Technology Lesson Plans

TESOL 501
Aleta Utaatu
Azusa Pacific University

1/21/2015

Aleta Uta atu

TESOL 501
Lesson Plans

Context
This lesson plan was designed for an intermediate level, reading and writing class for
adults at the Mid-Willamette Valley Literacy Center. The MWVLC is a non-profit, faith-based
organization dedicated to helping people enhance their lives through literacy and learning
English. The syllabus for this class uses The Giver as a guide for instruction employing a
content-content based curriculum.
Technology
In a growing digital world, students should not be left in the dark. They need to
understand how to use technology to communicate, find answers to questions, and perform
tasks such as log on to their physicians website. This class seeks to arm students with digital
knowledge to accomplish such tasks by requiring them to make daily posts to a classroom
Facebook page where they will discuss the reading as well as integrate various technologies
such as Google slides.
Learning Outcomes
1. SWBAT define the word utopia.
2. SWBAT apply knowledge from Facebook posts and assigned reading to express
opinions or debate theories during the class discussion.
3. SWBAT compare and contrast Jonas utopian society with our society by creating
a Venn diagram.
4. SWBAT examine characters within the text and identify their physical attributes
as well as their personality type and display their findings on a Google slide.

The Giver Lesson Plan: Week 2, Day 1

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TESOL 501
Lesson Plans

60 minutes
Timing
3 min

Task
Greetings

Description
Students (Ss) enter classroom and sit at their desks. Ss turn in
homework from previous week.
Teacher (T): How was your weekend? Dont forget to turn in
your homework.
Ss many answer individually.

14 min

Reading discussion
topic: Utopia

T defines the word Utopia. Ss participate in a guided

discussion on a perfect world (correlating with chapters 1-3
in The Giver). T will use Facebook (FB) posts from the previous
week to guide the discussion.
Sample talking points:
1. Many schools in the US require their students to wear
uniforms. How is this similar to the citizens in Jonas
village? What message does this send and what does it
reveal about society?
2. What consequences come from sameness and what
are the drawbacks of living in a Utopian society?
3. Can you identify similarities between our society and
Jonas?

18 min

Venn diagram
activity

Divide Ss into pairs to create a Venn diagram comparing the

utopian society in The Giver with our society. Ss will use a
medium sized poster board. When groups have finished, T
will draw the diagram on the Smartboard and Ss will fill it in
using the stylus.
See Appendix A

25

Character mapping

min

Materials required:

Ss will form groups of two. Assign each group a character

from The Giver. Using Google Slides, each group will create a
slide depicting how the character might physically look and
what their attributes are. All slides will be put together by the
T to create a character mapping slideshow to be presented to
the class. Students may be given more time during the next
class to continue the project.

Aleta Uta atu

TESOL 501
Lesson Plans

Lowry, L. (1993). The giver. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Smartboard
Poster board
Computers or tablets with internet access to connect to Google slides

Appendix A

Jonass Society

Our Society

They were assigned jobs.

We choose our own jobs.

We choose our own
spouses.
We choose our clothing.
We experience pain.

Both
societies
have:
Laws
Families

They were assigned

children and spouses.
They all wore the same
clothing.

Workers

They did not have

suffering.