I vs. Me Lesson Plan: Conventions of Standard English
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic I vs. Me and supports the standard of ensuring subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Display the following sentences:
My family and me went out for dinner.
My family and I went out for dinner.
Ask students:
- Which sentence is correct? How do you know?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Read the description on the I vs. Me topic page.
- Play the Movie, pausing to check for understanding.
- Assign Related Reading. Have students read one of the following articles: “Q&A” or “Etc.” Partner them with someone who read a different article to share what they learned with each other.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Assign I vs. Me Quiz, prompting students to apply essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about I vs. me while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.
- Make-a-Movie: Produce a tutorial explaining how to determine when to use “I” or “me” in different sentences.
- Make-a-Map: Create a concept map identifying examples of sentences that follow grammatical rules about “I,” “me,” “we,” and “us.”
- Creative Coding: Code a sorting game where players determine whether or not sentences use the correct first person pronoun.
More to Explore
Related BrainPOP Topics: Deepen understanding of conventions of standard English with these topics: Personal Pronouns, Subject-Verb Agreement, and Verbs and Their Objects. .
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