Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
Travis Koneschik
Dates:
English I Prep
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
Periods: 4 & 5
Unit: Cycle 4
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to effectively paraphrase a
complex text.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.3A Analyze the effects of
diction and imagery in poetry. (blank verse)
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Complete Promptbook-Major grade.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: I will pick up and grade Promptbook
projects on Block Day
Checks for Understanding: KAHOOTS! This app shows a
“scoreboard” plus how many kids answered for each
answer choice.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop, No Fear Shakespeare book, pen
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Promptbook due on Block Day
Tuesday, January 20th- Friday, January 23, 2015
English I PreAP
Periods: 1, 2, & 7
Unit: Cycle 4
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to effectively paraphrase a complex text.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.3A Analyze the effects of diction and
imagery in poetry. (blank verse)
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
***Turn in Promptbook
1. Recite prologue
2. KAHOOTS Act 1 Review (LAPTOP!)
3. Add soliloquy, pun, aside, paradox, and allusion to our notes packet
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Guided questions notes for Act 2
Checks for Understanding: KAHOOTS! This app shows a “scoreboard”
plus how many kids answered for each answer choice.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop, No Fear Shakespeare book, pen
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: ***Bring promptbook for a late grade if you did not
turn it in today!
BLOCK DAYS: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21st and
THURSDAY, January 22nd
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to formulate an analytical
response using textual evidence from a dramatic work.
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to write an effective essay by including a
thesis and organizational structure.
TEKS/AP/Standards:ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex
inferences about text and use textual evidence to support
understanding.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.15A.iii Write an analytical essay of
sufficient length that includes a controlling idea or thesis.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
***Turn in Promptbook
1. Padlet Do First – review act 1.
2. Read/Listen to Act 2, Prologue – Scene 3
3. STAAR Applied Practice, reading selection 2
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Guided Questions notes.
Checks for Understanding: Think, Pair, followed up with
Cold Calls from each group.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Recite prologue
2. Padlet Do First – review act 1.
3. Read Act 2, Prologue – Scene 3 in small groups.
-add to academic vocabulary notes, and guided questions
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Guided Questions notes
Checks for Understanding: Think, Pair, followed up with Cold Calls
from each group.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop, No Fear Shakespeare book, pen
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop, No Fear Shakespeare book, pen
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW:
***Makeup work must be completed by 4:45pm today if
you want to see it on progress reports!
STAAR Applied Practice, Reading selection 2 due Friday.
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none
Friday, January 23rd
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to decipher word meanings
and textual context in a complex work of drama.
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to identify and analyze the effect of
dramatic conventions and devices.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA. 9.1B Analyze textual context to
distinguish between the denotative and connotative
meanings of words.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.4A Explain how dramatic conventions
enhance drama.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Recite prologue
2. Show Acts 1-3 Test Review Sheet on the HUB
3. Finish Act 2: Scenes 3, 5, and 6 (summarize Scene 4)
-add to academic vocabulary notes as we go
4. Reading Selection #2
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Reading Selection #2 is STAAR
aligned and will be graded.
Checks for Understanding: I will be cold calling on random
students during our reading of the rest of Act 2.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop, No Fear Shakespeare book, pen
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: study for Acts 1-3 Test
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Recite prologue
2. Show Acts 1-3 Test Review Sheet on the HUB
3. Go over graded work
4. Read Finish Act 2. Get to Act 3, Scene 1 if possible.
-add to academic vocabulary notes as we go
5. Pass out Reading Selection #3 for HOMEWORK
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Reading Selection #3 is STAAR aligned and will
be graded.
Checks for Understanding: I will be cold calling on random students
during our reading of Act 3, Scene 1.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop, No Fear Shakespeare book, pen
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW:
 STAAR Reading Selection #3 due Monday
 Study for Acts 1-3 Test