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PLANNING
Class and Grade: English 11/12
Title: Participles and Participial phrases
Objectives: Students will be able to recognize participles and their phrases, as well as point out
the nouns that they modify and use these concepts in their own writing.
State Core Curriculum Standards:
(11th grade) 2.3 Edit and Revise and edit to strengthen ideas, voice, and word choice
(12th grade) 2.3b Edit for correct placement of modifiers
Concepts to be Taught:
 Recognition of participles and participle phrases
 How they modify nouns
Materials Needed:
 1st overhead  sentence “Running through the frightening woods, tired and hurt, the
daring scholar raced to reach the glittering palace of learning.
 2nd overhead  Participle: verbal form that is always an adjective.
o Past (-ed form or irregular past form – hurt) The exhausted students still
performed superbly.
o Present (-ing form) The yelling boy alerted Mr. Shaffer to the falling rock.
o Participle phrases (participle + modifiers and complements—entire phrase acts as
an adjective) Frozen with fear, the students stood still before the dinosaur,
quivering with anger.
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 3 overhead 3 pictures with some sort of action
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Strategies to be Used:
 Modeling, guided practice, independent practice, sentence imitation, sentence combining
PERFORMING
Announcements: (none)
Continuation from Previous Lesson: They have been reading Hunger Games and are now
writing a 4 page personal essay about their most difficult/challenging experience they have had.
They have already turned in a rough draft and this lesson will focus on a concept that I feel will
help them improve the action, scenery, and voice in their papers.
Lesson Presentation:
A) Getting Started: [anticipatory set]
a. Put up the first transparency with the sentence. Have the students read through it
and down all the verbs they see. Discuss as a class and vote on how many verbs
there are, but tell them there is only 1 (raced). Introduce the idea of verbals—
words that are like a verb but acts as an adjective, noun, or adverb. Participles are
one of the most common types of verbals.
B) Directing the Learning: [learning activities]
a. [modeling] Use overhead 2 to go through the different forms of participles:
present, past, but not the participle phrase yet.
b. [guided practice/sentence imitation] Have students work in pairs and use the
first two pictures on the 3rd overheard. Together, they are to create a sentence with
a past participle for one picture, and sentence with a present participle for the
other picture. We will read a few out loud and other students will point out the
participle and the verb in each sentence.
c. [modeling] Use overhead 2 again and show them the participle phrase. Explain
that it can be an adjectival or adverbial phrase. Have them pick apart the participle
phrase—what is the participle, what parts of speech are the other words, what
noun does it modify.
d. [guided practice/sentence imitation] Have students work individually and use
the third picture on the 3rd overheard. They are to create a sentence with a
participle phrase, either using the past or the present form of the participle. Again,
we will read a few out loud or write them on the board and have other students
pick apart the participle phrase answering the same questions they did for the
modeling.
C) Bringing the Class to a Conclusion
 [independent practice/accountability/sentence synthesis] Pull ideas back
together—go back to 2nd overhead. Ask if there are any questions. Explain that in
creative writing, participles and participle phrases are very useful to add action
and description to the sentence. For homework, they are to find at least 1
participle or participle phrase in each chapter assigned that night for Hunger
Games and they are to add at least one participle phrase to their personal essay.
Based off the lesson plan found from this site:
http://www.sewanee.edu/education/webfolios/2003/zshaffer03/School/participles.htm