairs to respond in writing to the story focusing on what they would have done differently or what they could have done after the trees had all been destroyed to try to save the environment. {evaluation} [verbal-linguistic, interpersonal, and naturalistic]
4. Once the students have finished their reflection they will be given time to illustrate it. [interpersonal and visual-spatial]
5.
As the students finish their illustrations the class will share their
thoughts about the story and its moral. {evaluation}
[verbal-linguistic and interpersonal]
“I hope that you have had fun today discussing what happened to the Lorax and the environment he lived in. Would anyone like to share what they thought of the story, and how they would have done things differently than the Lorax or Once-ler?” Give the students time to think then chose four or five to answer. “That’s wonderful, now when you go home tonight you can share with your family what you have learned about the environment; maybe you even want to think about what is happening in our environment. Now I would like everyone to finish up what they are working on and clean up. I would also like to thank you for allowing me to visit you today.”
EVALUATION:
Did
the students:
Read The Lorax. with teacher guidance
Review the major points in the book concerning the destruction of the environment.
Discuss the story with the focus on why the trees were destroyed and what could have been done to prevent it.
Critically respond to the book’s ending and explain how they could grow more Truffula Trees or to the actual destruction of the trees and what could have prevented it; was there an accompanying illustration.
Effectively share their responses to the story.