Using the Discourse Lesson Plan model to give you an idea of some of the needed content for this Discourse LP assignment. Then create a lesson plan using the ECE LP Template , focusing on a discourse community. By the end of the lesson: What content area skills will the students be able to demonstrate? What graphic literacy or writing task will the students have mastered? What specific language skills will students need to master to be successful in the content areas and discourse parts of this lesson?
- Vocabulary and Morphology
- Syntax and Grammar
- Rhetorical Mode
- This lesson requires you to:
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- Identify a specific discourse community (e.g., scientists, writers, historians, mathematicians, etc.)
- Teach students how members of that community communicate
- Explicitly address:
- Vocabulary and morphology
- Syntax and grammar
- Rhetorical mode (narrative, descriptive, explanatory, argumentative, etc.)
Your objectives must be measurable and focused on linguistic behavior.Your essential question must focus on how language is used, not just content knowledge.For example:Not:
What is the water cycle?Instead:
How do scientists use cause-and-effect language to explain the water cycle?LP3 is about teaching students how to communicate like members of a discipline.
Requirements: 3 or more page lesson plan

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