Today we got to finish watching our professor's lesson plan he did with a fourth grade class. It was a neat and fun way to watch someone teach personification in the way that he did. The whole lesson was good, but I'm going to specifically talk about how he introduced and engaged the students.
He of course started his lesson with the essential question. In the EQ, the word personification was in there. This was the first time they had been exposed to the word so he pulled up the definition. The dictionary definition is really long and complex for fourth graders, so he decided to help them define it in a different way. His new definition of personification was something along the lines of, "Something acting as if it was a person on a vacation." How cool is that?! We know personification as a nonhuman thing having human characteristics, but the way it was presented to these fourth graders was brilliant to me! From then on you can see the students were engaged throughout the whole lesson.
Great job Mr. Flores!
He of course started his lesson with the essential question. In the EQ, the word personification was in there. This was the first time they had been exposed to the word so he pulled up the definition. The dictionary definition is really long and complex for fourth graders, so he decided to help them define it in a different way. His new definition of personification was something along the lines of, "Something acting as if it was a person on a vacation." How cool is that?! We know personification as a nonhuman thing having human characteristics, but the way it was presented to these fourth graders was brilliant to me! From then on you can see the students were engaged throughout the whole lesson.
Great job Mr. Flores!