Educator/Group Names: Kathleen Brinson

Grade level: 8-12th

Subject: ESOL
Date of lesson: 7-31-16
Length of lesson: 60 minutes
Lesson Topic: Writing a proposal
Overall Goal:
Students will understand the elements of a well written proposal asking for funding for an idea or
grant.
Learner Background:
-Students have been working on ways to meet particular needs in their community and are ready
to present a proposal for their idea.
-Students who have been evaluated and placed at the Intermediate High to Advanced Low on the
OPI level of English proficiency.
-Students with various L1 (native languages) and communicate mainly with the common English
language.
-Students would be able to infer and gather context to be fairly competent in informal
conversation; however, in reading literature or participating in academic courses struggle with
complex phrasing and terminology.
-Students need exposure to various literacies to practice writing in English.
Curricular Standards:
-Students who have been evaluated and placed at the Intermediate High to Advanced Low on the
OPI level of English proficiency.
-Students with various L1 (native languages) and communicate mainly with the common English
language.
-Students would be able to infer and gather context to be fairly competent in informal
conversation; however, in reading literature or participating in academic courses struggle with
complex phrasing and terminology.
-Students need exposure to various literacies to practice reading in English.

Student Learning Objective(s):

Students will be able to draft a proposal (with a cover letter, statement need, and objectives).
Assessment:
Part I: Describe how you will check for student understanding during the lesson. (Formative)

Part II: How will you ask students to demonstrate mastery of the student learning objective(s)?
Attach a copy of any assessment materials you will use, along with assessment criteria/rubric.
(Formative or Summative)
-rubric
Materials/Resources: List the materials you will use in each learning activity including any
technological resources.

The Lesson
Initiation:
Part I -Ask students to imagine their friend wrote a letter to them asking for money. Ask students to
consider what the letter would have to include to get them to say yes to the request.
-Show grant proposal video (https://youtu.be/teiFh-XPnl0) and ask what the creators might be
wanting to accomplish. Connect the discussion about grant writing to the project students have
been working on. Emphasize the necessity of being able to present a good proposal for an idea.
Ask students if they would be able to write a proposal for their idea in order to try and get
funding.
Part II
-Tell students that many of their ideas require funding and that in order to receive funding they
must be able to write an effective proposal.
-Say, Today you will need to create a proposal draft for your project idea. I want you to imagine
you are writing to receive grant money to accomplish your plan. What will our proposal need to
include in order to be effective?
Lesson Development:
Directions: You will work in your groups of three to write a draft of a proposal. Each of you will
work on one portion of the proposal. One of you will work on the cover letter, another on the
statement of need and another on the statement of objectives.
Step 1:(10mins)Have students go to the site below to research how to write grant proposals.
http://grantspace.org/tools/knowledge-base/Funding-Research/proposal-writing/grant-proposalsfor-individual-projects
Step 2: (5 mins)Then post the video below about successful grant proposals on the shared class
padlet page for students to watch and discuss with their group.
(https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Video-Foundations-Reveal-What/150527)

Step 3:(3mins)Give students a rubric and allow students to choose the portion of the proposal
they want to write.
Step 4: (30 mins)Students work in their Padlet.com account and in Google Docs creating a draft
and synthesizing their research.
Closure:
Students post their drafts to the class padlet page for peer review during the next class meeting.