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Lesson Plan:

Instructor: Shirley Wang, Shannon Zensen, Ryan Dumbroff, Ryan Byrne

Date: April 20, 2009

Class: Connections

Class Name: Silly Willy's

Topic: "The Eye of the Beholder" Chinese Beauty

Objective: Students will discover and learn about China's perception of beauty.

Rationale: Students need to be informed on countries other than America and learn their ideas of beauty.

Lesson Content: In this lesson, students will first face the whiteboard. There will be a chinese character on it and students will briefly learn about the symbol. Students will then watch a powerpoint and take notes. The students may then use their notes to take a pop quiz. They will grade their quizzes by swapping with a partner. Students will then make their own Chinese Fans.

Instructional Procedures:

Anticipatory Set: Students will walk in and see the Chinese symbol for beauty. We will let them guess the character and then introduce our topic.

Teaching Procedures: Step 1: Students will be introduced to the symbol for beauty in Chinese "mei" Step 2: Teachers will introduce theirselves and the lesson for today. Step 3: Students will then take out paper for notes and watch a powerpoint. (two minutes) Step 4: Teachers present powerpoint Step 5: Students will take quiz on the powerpoint with notes (ten minutes) Step 6: Students will swap papers and grade each others papers. (ten minutes) Step 7: Teachers will demonstrate how to make fans (five minutes) Step 8: Students will create fans of their own (fifteen minutes) Step 9: Teachers will explain homework--write a reflection on what you learned Step 10: If there is extra time, the students will have a discussion on what they learned(help for homework)

Formative Check: We will check their quizzes and their homework to see if the students were paying attention.

Student participation: Students will participate in the quiz and grading and the fan making.

Closure: Teachers will explain homework to students.

Evaluation Procedures: Students will be evaluated through homework.

Materials: whiteboard, smartboard, pencil, paper, red pen, crayons, markers

Attached: attach quiz and powerpoint