Level: High Intermediate to Advanced IEP/ESL
50-minute class
Grammar Focus: Adjectives/Descriptors for Compare and Contrast Writing
Skill Focus: Writing
Socio-linguistic Focus: Cultural uses of color
Aim: Describe an action or a feeling through the use of color and color combinations.
Previous Work: Movie Worksheet with vocabulary
4 Movie Magic mosaics
Pre-Task Warmer:
25 minutes: Ask the students to pin-up or tape up his/her 4 mosaics to the classroom wall for the class to see. Then instruct the students to walk around the room and look at everyone’s mounted mosaics.
Task:
25 minutes: Then the students are to begin writing four paragraphs that describe each of his/her mosaic using the vocabulary from the movie worksheet. Each paragraph should describe the choices he/she made when making the mosaics of each movie clip and why the colors are so important to the movie and he/she as a viewer.
Homework:
Edit/Finish 4 descriptive paragraphs as an addition to the previous blog posting with images of Movie Magic Mosaics. Print out edited paragraphs from blog posting for in-class reference during critique.