Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
Travis Koneschik
Dates:
Week 4: Monday, March 9th- Friday, March 13th
English I Prep
Periods: 4, 5 & 6
Unit: Cycle 5
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to effectively organize an
expository essay and make sure it has all necessary
content components.
Monday
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.15A.v Write an analytical essay
of sufficient length that includes relevant information.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Grammar Warm Up: “Longer Lunch, Please!”
2. Expository Essay Outline review
3. Trade/Label/Score Expository Essay rough drafts
English I PreAP
Periods: 1, 2, & 7
Unit: Cycle 5
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to effectively organize an expository
essay and make sure it has all necessary content components.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.15A.v Write an analytical essay of sufficient
length that includes relevant information.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Grammar Warm Up: “Longer Lunch, Please!”
2. Expository Essay Outline review
3. Trade/Label/Score Expository Essay rough drafts
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: “Longer Lunch, Please!” will be for a grade.
Assessment Methods: “Longer Lunch, Please!” will be for a
grade.
Checks for Understanding: Think/Pair/Share for the Essay Outline
Checks for Understanding: Think/Pair/Share for the Essay
Outline
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: folder, book, pencil
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: folder, book, pencil
*No homework
*No homework
What are we learning?
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to effectively organize an
expository essay and make sure it has all necessary
content components.
Daily Objective: I will be able to effectively organize an expository
essay and make sure it has all necessary content components.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.15A.v Write an analytical essay
of sufficient length that includes relevant information.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.15A.v Write an analytical essay of sufficient
length that includes relevant information.
How will we learn it?
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Warm-up: Expository Essay Outline review
2. Guided Expository Essay practice (28 minute essay)
3. Trade/Label/Score essay
Learning Activities:
1. Warm-up: Expository Essay Outline review
2. Guided Expository Essay practice (28 minute essay)
3. Trade/Label/Score essay
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Tuesday
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Students will use the Expository
Essay rubric to grade each other’s expository essays.
Checks for Understanding: For the review, I will Cold Call
students to describe the essay-writing steps. I will be
going around offering feedback as they write.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: folder, book, pencil
Assessment Methods: Students will use the Expository Essay rubric to
grade each other’s expository essays.
Checks for Understanding: For the review, I will Cold Call students to
describe the essay-writing steps. I will be going around offering
feedback as they write.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: folder, book, pencil
*No homework
*No homework
What are we learning?
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to effectively organize an
expository essay and make sure it has all necessary
content components.
Daily Objective: I will be able to effectively organize an expository
essay and make sure it has all necessary content components.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.15A.v Write an analytical essay
of sufficient length that includes relevant information.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.15A.v Write an analytical essay of sufficient
length that includes relevant information.
How will we learn it?
Wednesday/Thursday
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Warm-up: Expository Essay Outline review
2. Guided Expository Essay practice (28 minute essay)
3. Trade/Label/Score essay
4. Grade Tracking Log on the HUB – convert grades so far
into STAAR equivalents, for a prediction of STAAR
performance.
5. Students will set goals for STAAR performance.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
The practice essay will be for a grade.
Checks for Understanding:
Students will label the parts of their essay. (topic
sentences, concrete details, and commentaries)
Learning Activities:
1. Warm-up: Expository Essay Outline review
2. Guided Expository Essay practice (28 minute essay)
3. Trade/Label/Score essay
4. Grade Tracking Log on the HUB – convert grades so far into STAAR
equivalents, for a prediction of STAAR performance.
5. Students will set goals for STAAR performance.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
The practice essay will be for a grade.
Checks for Understanding:
Students will label the parts of their essay. (topic sentences, concrete
details, and commentaries)
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: grammar handout, book, pencil
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: grammar handout, book, pencil
*No homework
*No homework
What are we learning?
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to effectively structure and
write an expository essay.
Daily Objective: I will be able to effectively structure and write an
expository essay.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.15A.iii Write an analytical essay
of sufficient length that includes a controlling idea or
thesis.
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?
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. STAAR Expository Essay: Major Grade
Learning Activities:
1. STAAR Expository Essay: Major Grade
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Friday
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
This essay will be graded on the STAAR rubric for essays.
Checks for Understanding:
Students are being tested based on previous objectives
mastered and will be responsible for assessing their own
level of mastery during the timed writing test.
Assessment Methods:
This essay will be graded on the STAAR rubric for essays.
Checks for Understanding:
Students are being tested based on previous objectives mastered and
will be responsible for assessing their own level of mastery during the
timed writing test.
What do I need to be successful?
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: pencil and essay provided by me
Materials: pencil and essay provided by me
*No homework
*No homework