Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
Course:
Stavinoha
Mod English 1, 2, 3, 4
Unit Name and #:
Dates:
Week 20
1/12/15 – 1/16/15
Once or twice weekly, students work on our computer-based Reading Smart program. Skills
strengthened in this program include:
VOCABULARY:
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Use reference aids: dictionaries
Rely on context to determine meaning
Word analysis: roots and affixes
Word analysis: Greek and Latin roots and affixes
Identify and use multiple meaning words
Distinguish between denotative and connotative meanings
Sight word and sight word vocabulary
Cognates
Identify and interpret figurative language
Figurative language: idioms/phrasal verbs
Figurative language: analogies
READING COMPREHENSION:
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Identify main idea
Identify supporting details
Identify implied main idea
Identify stated main idea
Support responses with textual evidence
Distinguish between fact and opinion
Draw inferences: conclusions/generalizations
Predict outcomes
Organize text: cause and effect
Identify author’s purpose
Paraphrase or summarize text
Monday
1/12/15
What are we learning?
Daily Objectives:
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#2
Students will make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support their
understanding.
Students will analyze the way in which a work of fiction is shaped by the narrator's
point of view.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
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Students will read short passages, make inferences, and use textual evident to
support their understanding.
Students will read short passages, determine the narrator’s point of view, and
Identify how they determined the point of view.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Students will complete exit tickets containing an inference passage
and a point of view passage with their answers on them.
Checks for Understanding: Teacher will monitor students as they work to determine their
level of understanding.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Inference passages, point of view passages, quiz study guide
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Students need to study their quiz study guide for quiz
Wednesday/Thursday.
1/13/15
What are we learning?
Daily Objectives:
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#2
Tuesday
#3
Students will make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support their
understanding.
Students will analyze the way in which a work of fiction is shaped by the narrator's
point of view.
Students will determine the themes in various fictional passages.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
Activities for Objectives #1 and #2 : The class as a whole will review for Inference and Point
of View QUIZ WEDNESDAY (1/14/15) AND THURSDAY (1/15/15).
Activities for Objective #3:
1. Students will take notes on a PowerPoint presentation that explains theme.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Formative at this time.
Checks for Understanding: Students will read short reading passages to determine theme.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Notes on theme and worksheets with passages.
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Study for POINT OF VIEW and INFERENCE QUIZ Wednesday, Thursday.
1/7/15 and 1/8/15
What are we learning?
TEKS Daily Objectives:
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Students will make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support their
understanding ON A QUIZ.
Students will determine narrator point of view in a passage and use textual evidence
to support their understanding ON A QUIZ.
Students will determine unknown vocabulary using context clues.
Students will determine themes in reading passages.
Students will learn the following academic vocabulary to prepare for the story “The
Scarlet Ibis” which they will begin reading next week: context, interpret, reveal,
Significant, and tradition.
Wed/Thur
How will we learn it?
Students will work with short passages to determine theme.
Students will work with unknown vocabulary in sentences to use context clues to define the
unknown word.
Student will be explicitly taught the academic vocabulary.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Quiz today over inferences and point of view.
Checks for Understanding: Teacher will monitor as the students work on theme packets and
vocabulary in context paperwork.
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: Students will receive their laptops and begin working on a Web Quest for
the story “The Scarlet Ibis.”
Friday
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities: Web Quest
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Formative at this time.
Checks for Understanding: Ensure students know what is expected (1) with all computer
assignments and (2) with this particular Web Quest.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Computers and Web Quest assignment
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: ALL STUDENTS MUST CHARGE COMPUTERS PRIOR TO COMING TO CLASS.