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LESSON PLAN

Topic: Outline writing for an Argumentative Essay.

Language Skill: Writing

Level of students: Level 6 / CELPAD

Students: 30

Time: 2 periods (50 + 50 minutes)

General Objectives:
Students will be able to write an outline of an argumentative essay (of any topic) following the outline given during the lesson.

Specific Learning Outcome:
At the end of the lesson students should be able to:

Write argumentative essay step by step.Pick appropriate arguments to support the topic.Organize their ideas logically.

Teaching aids:

1. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/724/01
This website will assist the students on formats of the different areas of an argumentative essay as well as the styles.

It will familiarize them with how to write a thesis statement, how to synthesize, summarize, quoting, etc.

2. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/writing/index.asp?topic=Persuasive
This website will assist the students with vocabulary, by using the dictionary provided; they are unsure of the meaning of words or are looking for a word with a similar meaning etc.

This will also help students to enrich their vocabulary.As well as searching information in encyclopedia that is available in this website too.

Assessments:
1- Selecting arguments, supporting the ideas given in the website, exercises given (pick the suitable argument given in a topic given).

2- Presenting skeletal format of their argumentative writing.

3- Writing a whole argumentative essay.No.ActivityTimeRemark1-Teacher begins the lesson by the introduction of the argumentative essay format using this website which is easy for the students to follow the steps shows in it:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/724/01/

15 minutesWhole-class

2- Students are asked to open this website where there are two mini lessons in it:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/writing/index.asp?topic=Persuasive

The students are asked to do the second mini lesson individually to show their ability in picking the most suitable argument for a topic given.10 minutesIndividual work

3- Later, they will show it to the teacher to check it one by one and see if they are able to do it correctly, so they can go to the next step.10 minutesIndividual work

4- The students are asked to sit in pairs on the computer and then open this website which they are already familiar with:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/writing/index.asp?topic=Persuasive

Each group must pick one topic.5 minutesPair work

5- Teacher asks the students to write out the skeletal format of the argumentative essay and then the teacher will check if the students are familiar with the format or not.10 minutesPair work

6- Teacher asks the students to get into groups of four (each two pairs get together) and present about the skeletal format verbally.20 minutesGroup work

7- Students are asked to write one argument for the topic given by the teacher where the teacher later would see if they are able to give strong arguments and how they take their stance, either they are agree or disagree.10 minutesPair work

8- Teacher asks the students to sit on the computer and write the entire argumentative essay on the topic they chose before submit it to the teacher via email.20 minutes.Individually

REFLECTIONS:

This assignment is challenging. It is not as easy as it looks. It is our first time doing such exercise, when first our lecturer asked us to make a lesson plan, we thought it was an easy work, but when we start working on it, we find a lot of difficulties and face a lot of consequences, especially when it comes to looking for the write website or the software, we has a very hard time.

we never thought that being a teacher has other problems than teaching and marking. We search in different places just to find a suitable website to make it easy to the students. Well, thanks to Allah The Almighty and to our dear teacher who was tolerant with us and gave us a lot of instruction, so we reached to this lesson plan. We learnt a lot from doing this exercises. It taught us on how to be patient and things in life sometimes need more than time.

At the beginning, we thought my own problem is the time, to manage doing this assignment with my all other subjects requirement. I hope from my heart that it is a very beneficial lesson plan to all of us.