Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher
Name:
Coach Grimes
Unit Name:
Unit 6 – Literary
Research
Course:
English III
Dates:
3/30 – 4/3
Modified schedule – See periods 1 & 3
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: SWBAT revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve specific rhetorical purposes,
consistency of tone, and logical organization by rearranging words, sentences, and paragraphs, and by
adding transitional words and phrases; edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling.
TEKS/AP/Standards: Reading-ELA.11.Fig19A/ELA.11.Fig19B/ELA.11.2C/ELA.11.8A/ELA.11.11A
WritingELA.11.16A/ELA.11.16B/ELA.11.16C/ELA.11.16D/ELA.11.16E/ELA.11.16
F/ELA.11.17B/ELA.11.18A
How will we learn it?
Agenda:
1. Talk about common mistakes made in rough drafts
2. Return rough drafts for revising and editing
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Revised paragraphs
Checks for Understanding: Teacher will answer clarifying questions as asked
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Pen/Pencil, English Literature Book, Vocabulary Folder or file,
Laptop
What do I need to do before next class?
Homework:
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: SWBAT analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a
view or comment on the human condition. SWBAT relate the main ideas found in a literary work to its
historical and cultural setting.
TEKS/AP/Standards: Reading-ELA.11.Fig19A/ELA.11.Fig19B/ELA.11.2C/ELA.11.8A/ELA.11.11A
WritingELA.11.16A/ELA.11.16B/ELA.11.16C/ELA.11.16D/ELA.11.16E/ELA.11.16
F/ELA.11.17B/ELA.11.18A
How will we learn it?
Agenda: Learning Activities –
1. Warm up – new vocabulary: intrepid, ostentatious, perfidious, sagacity, suppress
2. Works cited page
3. Review final draft requirements
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Completed sentence on discussion board
Checks for Understanding: Discussion as students post responses
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Pen/Pencil, English Literature Book, Laptop, vocabulary
notebook or file on laptop
What do I need to do before next class?
Homework:
Complete poem if not done in class (due Friday)
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: SWBAT revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve specific rhetorical purposes,
consistency of tone, and logical organization by rearranging words, sentences, and paragraphs, and by
adding transitional words and phrases; edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling.
TEKS/AP/Standards: Reading-ELA.11.Fig19A/ELA.11.Fig19B/ELA.11.2C/ELA.11.8A/ELA.11.11A
WritingELA.11.16A/ELA.11.16B/ELA.11.16C/ELA.11.16D/ELA.11.16E/ELA.11.16F/EL
A.11.17B/ELA.11.18A
How will we learn it?
Agenda:
1. Talk about common mistakes made in rough drafts
2. Return rough drafts for revising and editing
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Revised paragraphs
Checks for Understanding: Teacher will answer clarifying questions as asked
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop, pen/paper, literature book
What do I need to before next class?
Homework:
Follow Up/HW – Vocabulary test 3/14
Daily Objective: SWBAT answer open-ended research questions and engage in in-depth research on a
complex, multi-faceted topic. SWBAT summarize text in a manner that captures the author’s viewpoint,
its main ideas, and its elements without taking a position or expressing an opinion.
TEKS/AP/Standards: Reading-ELA.11.Fig19A/ELA.11.Fig19B/ELA.11.2C/ELA.11.8A/ELA.11.11A
WritingELA.11.16A/ELA.11.16B/ELA.11.16C/ELA.11.16D/ELA.11.16E/ELA.11.16
F/ELA.11.17B/ELA.11.18A
How will we learn it?
Agenda:
School Holiday
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
Checks for Understanding:
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Pen/Pencil, Laptop, literature book
What do I need to before next class?
Homework:
Follow Up/HW – Work on research