Westside High School Lesson Plan
Monday 1/12
Teacher Name:
Course:
Harris
Prep
Unit Name and #:
Dates:
Cycle 4
Jan. 12-Jan. 16
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to identify dramatic literary terms and apply them to my own
writing.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA. 9.4A Explain how dramatic conventions enhance drama.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Recite the prologue.
2. Listen to/read Act 1, Scene 3
3. Reading Selection #1
4. Listen to Act 1, Scene 4 and add to notes
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Guided notes will be filled out with textual evidence to ensure correct
examples.
Checks for Understanding:
Completed Notes/Grade for Selection #1
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Textbook, Academic Vocabulary Notes Packet
Tuesday 1/13
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to analyze drama and make inferences about character
development and stage directions.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual
evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Recite prologue.
2. Go over STAAR Reading Selection #1 (#2, #5, and #7- all others in tutorials!)
3. Finish Act 1, Scene 4: emphasis on the Queen Mab speech and it’s purpose
4. Introduce Promptbook major grade
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Students have received “data” in the form of a grade on their first
STAAR reading selection.
Checks for Understanding: We will be going over three major incorrect answers on that
selection.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: pen/pencil, textbook, handouts in folder
Wed. 1/14 /Thurs. 1/15
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to make inferences about the text based on my knowledge and
understanding of dramatic conventions and character development.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual
evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Recite prologue.
2. Read/Listen to Act 1, Scene 5
3. Show the Zefferelli and Lurhmann introductions to both films with compare/contrast chart
4. Guided Work Time: Promptbooks
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Compare/Contrast Chart
Checks for Understanding: Think/Pair/Share for the Compare/Contrast chart
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: pen/pencil, No Fear Shakespeare book
Friday 1/16
What do I need to before next class?
none
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to analyze the wording of scenes from a dramatic work and
connect them to song lyrics that match the mood/tone of that scene.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.1B Analyze textual context to distinguish between the denotative
and connotative meaning of words.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Students receive PowerUp laptops today.
2. Discussion Thread on The Hub: Song Lyrics Activity
****Turn in HW at the beginning of class.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Students will post their responses to a discussion thread that I will be
able to read.
Checks for Understanding: Students will be required to respond to others at least once.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: LAPTOP!
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none