Hi, I am an English major and they asked me to write a project for a 17week lesson plan. I have to write what i expect my students to achieve and what i will teach them in general. does anybody know how i to write this sort of thing? Or where on the internet I can locate this kind of information? Please help me, its urgent!!!

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Check out Dave's cafe. It's an ESL site mostly focused on teaching abroad but they have lots of lesson plans there. You should just be able to Google "ESL lesson plans" and find a wealth of information there.

In terms of how to write lesson plans, you always start out with an objective (what you want the students to learn) and then write what materials you will need, how you will actually teach the lesson, and new vocabulary, the assessment for learning and modifications for students who are a bit lower. If you do this for your project you should be fine.

By the way, planning for 17 weeks in a row would be really hard because you should base earlier lessons from what you want them to learn in the end but planning that far in advance makes it hard to stop and reteach something if learning hasn't occurred as expected. Is this 5 lessons a week for 17 weeks or just once a week?

Okay, a few questions first...

What grade / age group is the lesson geared for?
What are the levels of the students (emergent, beginner, intermediate, advanced)?
Do you have to actually carry out the units you design, or is this just for practice?
Do you have to write actual lesson plans for the entire 17 weeks? Or is it more of an outline of several units?

I'm an ESL teacher, and I would just laugh if someone asked me to plan ahead 17 weeks. I plan one week at a time, and even those plans change throughout the week!

Without knowing the exact details of the assignment, I can't give you too many pointers. Just remember to start with a learning goal in mind... what are the big ideas you want the students to understand? What standards will you address?

For a HUGE unit, I would suggest choosing a topic that fits in with what they're learning at grade level. For example, if you're designing the lessons for third grade, you might choose one of the biomes (at least, that is what third grade is working on at our school). You could choose the tundra... find tons of books about the climate, environment, animals, plants, etc. that live in the tundra. Build activities off of the books... incorporate math (maybe drawing animals to scale or graphing temperatures or precipitation), social studies (Does anyone live in the tundra? Why or why not? What would life be like if you lived in the tundra? How would it be the same/different?).... bring in realia such as a big block of ice for sensory learning.... find songs, poems, chants.... look for web sites that the students can use in a webquest.... think of some games you could play that involve speaking and listening... do a reader's theater.... have them write from the perspective of someone trekking through the tundra (maybe a diary or journal project)....


Basically, pick a big, general topic that is relevant to what they're learning. Then brainstorm as much as you can to find activities that will help them reach the learning goals.