Ann Gerber
Ann is an ESL teacher in Watauga County and teaches English Language Learners in 5 schools, grades K-12. She has a Masters of Arts in Teaching ESL and 24 years teaching experience in public schools in both North Carolina and Florida. Ann has published additional lesson plans on Learn NC modified for English Language Learners.
Resources created by Ann Gerber
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- Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens
- Students read, discuss, and write about Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens by Spencer Johnson, M.D., a parable about life's changes, and how best to benefit from them. By reading the parable, students will learn ways to react positively to inevitable change, and gain insight into their personal decision-making processes regarding changes in their lives, now and in the future. This lesson plan is modified for Advanced English Language Learners in the 9th and 10th grades. It is written for 45 minute class periods, but can be modified for 90 minute block classes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ann Gerber.
- Do you really believe in magic?
- Students are introduced to the genre (or mode) of Magical Realism in World Literature by reading Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings." This lesson plan is modified for an English Language Learner (ELL) at the Intermediate Low (IL) proficiency level.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ann Gerber and Tericia Summers.
- How ironic!
- This lesson will introduce students to the concept of irony. Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony will be defined, but the focus of the lesson is situational irony. This lesson can be used prior to teaching longer, more complex short stories that contain situational irony. This lesson is modified for an English Language Learner (ELL) who reads at the Intermediate Low (IL) level.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ann Gerber and Tericia Summers.
