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 MMondaMonday 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