WOODLAND HILLS SECONDARY LESSON PLAN
Name: Johnson
Date: 2/17/15 Length of Lesson: 2 Weeks Content Area: ELA
STAGE I – DESIRED RESULTS
LESSON TOPIC (Module, if applicable):
Wrapping up American Romanticism: A study of authors
and genres across 1800-1860
BIG IDEAS:
(Content standards, assessment anchors, eligible content) objectives, and skill
focus)
Comprehension requires and enhances critical thinking and is
constructed through the intentional interaction between reader and
text
Transcendentalism
Civil War Era
Realism
CC.1.3.11-12.H: Demonstrate knowledge of foundational works of
literature that reflect a variety of genres in the respective major periods
of literature, including how two or more texts from the same period treat
similar themes or topics.
UNDERSTANDING GOALS (CONCEPTS):
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Students will understand: How political values impact the literary world.
Inspirational words may come from varying places.
Deeper meaning can be found in details
How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
VOCABULARY: Words associated with Romanticism.
Spirituals, benevolent, depravity, bondage, freedom,
abolitionism
STUDENT OBJECTIVES (COMPETENCIES/OUTCOMES):
SWBAT:
Identify and evaluate essential content between and among various text
types
Use and cite evidence from texts to make assertions, inferences,
generalizations, and to draw conclusions
STAGE II – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE
PERFORMANCE TASK: Students will identify traits of Civil
War Era Literature.
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: Do Now exercises/ exit slips.
STAGE III: LEARNING PLAN
INSTRUCTIONAL
PROCEDURES:
MATERIALS AND
RESOURCES:
Do Now;
Mini Lesson:
Guided Practice:
Independent Practice:
Summations/Formative Assessments:
Reflections:
Readings from traditional
spirituals, Fredrick Douglass,
Sojourner Truth, selected
Political writings
Do Now:
Reflect upon quotes by Realism
authors. What do these quotes
mean to you?
Why was there a shift from
romanticism writing and realism
writing ?
Notes and handouts for
Realism
Questions/ discussion
questions.
Supplemental readings from
Primary/ Secondary sources.
Mini Lesson: Spirituals
Independent Practice: Individual/
group readings
Comprehension questions
Small group discussions
Summative/ Formative
Assessment:
Quizzes:
Cell phones for instant
research.
INTERVENTIONS:
ASSIGNMENTS:
Large group discussions
Emerson poetry and essays.
Independent reading/ Small
group reflections
Identify elements of Realist
writing.
Do Now reviews
Read and respond to
nonfiction.