Samantha Marchesano

EDUC 359

Professor Reilly

Fall 2017

SIOP ELA Lesson Reflection Questions

1.What was your objective(s) for the lesson? Do you feel like you achieved your

objective(s)? How do you know?

For our middle school ELA lesson plan, our objectives were; Understand higher

level vocabulary from the given poem; Utilize concepts from the poem to reflect real life

situation through a discussion; Construct an understanding of the vocabulary through

various aspects of the words. I believe that within our group (Celine Hermann, Olivia

Heyser and myself) were able to accomplish all these objectives while teaching Jack our

lesson. I know that we were able to achieve all our objectives because at the end, Jack

was able to respond in the discussion about real life choices in the discussion. Also at the

end of the lesson he was able to explain the definitions of the new vocabulary that we

taught in the lesson.

2.The goal here was to challenge the students' vocabulary/language development. Do

you feel that you challenged them in this regard? How do you know?

I do believe that we challenged Jacks vocabulary. In our lesson we took the hard

words from the given poem. The words we choose were trodden and diverged. Those

words would be considered higher-level vocabulary. I do believe that we challenged him,

as he admitted in the beginning of the lesson that he did not know what the words really
meant. Although at the end of the lesson he knew what the words meant and was able to

explain the definition to us and use both of them in sentences.

3.Was there a part of the lesson that you realized was too difficult and/or too easy?

Was there a part of the lesson that you felt didn't work the way you meant it too?

What adjustments could you make if you were to do this lesson again?

Overall I believe that the lesson was a very good lesson. It was a simple lesson

that could have been adapted to a second grade lesson using easier words or more

advances with higher-level vocabulary words. I think the word Trodden was a bit of a

higher level than a 7th grader vocabulary, although we made it work with the lesson. If I

had to make some adjustments I would have choose a slightly easier word, like diverged.

Jack slightly understood the meaning of that word but still did not completely understood

which was the over all point of the lesson. I think the lesson went well and I hope he

gained some insight from it.

4.I realize that communication was not an issue since they are both English

Speakers. If you were to repeat this lesson with an ELL student of the same age

(student has a

Basic understanding of the English language and lacks foundation of content

knowledge) what changes would you have to make?

If I had to teach this lesson to an ELL student, I would use, much simpler

vocabulary. I would make sure to use visuals. I would still use the video as it had great

visuals that helped explain the poem, but make sure to have more visuals that represented

the vocabulary terms. I would also change the second activity. If I were teaching this to

an ELL student I would not have a discussion. I feel like the ELL student may feel shy
conversing with other students if English is not their native language. The second

activity, instead of discussion hard choices you have had to make and how it affected

your life, have the students write it, so it could be accommodated to the lower and higher

level students.