GED 2002 Teachers' Handbook of Lesson Plans
Activity Title - "Banana-Nut" Bread Descriptive
Writing
| Area/Skill
– LA Reading
and Writing |
Cognitive
Skill Level – Analysis and Application |
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Activity Title - "Banana-Nut" Bread Descriptive Writing
Goal/Objective
Students write a well-organized descriptive essay on a given
topic, utilizing the rules of EAE.
Lesson Outline
Discuss "description writing" and review the four steps in the
writing process.
Introduction
Discuss specifics of "description writing" process.
Activity
Students are given a snack of "banana-nut" bread. "Idea map" is
completed as a group on board, with emphasis on the five senses.
Students organize their ideas and write 200-word essay, using
an introduction, body paragraph, and conclusion.
Debriefing/Evaluation Activity
Background of "family tradition" recipe will be discussed, and
students will be asked to bring their own "family tradition" recipe
for the next class period.
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Materials, Texts, Realia, Handouts
- Prepared "banana-nut" bread, sliced
- Napkins
- Copies of original recipe
- Notebook paper and pen
Extension Activity
Students will use the recipe they have bought from their own
family as a basis to write their own well-organized, 200-word
description essay.
Ask for volunteers to prepare and bringtheir own "family tradition"
recipes for class sampling.
ESE Accommodations
Have students prepare a set of vocabulary cards, using any unfamiliar
terms in the recipe with the meanings on the reverse side.
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Real-Life Connection
Preserving "family tradition" through the passing down of recipes.
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| Area/Skill
– LA Reading and Writing |
Cognitive
Skill Level – Analysis and Application |
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Activity Title - "Banana-Nut Bread" Descriptive Writing
Introduction
Say: Descriptive writing tells readers what a
person, place, or thing is like. A good description gives the reader
vivid, detailed mental imagery, using specific details, colorful
adjectives and adverbs, comparisons, and draws on the five senses.
It begins with a topic sentence, contains supporting sentences,
and ends with a good conclusion.
Main Activity
Review the four steps of the writing process: 1] gathering ideas,
2] organizing ideas, 3] writing the essay, 4] revising/editing.
Pass out slices of banana-nut bread without comment. Students eat
their treat while the teacher solicits responses for an "idea map"
to describe the banana-nut bread, using the five senses as a focus.
Gathered responses are noted on the board. Students decide an appropriate
sequence and then number the ideas for use in individual descriptive
essays. Draw on the newly organized "idea map" for composition.
Allow 35 minutes for this activity.
Closure/Conclusion
The recipe for "banana-nut" bread will be distributed, and instructor
will give students a family-history background of the recipe's origin.
Ask students to bring one of their own family's traditional recipes
for the next class.
Follow-up Lessons/Activities
Instructor reviews the last two steps in the writing process (revising/editing).
Students are paired and essays from the previous day are distributed
for peer-assisted editing and revising, using checklists provided
by instructor. |
Jane Farley's "Family Tradition" Banana-Nut Bread
Ingredients
1 ½ cups sugar
½ cup of stick margarine
2 eggs
1 tsp. baking soda
4 tablespoons buttermilk (or sour milk)*
2 cups cake flour
½ tsp. salt
3 mashed bananas
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup of chopped pecans (or walnuts)
Directions
In large bowl cream sugar and margarine. Then, add eggs and beat hard.
In a small bowl mix salt and cake flour. In measuring cup dissolve baking
soda in buttermilk (or sour milk). On low mixer speed alternate adding
flour and milk mixtures to the ingredients in the original bowl. Mash
bananas and add slowly. Add vanilla and mix thoroughly. Stir in the chopped
pecans (or walnuts).
Grease or spray a Bundt pan, tube pan, or 2 regular-size loaf pans. Pour
the mixture into prepared pan(s). Bake at 325 degrees from 1 ¼
- 1 ½ hrs. or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Let cool
for 10 - 15 min. before removing from pan(s). Finish cooling on cake rack.
Banana-nut bread freezes very well in zip-lock plastic bags. If desired,
it can be topped with a powdered sugar-mashed banana glaze or sprinkled
with sifted powdered sugar only.
Note
* If you do not have buttermilk, you can make sour milk by adding a heaping
½ tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar to whole milk.
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