Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
DeGroodt, Falcon
Unit Name and #:
Course:
AP Lit
Dates:
Poetry; “The Masculine
Identity”
Feb 2-6
Monday
Weekly Objective: To understand the three different modes of writing on the AP Lit exam, to practice
each type using a representative, complex AP work, and to teach the rest of the class to analyze
critically.
TEKS/AP/Standards:
o To consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller scale
elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.
o To study representative works from various genres and periods (from the to the twentieth
century) and to know a few works extremely well.
Learning Activities:
o Student-led presentations: Ch. 6-7 and Ch. 8-9 Group Presentations [Poetry, Prose, or O-E
mode of analysis]
o The first chapter’s analysis will be modeled and guided; the second chapter’s analysis will be
independent practice for the rest of the class.
o AP exam MC practice (in the event there is time left after the presentations)
Major Upcoming Assessment: No majors left in 4th cycle; Things Fall Apart groups [minor grade]
Checks for Understanding: Writing reponses (poetry, prose or O-E) during presentations/projects
Materials: Paper, pen/pencil, handouts, book, LAPTOPS
Tuesday
Follow Up/HW: Read Part 3 of Things Fall Apart by Monday, February 9
Weekly Objective: To understand the three different modes of writing on the AP Lit exam, to practice
each type using a representative, complex AP work, and to teach the rest of the class to analyze
critically.
TEKS/AP/Standards:
o To consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller scale
elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.
o To study representative works from various genres and periods (from the
to the twentieth century) and to know a few works extremely well.
Learning Activities:
 Student-led presentations: Ch. 10-11 and Ch. 12-13 Group Presentations [Poetry,
Prose, or O-E mode of analysis]
 The first chapter’s analysis will be modeled and guided; the second chapter’s analysis
will be independent practice for the rest of the class.
 AP exam MC practice (in the event there is time left after the presentations)
Major Upcoming Assessment: No majors left in 4th cycle; Things Fall Apart groups [minor grade]
Checks for Understanding: Writing reponses (poetry, prose or O-E) during presentations/projects
Materials: Paper, pen/pencil, handouts, book, LAPTOPS
Follow Up/HW: Read Part 3 of Things Fall Apart by Monday
Weekly Objective: To understand the three different modes of writing on the AP Lit exam, to practice
each type using a representative, complex AP work, and to teach the rest of the class to analyze
critically.
Wed/Thur
TEKS/AP/Standards:
 To consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller scale
elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.
o To study representative works from various genres and periods (from the sixteenth to the
twentieth century) and to know a few works extremely well.
Learning Activities:
 Student-led presentations: Ch. 14-15 and Ch. 16-17 Group Presentations [Poetry, Prose, or O-E
mode of analysis]
 The first chapter’s analysis will be modeled and guided; the second chapter’s analysis will be
independent practice for the rest of the class.
 AP exam MC practice (in the event there is time left after the presentations)
Major Upcoming Assessment: No majors left in 4th cycle; Things Fall Apart groups [minor grade]
Checks for Understanding: Writing reponses (poetry, prose or O-E) during presentations/projects
Materials: Paper, pen/pencil, handouts, book, LAPTOPS
Follow Up/HW: Read Part 3 of Things Fall Apart by Monday
Weekly Objective: To understand the three different modes of writing on the AP Lit exam, to practice
each type using a representative, complex AP work, and to teach the rest of the class to analyze
critically.
Friday
TEKS/AP/Standards:
o To consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller scale
elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.
o To study representative works from various genres and periods (from the sixteenth to the
twentieth century) and to know a few works extremely well.
Learning Activities:
o Student-led presentations: Ch. 18-19 Group Presentation [Poetry, Prose, or O-E mode of
analysis]
o The first chapter’s analysis will be modeled and guided; the second chapter’s analysis will be
independent practice for the rest of the class.
o AP exam MC practice (in the event there is time left after the presentations)
Major Upcoming Assessment: No majors left in 4th cycle; Things Fall Apart groups [minor grade]
Checks for Understanding: Writing reponses (poetry, prose or O-E) during presentations/projects
Materials: Paper, pen/pencil, handouts, book, LAPTOPS
Follow Up/HW: Read Part 3 of TFA by Monday; presentations continue