Lesson Plan
Goal Setting:
*What content standard will
this lesson address?
*What Common Core /Essential
Standard(s) are addressed?
*How will you address Common
Core Information & Technology
Standards?
*What should students
know/under-stand/be able to
do at the end of this lesson?
(student-friendly goal/target)
7th Grade ELA – Elements of Comedy / Using Alice Programming for Narrative
Dawn Perez – Buncombe County Schools
Overview –
Students will view an Alice animated World as a means of
demonstrating various elements of comedy. Following the
demonstration, students will begin own comedic “world”
Learning Targets:
I can identify various comedic elements used in narrative
I can identify use of irony and allusion within a narrative
I can utilize Alice to develop a comedic narrative using at least
two different elements of comedy
CCSS ELAReading 7.1 Cite textual evidence for inference
Reading 7.2 Central themes/use of allusion/irony
Reading 7.3 Individuals/events/ideas
Writing 7.3 Write narrative
Speaking/Listening 7.5 Use media
Information and Technology Essential Standards
7.TT1-Select appropriate technology tools to design and present
information effectively
CCSS Math
Math 7.2 – Proportions/ratios
Math 7.4 – Expressions and Equations
Math 7.5 - Geometry
Pre-Instruction:
What strategies will I use to
engage students in critical
thinking in order to connect to
or provide prior knowledge?
(anticipation guide, circle map,
etc.) Circle the level of
thinking required in activity.
What are some movies you have seen that you would consider to
be comedies?
What makes them “funny”?
Lesson Plan
7th Grade ELA – Elements of Comedy / Using Alice Programming for Narrative
Dawn Perez – Buncombe County Schools
Comedy as it relates to Shakespeare .
During Instruction:
What strategies will I use to
Where’s the humor?
engage students in critical
- Mistaken identity
thinking as they
- Plays on words
- Irony of setting/character
read/watch/listen to the
- Misunderstanding of Actions
content material? How will they
- Audience “in on the joke”
“hold” their thinking? (Thinking
Map, note-taking organizer,
Review first four elements of programming- Choice of world
etc.) Circle the level of
- Placement of object
thinking required in activity.
- Movement of Object
- Add dialogue
Post-Instruction:
What strategies will I use to
engage students in critical
thinking as they process their
content material? (turn & talk,
demonstration, return to circle
map or anticipation guide, exit
slip, etc.) Circle the level of
thinking required in activity.
Based on the Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, redesign or
develop at least one scene to include characters, dialogue and
movement.
Design storyboard of scene..
Create new Alice World to share
Develop rubric for audience to compare/contrast original with
redesigned world.