English Lesson Plans

Comprehend literary texts: - Noting important elements (story grammar). - Sequencing events: - At least 7 events - Identifying type of plot: - Sequential - Analysing sound devices: - Onomatopoeia - Alliteration - Assonance - Consonance - Analyzing figures of speech to get and clarify meaning: - Simile - Metaphor - Personification - Inferring: - Character’s feeling and traits - Making predictions: - Character’s possible decision/action - Drawing conclusions. - Identifying the main idea. - Summarizing story events. - Applying the important story elements to one’s schema: - Evaluating possibility of an event happening in real life.

Comprehend informational texts: - Noting important information through outlining (topic, main idea, supporting details): - Deductive organization (inverted pyramid) - Identifying text types: - Explanation - News report - Identifying author’s purpose: - Entertain - Inform, explain, describe - Drawing conclusions. - Making generalizations. - Making a summary. - Distinguishing fact from opinion (statements of facts, opinions, and fact-based statements of opinion).

Use words with literal (denotative) and implied (connotative) meanings in sentences: - Using context clues: - Analogy - Using structural analysis: - Suffixes: - Verb-forming suffixes - Using general references (print and online): - Dictionary

Use tone and mood appropriately for one’s purpose, context, and target audience: - Formal

Compose appropriate sentences for clarity and coherence: - Using subject-verb agreement: - Kind of nouns: - Collective, concrete, abstract - Subject pronouns: - Demonstrative - Relative - Using kind of verbs: - Helping - Linking (and sense) - Transitive - Using tenses of verbs: - Progressive: - Present - Past - Future - Using adjectives: - Series (determiner, quantity, quality, size, shape, color) - Using adverbs: - Manner - Time - Using complement: - Noun - Composing compound-complex sentences.

Produce text with introduction, body, and conclusion in conveying ideas: - Giving relevant information on a given topic.

Express ideas appropriately (age-appropriate, gender-responsive, culture sensitive) for one’s purpose, context, and target audience: - Using text types: - Narrative - Explanation - News report - Using friendly letters (e.g., excuse, invitation, gratitude, etc.).

Use appropriate non-verbal cues for clarity of context, purpose, and meaning: - Using facial expressions. - Using gestures. - Using eye contact. - Using haptics. - Using posture. - Using proxemics and blocking.

Fill out forms accurately: - Personal data forms - School forms

Identify visual elements: - Using layout (margin, grid, header, slide bar)

Derive meaning based on the visual elements: - Interpreting tone and mood (colors, space, layout, directionality). - Identifying the purpose of the visual text. - Analyzing how visual elements contribute to the meaning of a text. - Interpreting images/ideas that are explicitly used to influence viewers: - Stereotypes on age and gender. - Stereotypes on socio-economic status.

Evaluate cultural appropriateness of visual elements.

Create a visual text drawn from visual elements learned.

Identify multimedia elements: - Audio (dialogue, recorded narration, music, sound effects)

Derive meaning for multimedia elements learned: - Identifying the author’s purpose.