Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
Course:
Koneschik
Pre-AP
Unit Name and #:
Dates:
Cycle 4
1/12-1/16
Monday
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to make inferences about the text based on my knowledge and
understanding of dramatic conventions and character development.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual
evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Freewrite: How do relationships shape a person’s values?
2. Characterization activity for Boys of Verona.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Work with partners to characterize and find evidence to support the
assertion. Groups will share descriptions and text evidence with class.
Checks for Understanding: Think, pair, share. Cold Calls
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Literature book, Boys of Verona handout.
Tuesday
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to make inferences about the text based on my knowledge and
understanding of dramatic conventions and character development.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual
evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Grammar Do-First
2. Read/Listen to Act 1. Scenes 2 and 3.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Guided Notes
Checks for Understanding: Think, Pair, Share. Students respond to guided questions,
compare notes with partners, and then share with the class through cold calls.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Literature book, guided notes
Wed/Thur
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: finish notes for Scene 3.
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to make inferences about the text based on my knowledge and
understanding of dramatic conventions and character development.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual
evidence to support understanding.
Daily Objective 2: I will be able to analyze two film versions of a dramatic work and explain
how they are similar and different from a traditional Shakespearean format for drama.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.2B Analyze the influence of mythic, classical, and traditional
literature on 20th and 21st century literature.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Read/Listen to Act 1. Scenes 4 and 5: emphasis on the Queen Mab speech and its purpose
2. Introduce Promptbook major grade (due one week from the day they receive it)
3. Freewriting activity: creating the source of the conflict.
4. Show the Zefferelli and Lurhmann introductions to both films
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Guided Notes with textual evidence.
Checks for Understanding: Cold Calls
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Literature book, Guided Notes
Friday
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to analyze the wording of scenes from a dramatic work and
connect them to song lyrics that match the mood/tone of that scene.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.1B Analyze textual context to distinguish between the denotative
and connotative meaning of words
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Students receive PowerUp laptops today.
2. Discussion Thread on The Hub: Song Lyrics Activity
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Students will post their responses to a discussion thread that I will be
able to read.
Checks for Understanding: Students will be required to respond to others at least once.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none