This is a thread for any lesson material for J.L. Haas (2009 edition) Middle School English 1 Lesson 1: Everyone is Special.  Please share your contributions here. Be sure to explain exactly what you are posting and please do not post multi-level materials in this thread. Also, any review lessons or materials should be posted in the review section for this grade. If you can't find what you're looking for here, be sure to check the previous edition of the book.  Best of luck in your lesson planning!

This is a pretty bog standard introductory chapter. This plan covers the intent of the lesson .  I threw in a ball game and some scattegories, too.  They lead up to the following activites. All the students should be able to fill out the handout, some of them will likely volunteer to tell the class about their partner, and a few 천재 students should even be able to ask the teacher a question or two at the end. 

I've the score sheet and handout, as well as the batman movie which is integral to the lesson.

Edit:  I just remembered two more things you're going to need.

The first is an XLS file. "score.xls"  I teach 15 classes so the spreadsheet has 15 classes.  It's got a blank column for their numbers where their names ought to go (but I don't have any class lists yet so it's blank.

The second thing you need is the document "Seats0.doc"  It also is blank.  Add your students names for each class.  Print off 1 for each class, then laminate them.  You now know the names of each one of your students. 

Using these together, you can put a big display up at the beginning of each class showing the students exactly how well they're all doing relative to each other.  All you have to do is copy/paste the bar graphs (included in the xls file)  to the beginning of each classes ppt for the week.   Now you too can name and shame!

Also there's a lesson plan if your Korean teachers are the kind who ask for that kind of thing.  It's long and verbose but accurate.  If anyone wants to help contribute to the verbosity it'd be most appreciated.

PS. For the ball game I recommend #6 red - 20cm from HERE

I was searching through these posts, and (after i posted my own) found this one. It took me a while, so, if you guys/girls want to move some of these comments to the other one, perhaps we can work on the thread that is labeled after the books name?

Middle School English 1 Johanna L. Haas.

thanks

Hey all, just wondering if there is a link to the digital textbook for this new book? Thanks in advance 

Hey there guys... I wanted to get this out to you all before I left for the day.  I am going to be focusing on family members using the first phrase from the lesson:  "Who's the man in the picture?"--> "He's my music teacher."  The game is pretty straightforward, but just in case... Two students stand up (front of the room, at tables, your call) with one person picking a row by asking a question, something to the extant of "Who is the person in the 1st picture.  The next student picks the column by answering "She's Lady Gaga. She's my older sister" Click on the box and points or bomb should appear.

Ill get my introduction up soon.

Cheers

I was told to prepare a lesson based on p.21, the am/is/are and negation stuff. 

I tweaked and added to a PPT that I found on one of the computers at my schools when I first got here last year and then never used because...well it just didn't come up.  There is also a worksheet.  I havn't completely finished the lesson yet (not sure what I'm doing to wrap things up yet) but this is what I've got if anyone needs a look.

And I'm going to draw a grid up on the board which I'm going to have the kids copy down in their notebooks.  It's 3 squares across and 5 down.  Fill in the first column with I, he/she/it, you, they, we. The rest will be filled in as you go through the PPT.  In the middle column you put the appropriate am/is/are, and in the right side column you put don't or doesn't


EDIT: Having done this lesson now, with rather low students, we only got up to the worksheet (and some had to take it home for homework to finish (like one or two).  With my average students we got through the whole thing.  Just to help you gauge.

Hi everybody!

I've included my lesson plan for the 1st day (which consists of an introductory powerpoint with a speed race game. I also included pictures of myself and family so I could use the key expression, "Who is the man/woman... in the picture?" when I talk about myself. There is also a supplementary sheet for them which includes classroom commands that I say).

Day 2 materials are: A Powerpoint with review vocabulary, a powerpoint with descriptors (depending on time and the level of students, I stop after the glasses slide because the other stuff - long, short, curly hair, eye color, etc. - is not covered in this lesson), a supplementary sheet with word bank words (ask and answer exercises about family members, identifying school subjects, and on the back, a list of descriptors).

Finally, if you have time with your classes, I've included a Batman review game. The game came from the game template section of waygook, so thank you original creators!!! You are awesome!

@Mattaru - on the Simpsons worksheet, if you are supposed to be Lisa for the vantage of the family tree, then shouldn't the sister be Maggie?  And then should the sister question on the second half of the page be changed to Maggie?  Otherwise great lesson.  I can see my students getting into it because of the characters.

And to anyone else doing this lesson - Good time fill if you don't have enough time for the game but still have a decent chunk - have the students do their family trees on the back of the worksheet out through their grandparents.  You can learn a little more about your students and it has them using the language you just taught.

Hi everyone,

I taught this lesson over three class periods. During the first period, I taught school subjects and first, second, third, etc. I followed the textbook pretty closely for my second and third classes, teaching "Who is the ______ over there?" and descriptor words.

My classroom is entirely no-tech, so no powerpoints.

This ppt reviews family names (brother, sister, mother, father, etc.) as well as "Who's the woman/man in the first/second/third picture" and "She's my/He's my..."

The first slides are heavily personalized, but if you have photos of your family members you could easily change it. Students loved seeing photos of my family.

Thanks to other waygook users for the lesson breaks, like "The Odd One Out."

The final slide, "Ask the Teacher" is something I use if/when there are a few extra minutes of class. I toss a ball to students who have questions for me about anything at all. Candy is surely the motivator here, but it works!