Integrated Lesson Plan

Technical Writing

Dr. P. Purdy

Overview of Course: This course provides instruction for students who are deficient in reading and vocabulary skills as well as writing mechanics including grammar and spelling.

Objectives: The students will:

Increase proficiency in reading and vocabulary skills.

Enhance writing mechanics and grammar.

Procedures: The teacher will:

Instruct students to read works from required reading list.

Require students to use dictionary/thesaurus to determine definition of

words.

Instruct students to work collaboratively with word recognition.

Materials:

Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

This Is My Century by Margaret Walker Alexander

Webster’s Dictionary

Overhead projector

Video(s)

Chalkboard

Markers and pens

Butcher paper

Activities:

The students will:

View film

Tour Farish Street, Jackson State University, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, home of the late Medgar Evers

Create an exhibition using artifacts of the early 1900s.

Assessment: The assessment rubric will be determined with input from the students, once the rubric is determined and understood. The assessment will determine the extent which students understand the sense of community that Welty and Alexander espoused.

In addition to these activities, the students were placed into groups of four students each. They role played and dressed as Eudora Welty and Margaret Walker Alexander. The role playing really got them into the characters portrayed by Welty and Alexander. It also helped them to appreciate the literary contributions that Welty and Alexander made to the world.

The $150 stipend for supplies made a tremendous difference. The money was used to buy copies of the works by Welty and Alexander which our library did not have with the exception of Jubilee.