Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
DeGroodt, Falcon
Unit Name and #:
Course:
AP Lit
Dates:
Poetry; “The Masculine
Identity”
Jan 26-30
Monday
Daily Objective: To understand the three different modes of writing on the AP Lit exam and to practice
each type using a representative, complex AP work.
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 Review Things Fall Apart group project assignment, groups, presentation dates
o Ch. 1: Poetry Analysis Project Modeling/Guided Practice
o “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats
o Read, annotate, analyze, connect to Ch. 1
o Ch. 2: Prose Analysis Project Modeling/Guided Practice
-Read, render the selection
-Students write a response centered around how diction and syntax characterize the
protagonist
-Teacher shares exemplar, discussion/comparison
Major Upcoming Assessment: Poetry Timed Writing W/Th
Checks for Understanding: Guided practice random checks during poetry and prose analysis
Tuesday
Materials: Paper, pen/pencil, handouts, book
Follow Up/HW: Poetry Timed Writing W/Th; read Part II of Things Fall Apart by Monday, February
2
Daily Objective: To understand the three different modes of writing on the AP Lit exam and to
practice each type using a representative, complex AP work.
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 Finish Ch. 2 Prose Analysis Project Modeling
o Ch. 3: Open-Ended Project Modeling
 Introduce O-E prompt regarding man v. fate conflict in Ch. 3
 Students write responses; teacher shares exemplar; discussion/comparison
Major Upcoming Assessment: Poetry Timed Writing
Checks for Understanding: Guided practice randomizing responses during prose and open-ended
analysis
Materials: Paper, pen/pencil, handouts, book
Follow Up/HW: Poetry Timed Writing W/Th; read Part II of Things Fall Apart by Monday, February 2
Wed/Thur
Daily Objective:
 To compose a poetry analysis essay that centers around a poet’s view of the world and how that
message is conveyed through literary and poetic devices
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:
 Poetry Analysis Essay (“The Hollow Men”)—Timed Writing
 Assisted work time on Things Fall Apart projects—Power Up laptops required!
Major Upcoming Assessment: No majors left in 4th cycle; Things Fall Apart groups [minor grade]
Checks for Understanding: Timed Writing [MAJOR]
Materials: Paper, pen/pencil, handouts, book
Follow Up/HW: Things Fall Apart group presentations begin Friday, January 30; Read Part II of
Things Fall Apart by Monday, February 2
Daily Objective:
 To engage in student-led presentations that will model one of the three modes of analysis on
the AP Lit exam and then ask the class to respond independently in the same mode of analysis
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 Ch. 4-5 Group Presentation [Poetry, Prose, or O-E mode of analysis]
o AP exam MC practice (poetry analysis of “The Writer”)
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
Follow Up/HW: Read Part 2 of TFA by Monday; presentations continue