EESL 545-50 Assignment#3 Mini-Lesson PPT

Strategy: Organizing Ideas : 

Strategy: Organizing Ideas Park, Ji Hae February 1, 2010

Introduction to Organizing Ideas : 

Introduction to Organizing Ideas Step 1 Knowing what is Organizing Ideas Students organize what they read into clusters or semantic maps These are graphical models designed to help students identify important ideas and how these ideas fit together in a text. To provide some order to the chaos

Demonstrating Organizing Ideas : 

Demonstrating Organizing Ideas Step 2 Read Cinderella individually. After reading Cinderella , talk about the story and characters with your group. Cinderella Stepmother, Sister1, Sister2 Fairy Prince

Demonstrating Organizing Ideas (continued) : 

Demonstrating Organizing Ideas (continued) Step 3 With your group, write down the main characters one by one and their roles and what they do briefly. Cinderella should be the center of organizing. Cinderella Stepmother Sister 1 Sister 2 Fairy Prince The opponents The helper The lover

Demonstrating Organizing Ideas (continued) : 

Demonstrating Organizing Ideas (continued) Step 4 With the organizing, make a script for a role play. Each member of a group should have a role. EXAMPLE #1 Cinderella is working at the floor. She is whispering. Cinderella : Hoo... When can I finish my work? It's too hard for me. (looking at the sky) I miss my father and  mother in the heaven. (she is crying) Mother and Sisters appear. Mother    : Cinderella! What are you doing now! You should  finish it by now.                What a lazy girl! (She is blaming Cinderella) Sister1    : Are you crying now? Huh! What makes you cry? You stupid! Sister2    : Cinderella, did you finish cleaning my dress? Cinderella : Not yet, I'm sorry... I was very busy...

Demonstrating Organizing Ideas (continued) : 

Demonstrating Organizing Ideas (continued) Step 5 Do a role play!

Guided Practice : 

Guided Practice Read a story by yourself. Organize the ideas about the story with your group members. Rewrite a script for role playing based on the organizing ideas. Do role playing with your group members. Share with your whole class!!!

Review Organizing Ideas : 

Review Organizing Ideas Step 1 Knowing what is organizing ideas Step 2 Reading Cinderella and then thinking about the story and characters Step 3 Organizing graphically with the brief story Step 4 Rewriting a script for role playing with the organizing ideas Step 5 Doing role playing with the script

Applying It : 

Applying It *Read an article on current issues. Exchange your opinion about the issue with your pair. Organize this into clusters. Summarize this on your own.