Name Mr.Brown Date Oct. 27, 2013 Length of Lesson Six WeeksContent Area English 12 updated this week:
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LESSON TOPIC:English Poetry and the Middle Ages:
Geoffrey Chaucer and “The Canterbury Tales”.
Ongoing Sr. Project
BIG IDEAS:
(Content standards, assessment anchors, eligible content) objectives, and skill focus)
CC1.2.12F-Analyzing and evaluating the impact of word choice on meaning and tone.
CC.1.2.12C-Tracking details about people, events, and ideas that develop the set of ideas or sequence of events.
CC1.2.12AUndertanding the development of themes and central ideas of the course of the text.
CC12.12E - Recognizing function of language in different contexts.
CC.1.4.12I-Recognizing and addressing alternate or opposing claims and their relationship to stated position, argument or claim.
CC.1.4.12T Revising and evaluating what is needed to strenghten writing.
CC.12.W.8 Avoiding plagiarism and follwing a standard format for citation.
CC.1.4.12F, LR, X-Foundational grammar should be taught in the context of reading writing and speaking.
UNDERSTANDING GOALS (CONCEPTS):
Students will understand:
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Essential content, literary elements and devices inform meaning
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Textual structure, features and organization inform meaning
• Focus, content, organization, style, and conventions work together to impact writing quality
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: • How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
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What role does writing play in our lives?
How do we develop into effective writers?
To what extent does the writing process contribute to the quality of writing?

VOCABULARY: solicitous adj. full of concern estimable adj. deserving of esteem discreet adj. having or showing careful judgment in speech and action disdainful adj. feeling or showing contempt prevarication
STUDENT OBJECTIVES (COMPETENCIES/OUTCOMES):
Students will be able to:
• Identify and evaluate essential content between and among various text types
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the author’s use of literary devices in various genre
• Analyze and evaluate author’s/authors’ use of literary elements within and among genres
• Analyze and evaluate author’s/authors’ use of conflict, theme and /or point of view within and among texts
• Evaluate the characteristics of various genre (e.g. fiction and nonfiction forms of narrative, poetry, drama and essay) to determine how the form relates to purpose.
• Use and cite evidence from texts to make assertions, inferences, generalizations, and to draw conclusions
• Identify the use of bias, stereotype, and propaganda where present
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the author’s use of literary devices in various genre
• Analyze and evaluate author’s/authors’ use of literary elements within and among genres
• Summarize, draw conclusions, and make generalizations from a variety of mediums
• Develop new and unique insights based on extended understanding derived from critical examinations of text(s)-
Summarize class readings.
-Predict outcomes.
-Participate in reading aloud in the classroom.
-Researching a topic.
PERFORMANCE TASK:. Characterization analysis,
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS:
#1. Exit Tickets modernize story elements, create a pilgrim, etc.connect the text to a historical facts.
Write rough draft of Sr. Project
#2. Thumbs Up
#3. Pre-Assessment
Others:
INSTRUCTIONAL
PROCEDURES:
Active Engagements used:
#1. Note-Taking
#2. Summarizing
Others:
Describe usage: weekly
Scaffolding used:
#1. Build Vocabulary
#2 . K-W-L
Others: Historical Overview
Describe usage: beginning of the week and the end of the unit, with reinforcement througout.
MATERIALS AND
RESOURCES:
INTERVENTIONS:
-Glencoe Literature
-“The Prologue”
-“The Pardoner’s Tale”
-“The Wife of Bath’s
Tale”
-Notebook/folder
Sr. Project Notes etc.
"Get on the Bus" Film by
Spike Lee
-Video of Canterbury
Tales
CONTENT AREA
READING:
Canterbury Tales in the
-Additional time
-Appropriately modified assignments
ASSIGNMENTS:
-Reading Log/Summary
Worksheets
-Literary Analysis
-Worksheets
-Short Essays
-Vocabulary

Other techniques used:
MINI LESSON:
-Find and explain the author’s use of literary terms within a text
-Compare/contrast a film adaptation of the literary work with the original text
-Group Review/Analysis
-Analyze the author’s use of characterization
-Annotation of a literary work
Glencoe Literature Book