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Lesson Plans
English I
(Repeaters)
Monday, Sept. 28,
2015
Agenda:
1. * Bell-Ringer
#19: Write
down the
lyrics (clean,
please) to your
favorite song.
Then tell me
what you like
most about it.
2. **Pass back
the poetry
worksheet we
completed
with Kings
College. Go
over the poetry
terms once
again.
3. **On You
Tube, pull up
a couple of
favorite songs.
Have students
analyze the
rhyme pattern
and find
evidence of
any of the
poetry terms.
4. **Share
Beyonce’s
lyrics for song
“If I Were a
Boy” and have
students find
poetry
elements
within it.
(Discuss
“Free Verse.”)
5. **SSR and
Reader
Response for
last 20-30
minutes of
class.
Common Core
Targets
covered today:
*Key Ideas and
Details:
CCSS.ELALITERACY.RL.910.1
Cite strong and
thorough textual
evidence to support
analysis of what the
text says explicitly
as well as inferences
drawn from the text.
**CCSS.ELALITERACY.RL.910.7
Analyze the
representation of a
subject or a key
scene in two
different artistic
mediums, including
what is emphasized
or absent in each
treatment (e.g.,
Auden's "Musée des
Beaux Arts" and
Breughel's
Landscape with the
Fall of Icarus).
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textbook and
individual or shared
share poems
writing products,
that focus on
taking advantage of
English I (Repeaters)
alliteration,
technology's capacity
Tues. Oct. 6, 2015
rhyme, and
to link to other
repetition.
information and to
Lesson Plans
Agenda:
display information
Common Core
flexibly and
class:
Targets covered
dynamically.
Computer lab
today:
1. *First half of
to begin major
project: Poetry
Scrapbook.
Students will
work on the
first few pages
of their
scrapbook,
where they will
create lines
with
alliteration,
rhyme, and
repetition.
Then, they will
move on to
bigger
assignments,
such as the
creation of their
own poems.
2. **Last half of
class: We will
open up the
CCSS.ELALITERACY.W.910.4
*Produce clear and
coherent writing in
which the
development,
organization, and
style are appropriate
to task, purpose, and
audience. (Gradespecific expectations
for writing types are
defined in standards
1-3 above.)
** CCSS.ELALITERACY.RL.910.4
Determine the
meaning of words and
phrases as they are
used in the text,
including figurative
and connotative
meanings; analyze the
cumulative impact of
specific word choices
on meaning and tone
(e.g., how the
language evokes a
sense of time and
place; how it sets a
*CCSS.ELA-
formal or informal
LITERACY.W.9-
tone).
10.6
Use technology,
including the
Internet, to produce,
publish, and update
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Lesson Plans
English I
(Repeaters)
Wed. Oct. 7, 2015
Agenda:
1. *Bell-Ringer:
Technique in
poetry:
Analyze
capitalization
and
punctuation
rules in
poetry.
2. **Share
several types
of poems,
including a
ballad: “The
Ballad of
Birmingham”
and an online
song which
meets the
criteria of the
ballad form.
3. **Next, share
a sonnet,
explaining the
14-line
format, set
rhyme
scheme, and
closing 2-line
couplet. Look
at a
Shakespearea
n sonnet.
4. SSR and
Reader
Response for
the
remainder of
class time.
Common Core
Targets covered
today:
* Knowledge of
Language:
CCSS.ELALITERACY.L.910.3
Apply knowledge of
language to
understand how
language functions
in different
contexts, to make
effective choices for
meaning or style,
and to comprehend
more fully when
reading or listening.
**CCSS.ELALITERACY.RL.910.4
Determine the
meaning of words
and phrases as they
are used in the text,
including figurative
and connotative
meanings; analyze
the cumulative
impact of specific
word choices on
meaning and tone
(e.g., how the
language evokes a
sense of time and
place; how it sets a
formal or informal
tone).
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handouts and in
update individual or
the textbook) to
shared writing
study the
products, taking
English I
different
advantage of
Thurs. Oct. 8, 2015
formats and
technology's capacity to
structures, yet
link to other
also to increase
information and to
students’
display information
class: Computer
understanding
flexibly and
Lab: We will be
of themes and
dynamically.
continuing to
underlying
work on our
meanings in the
** CCSS.ELA-
Poetry
poems.
LITERACY.RL.9-10.4
Lesson Plans
Agenda:
1. *First half of
Scrapbook
project today.
Today’s entries
may include a
Common Core
Targets covered
today:
Determine the meaning
of words and phrases as
they are used in the text,
including figurative and
“Concrete
*CCSS.ELA-
connotative meanings;
poem,” a
LITERACY.W.9-10.4
analyze the cumulative
“limerick,” and a
*Produce clear and
impact of specific word
“sonnet.”
coherent writing in
choices on meaning and
Students will
which the development,
tone (e.g., how the
create their own
organization, and style
language evokes a sense
poems and type
are appropriate to task,
of time and place; how it
them up,
purpose, and audience.
sets a formal or
including an
(Grade-specific
informal tone).
appropriate and
expectations for writing
related
types are defined in
illustration per
standards 1-3 above.)
poem.
*CCSS.ELA-
2. **Last half of
LITERACY.W.9-10.6
class: We will
Use technology,
continue to look
including the Internet,
at poems (on
to produce, publish, and
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handouts as
used in the text,
well as in the
including figurative
textbook. We
and connotative
will analyze
meanings; analyze the
lyric poems and
cumulative impact of
Fri. Oct. 8, 2015
narrative
specific word choices
poems, such as
on meaning and tone
Agenda:
“Casey at the
(e.g., how the
Bat.”
language evokes a
Lesson Plans
English I
1. *Bell-Ringer:
Students will
Common Core
watch an
Targets covered
inspirational,
today:
characterbuilding film
* Range of Writing:
clip and
CCSS.ELA-
respond in their
LITERACY.W.9-
journals. Then
10.10
we will respond
Write routinely over
whole class.
extended time frames
2. *SSR and
Reader
(time for research,
reflection, and
Response:
revision) and shorter
Students will
time frames (a single
read quietly for
sitting or a day or
30 minutes.
two) for a range of
Then they will
tasks, purposes, and
write a Reader
audiences.
Response.
3. **Poetry Unit:
We will
continue to look
at a variety of
poems, both on
** CCSS.ELALITERACY.RL.910.4
Determine the
meaning of words and
phrases as they are
sense of time and
place; how it sets a
formal or informal
tone).