Daniella CO #1 10/22

 10/22

Date/Time: 10/22 10am 

Topic/Skill: Grammar (writing using perfect gerunds)

Activity - writing for 10 minute


The objective of the lesson is to learn perfect gerunds. The teacher first started reviewing a slide from the past lesson they have to reinforce the gerund in order for them to complete the class activity. The activity was to write a paragraph on a prompt: "what are you proud of or regret doing in the last year." They all post their prompt to a discussion post and the teacher does it as well while projecting it on the smart board and they all share it together afterwards. They have 10 minutes to write this paragraph and he had a countdown timer displayed to assist the students. He was over their shoulder during the 10 minutes assisting them with any questions or difficulties they had when writing. After the 10 minutes expired he displayed everyone's writing examples on the smart board to the entire class. Going one by one through the prompts and asking out loud questions such as "What do you mean?" and "How can we fix this phrase?". This is how he helped correct their errors in their writing. The second activity they did was very short and he had a list of fill in the blank sentences that the students would do a mad libs exercise with gerunds. This seemed to really engage the students. These students seemed to be advance speaking at a normal speed and asking for correction as they go on.

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