Audio: Nature’s Sounds English Expository Writing Exercise
English Expository Writing Natures Sounds Lesson Plan
To hear the sounds, please click the link that says “Sounds Project” up at the top.
I took some basic sound bytes off the web and compiled them into Audacity. Students (5th graders) will listen to the sounds and then write an expository essay following the instructions dictated in the lesson plan.
July 1, 2010 2:36 pm 2 Comments
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By Eric, July 1, 2010 @ 2:43 pm
Ain’t Technology great. I am trying my darnedest to show that I am competent and can use technology to enrich my students. In the process, I cannot even embed the lesson on the blog post. I have attempted this multiple times. I have deleted the post and started this again.
I apologize to my readers but if you really want to view this you are gonna have to do it the old fashioned way and click the link on the top and it will take you to my lesson plan in Scribd.
Otherwise, we will have to heed Tom’s advice and wait for technology to become easier, I don’t know but the semester might be over before it gets easier.
Apologizing for my sarcasm but I refuse to throw my laptop at the wall right now.
By Tom, July 1, 2010 @ 9:34 pm
Eric,
I see the lesson. It looks perfectly embedded. Put the laptop down and back away slowly.
Now the lesson —-
If you’ve got computers or ipods it might be worth thinking about how you allow them to listen repeatedly as much as they want without dragging things out for others. Their’s also some good options for a graphic organizer to help structure notes.
One alternative might be to give the prompt before listening to the sounds, that way student perceptions are colored by the prompt. If you play this up a little bit and give out their prompts with some mystery and secrecy (as opposed to announcing it) then it becomes a little more interesting. You might consider prompts that are more like starting sentences for them to add to like “Terrified, you dashed behind a tree- not even daring to breathe. You stood frozen listening.” That type of thing. If they’re on slips of paper you can differentiate and have quite a bit of variety.
You might also think about alternative publishing options as opposed to the hallway.