Potential Vacabulary Lesson Plan

My potential vocabulary lesson for the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor, would be for a 5th or 6th grade class. The goal of the lesson is for each student to learn new words and in the process enhance their vocabulary. Going into the lesson I would expect that each student is able to read the book and to find vocabulary that they need help with learning. If a student is unable to read the book I would look to make necessary adjustments to the lesson for that student. For each assignment within the lesson the students will read two chapters paying attention to not only the story, but also the vocabulary that the author uses. To ensure that the students are doing this, they will have to come to school with two or three words in the writing that they didn’t know and had to look up in the dictionary to find the meaning. Also, the students will have to bring to class two or three words that they didn’t initially know while reading but were able to figure out the word’s definition based on its use in the contest of the story. As a class, students will share the words with each other and we will make a master list of the vocabulary words. This will enable the students to teach each other and work together, hopefully learning new words in the process.