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The Grammar Supermarket Lesson Plan

Name:  Michelle Macchi

Type of Lesson:  WebQuest

Lesson Plan Title:  The Grammar Supermarket

Discipline and Topic: English 12, Grammar and Conventions Usage

Target Population:  Heterogeneous group of male and female 12^th grade students with mixed ability levels. 

Curriculum Links:   This lesson is designed to be inserted into the writing process of any of the written assignments that students will complete during the second year of the program. It will be delivered to students individually, after the rough draft has been written. It is intended to assist the student to overcome identified grammar deficiencies. After completing the tutorial exercises and accompanying quiz, the student will be tasked with editing his or her own draft and creating a final copy paper. After completing all of the components of the lesson plan, the student will move on to the portfolio application of the essay.

Objectives:

Students will be able to….

• Improve grammar; mechanics; punctuation; spelling and diction; and sentence structure, variety, and length as well as
• Identify and understand their individual strengths and weaknesses to improve performance.

Media Literacy Objectives:

Students will be able to…

• Use online resources to enhance personal/professional productivity.

Materials and Timing: This will occur during two or three days. Students will need a copy of the rough draft, access to the Internet and a printer. If I am not present in class on the day that students are working on this assignment, the computer lab teacher will assist students by answering questions and monitoring for task compliance.

Scope and Sequence :

Day One: Each student will receive whatever draft was submitted to me back with instructions to visit The Grammar Supermarket. Individual students will be provided with a shopping list in response to issues identified in their draft. For example, a student may receive a  shopping list that says "Complete a capitalization tutorial and a corresponding exercise at The Grammar Supermarket.".

The student will log on to the WebQuest and complete the tutorial and exercise. Once the student feels confident in his or her new ability, then he or she may proceed to checkout and take the quiz posted for that topic. (Quizzes will need to be changed periodically.)

If the student receives a score of 70 and above, he or she will copy the successful quiz results. If the student does not earn a grade of 70 or above, he or she must practice again and re-test afterwards.

Day Two: Once the student has completed the remediation process, he or she will edit the rough draft, correcting the errors and submit it as a final copy ,with a copy of the quiz results attached, using the email feature embedded in the checkout process.

Day Three: Students will be referred to the WebQuest to address individual needs. If a student has more than 3 referrals per term or more than two referrals for the same issue,however, he or she will be required to join the Frequent Shoppers Club. The Frequent Shoppers Club includes prompts for a reflective writing piece to be submitted to me as an attachment to an email (also embedded in the screen).  The reflective piece will ask the student to consider their writing process and the potential roadblocks. Finally, the student must formulate a written plan to improve his or her written communication skills.

Supplemental Materials – In case of computer failure, I will need to use Web Whacker to make these tools available off line and create a hard copy of each.

Evaluation of Students –

Objectives: Students will be able to…	100-85	84-70	69-55	54 and below
Improve grammar; mechanics; punctuation; spelling and diction; and sentence structure, variety, and length	Student revised the rough draft, correcting 85-100% of the errors within the identified category.	Student revised the rough draft, correcting 70-85% of the errors within the identified category.	Student revised the rough draft, correcting fewer than 70% of the errors within the identified category.	Student did not revise the rough draft.
Identify and understand their individual strengths and weaknesses to improve performance. (This includes the reflective writing task for students who were required to complete it.)	Student demonstrated an understanding of individual strengths and weaknesses by willingly completing the required tasks for remediation.	Student demonstrated an emergent understanding of individual strengths and weaknesses by completing all of the required tasks for remediation with some prompting to stay on task.	Student demonstrated a desire to understand individual strengths and weaknesses by completing most of the required tasks for remediation with some prompting to stay on task.	Student did not demonstrate an understanding of individual strengths and weaknesses to improve performance.
Use online resources to enhance personal/professional productivity.	Student successfully used online tutor instruction to improve grammar and conventions usage performance by achieving a quiz score in the 85% and above range.	Student successfully used online tutor instruction to improve grammar and conventions usage performance by achieving a quiz score in the 70-84% range	Student successfully used online tutor instruction to improve grammar and conventions usage performance in the range of 70-55%.	Student did not successfully Use online resources to enhance personal/professional productivity as evidence by achieving a quiz score of below 55%.

Evaluation of the Lesson –

I will consider this lesson a success if the average student score is 75 or above. My sincere hope is that success will be evidenced by an improvement in the grammar and conventions usage of the lowest achieving 25% of students.