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    Let's Take a Trip

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    Subject: ELA (English Language Arts), ESL/ELL (English Language Learning)

    Lesson Length: 30 - 45 mins

    Topic: Descriptive Writing, Adjectives, Travel

    Grade Level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: Students design a comic brochure about a destination and notice language patterns used to describe a specific place.

    Know Before You Start: This lesson is intended to allow students to practice using adjectives when speaking and writing.

    Hook:

    • Read and discuss the sample comic.
      • What does the character use to describe Hawaii?
      • What place in the world would you like to visit? 
    • Point out that in English we use an adjective + the noun, e.g., tall buildings, busy city, warm weather, sandy beaches. 
    • Display images of several destinations from around the world. 
    • Have students turn and talk to describe the places they see in the pictures using the following prompts:
      • What might you expect to see here? 
      • What activities would people do?
      • What do you think the weather is like? 
    • Walk around to provide feedback on language structure. 
    • Reinforce the use of adjectives when describing a noun.

    Activity:

    • Tell students to pretend that a big-shot advertisement agency is looking for young writers to design a brochure to win a trip to a destination of your choice. 
    • Using the sample comic as a guide, have them create a comic brochure of their dream destination that includes information on weather, the location's geography, and recreational activities. 
    • Remind them to make their destination interesting by using plenty of adjectives, pictures, and convincing language to convince tourists to visit!  
    • Remind students that they can upload images of their destination to Pixton.

    Closure:

    • Have students present their comics to the class or to a small group.

    Differentiation:

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
    • Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
    • Adapt sentence frames to match student language level.
    • Print out comics and have students highlight the adjectives used.
    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

    Resources:

    • Comic to print or display

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