Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
Adebo
Unit Name and #:
Unit 5: The Joy Luck
Club
Course:
English II Prep
Dates:
January 12-16, 2015
Monday
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: The student will read and make complex inferences about a text. The student will
edit a passage for mechanics, usage, grammar, and spelling errors.
TEKS/AP/Standard: ELA.10.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual
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evidence to support understanding. ELA.10.5A Analyze isolated scenes or chapters and their
contribution to the success of the plot as a whole in a variety of works of fiction. ELA.10.5B
Analyze differences in the characters’ moral dilemmas in works of fiction across different
countries or cultures.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Warm-Up: MUGS (mechanics, usage, grammar, spelling)
2. Complete Chapter 3&4 study guide
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Study guide, JLC unit test, MUGS Monday, JLC project, Timed Writing,
Vocab/Literary terms quest
Checks for Understanding: Stopping at various points in the chapters to answer study guide questions
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: MUGS warmup, study guide chapters 3&4, JLC novels, pen/pencil
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: 2 post over “Communicating in different languages” due at 4pm
Tuesday
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: The student will write an engaging poem about their culture
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.10.14B Write a poem using a variety of poetic techniques (e.g.,
structural elements, figurative language) and a variety of poetic forms (e.g., sonnets,
ballads). ELA.10.13D Edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling.
How will we learn it?
Tuesday
Learning Activities:
1. Revising and Editing
2. “Where I’m from Poem”- ** Two Minor Grades**
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Where I’m from Poem, Timed Writing, JLC Project
Checks for Understanding: None – teacher will be out today. Feedback will be provided through the
graded work
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Revising and Editing passage, pen or pencil, black piece of paper, and Where I’m From
template
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Post 3 due (Two post) over “Honoring your family” due by 4pm
Wed/Thur
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: The student will read and make complex inferences about a text. The student will
edit a passage for mechanics, usage, grammar, and spelling errors.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA 10.1B Analyze textual context (within a sentence and in larger
sections of text) to distinguish between the denotative and connotative meanings of
words.
S ELA.10.1C Infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies
and other word relationships. ELA.10.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use
textual evidence to support understanding. ELA.10.5A Analyze isolated scenes or chapters
and their contribution to the success of the plot as a whole in a variety of works of fiction.
ELA.10.5B Analyze differences in the characters’ moral dilemmas in works of fiction across
different countries or cultures.
Wed/Thur
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. WARM UP: Revising and Editing –Read or review “The Rules of the Game” and complete
graphic organizer comparing and contrasting Waverly’s victories with her mother’s victories.
2. Vocabulary development practice – analyze the denotations and connotations of words and
identify literary devices in fiction text
3. Finish going over and reading chapter 3 “The Red Candle”
4. Break up into rotating circles and starting reading 4,5,6, and 7
5. Each group will get a chapter to read and answer questions
6. Go over the answers as a class
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Vocab/Lit/ Comp Quest, Study guide, JLC Project, Timed Writing, JLC Unit Test
Checks for Understanding: Students will come to me to check their answers once all questions are
filled in
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Vocab/ lit terms #2, pencil/pen, copies of The Joy Luck Club
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Post 4 due (Two post) over “Developing your identity” due by 4pm
Friday
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: The student will POWER UP!!
TEKS/AP/Standards: - Acquire laptop, log on to the network, sync to OneDrive, explore the
HUB
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
Friday
1. Begin PowerUp deployment and presentation
2. Exit Ticket – students submit a word document containing their name and class period to an
assignment in the HUB, and save that word document to their OneDrive account
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Turned in HUB assignment
Checks for Understanding: Ask and answer questions as needed, exit ticket
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Post 5 due (Two post) over “Trying to feel like you belong in your family” due by
4pm, Study for Vocab/ Lit/ Comp Quest on the block day, and Project dues the 20th