Find examples of the sentence level issue that you're going to focus on in your 704 lesson plan. You can work from your tutees writing or you can work from any of the essays that we've looked at this semester. What kind of lesson activities might you do with a class of students to help them with this grammar issue?
As I review our syllabus, I note that 33.3% of my grade hangs on this lesson plan. It's disturbing, but, though I recall lots of in-class discussion about the case study, I'm afraid I need to ramp up my game as far as a sentence-level lesson plan. Since I don't recall discussing it, I'll have to speak to Mark about it specifically to ascertain exactly what's expected.
LATER...
So, since I went to Tuesday's class and Mark explained this assignment in general terms. Apparently, we're to present a 20-30 lesson of sentence-level grammar (our imaginary audience is our tutees?). After my years in ESL, this should not be a major struggle. The challenge comes, first, in choosing a subject that maintains my, and others', interest (even for 5 minutes), then, too, in somehow keeping everyone's eyelids open for such a long period. Is it cheating to distribute toothpicks beforehand?
Actually, this is a very curious assignment, following as it does from Mark's very informative workshop last Thursday on teaching grammar without even speaking about grammar, that is, a more inductive method. Now, though, we'll be lecturing for 20-30 minutes on grammar? Hmm.
Still, in order to really address this prompt, I'll need more information. When we spoke about the details of this project, Mark said it would all be unfolding gradually, with "very rigid guidelines," though he offered to email me the info. I told him not to bother, but now I think I'd like to have as complete an overview as possible as soon as possible. Ya feel me?
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