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 **Subject:** Lan guage  Arts
 * Lesson Title:** Inspiration/ Create your own children's book
 * Grade Level:** 7th Grade
 * Teacher:** Ms. Burke

Focus Attention/ Motivation: 10 minutes Instructional Input and Modeling: 15 minutes Student Engagement and Practice: 15 minutes Closure: 5 minutes Total: 45 minutes
 * Time Frame**

1. For students to find inspiration from a children's story that they loved when they were younger.
 * Overall Goal/ Purpose**

IL Correlated Sets IL.2.A STANDARD: Understand how literary elements and techniques are used to convey meaning. IL.2.A.3c Identify characteristics and authors of various literary forms (e.g., short stories, novels, drama, fables, biographies, documentaries, poetry, science fiction). IL.2.A.3d Identify ways that an author uses language structure, word choice and style to convey the author’s viewpoint.
 * State Standards**

1. Students will share with groups members a story that brought inspiration to them as a child as well as the will discover a definition of what the word inspiration means to them.
 * Instructional Objectives**

1. Student Journals 2. Copy of the story "The Teacher from the Black Lagoon" 3. Comic strips
 * Materials**


 * Procedures**

1. Yesterday I asked for you to bring in your favorite childhood children’s book that inspired you when you were a child or bring in one of your favorite children’s stories. 2. "I would like for you to take out your journal and write the word inspiration in the middle of the paper. I would like for you to take a few minutes and brainstorm what the word inspiration means to you. Once you are done with that write down your ideas and share an example of how someone or something has inspired you in your life." I will share an example of how my mother inspired me to become a teacher. 3. After students complete their journal entry, students will be able to share if they won't but they will not be forced too.
 * Focus Attention/Motivation:**

1. I will read students the story "The Teacher from the Black Lagoon" by Mike Thaler. 2. I will explain to the student that this book inspires me because I always want my students to feel welcomed and not be afraid to come to my class because they think I am going to be mean to them. I want students to know that I am the teacher they can come to if they need help or need advice. 3. After the completion of the story, students will each be given a piece of a comic strip. Once each student is given a piece of a comic strip, the students will be informed to find their partners that have the matching sequence of the comic. (This is a different way to group students as well as they are provided with the opportunity to move around. 4. Once students find their group members they will find an area of where they want to sit in the classroom.
 * Instructional Input & Modeling:**

1. Students will read their children's book to their group members and explain why this story inspired them or why this was their favorite children's story. 2. If students finish early they will be able to play "mad libs". Groups will be given a "Mad Libs" book and they will fill in the blanks with nouns, adjectives, and descriptive words.
 * Student Engagement/Practice:**

1. Students will share with the class what they thought of everyone's books.
 * Closure:**

Students will be monitored if they are properly participating in their groups and are actively engaged.
 * Assessment**
 * Informal Assessment:**

Rubric Assessment
 * Rubric Assessment**

No resources added.
 * Resources**

Lower Achieving students will be provided with a prompt on how to start their journal
 * Accommodations**