Eastern Alamance High School
Lesson Plan 2012-2013
Teacher: Jennifer Whitt
Department: English
Monday
Common Core/Essential
Standards
LEARNING TARGET
Course: English 2
Tuesday
Semester: Fall
Wednesday
Thursday
Dates: Oct. 15-19
Friday
Reading 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
Reading 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
Speaking/Listening 1, 5
Language 1, 2, 4
Reading 3
Speaking/Listening 1, 2
Language 1, 2, 4
Writing 3, 10
Language 1, 2, 4
To be able to express
knowledge regarding the
Chinese and Asian cultures as
based on literary evidence
To express knowledge
regarding the Chinese and
Asian cultures as based on
literary evidence
To learn roots that make up
English words
To learn roots that make up
English words
To express themselves in
writing (narrative)
To learn how to edit run-on
sentences for proper
grammatical structure
To learn how to edit run-ons
To learn to edit run-ons
To learn basic facts of the
Holocaust
To learn more basic facts of
Holocaust in preparation for
novel
To edit a sentence to create a
compound sentence
To learn basic facts of the
Holocaust
ASSESS/ACTIVATE
PRIOR
KNOWLEDGE(review,
relevance, relate to
objective)
Block: 2,3
Review treatment of women in
Chinese culture, as apparent in
our speaker’s talk and in our
literature we’ve read
Review of Chinese literature
elements
Review components of a
compound sentence
KWL to assess prior
knowledge of Holocaust
To understand how Hitler came
into power and gained so much
control
Review Run-ons: identifying
and correcting
Review aspects of Chinese and
Asian cultures per our study,
speaker, reflection
TEACHER INPUT
(Provide information,
model application of
information)
Reviewing this week’s
vocabulary words
Reviewing important
Holocaust terms/background
info
Latin/Greek Roots Vocab List
4 PowerPoint—notes #1-5
Latin/Greek Roots Vocab List 4
PowerPoint—notes #6-10
Show students examples of
run-on sentences and
demonstrate how to correct the
errors
Model example of “Before the
War” photo activity
Holocaust Basics/Notes/Lit
terms/Important terms
The Rise of Hitler
Holocaust Basics Notes/Lit
terms/Important terms
STUDENT ACTIVE
PARTICIPATION
(Alignment of objective
with activity, teacher
models, student
pairs/groups, independent
practice)
Chinese Literature Test
Chinese Literature Test, part 2
Taking Vocab List 4 notes
Taking Vocab List 4 notes
Journal Writing #20
Identifying and correcting Runon sentences (overhead)
Identifying and correcting Runon sentences/Glencoe p. 123124
Complete review activity with
Vocab List 4
KWL Chart with Holocaust
basics…
Taking Holocaust background
notes
“Before the War” photo activity
with Holocaust Background (in
partners!)
“Hitler’s Rise” article with
questions
Run-ons worksheet p. 95/96
blue workbook
Taking notes on background of
Holocaust in preparation to
begin novel “Night”
Eastern Alamance High School
Lesson Plan 2012-2013
Teacher: Jennifer Whitt
Closure
(Review/Re-teach, Identify
Student Success):
Vocabulary
Department: English
Course: English 2
Semester: Fall
Watch part of film “Memoirs
of a Geisha”
Watch part of film “Memoirs
of a Geisha”
Discuss what we’ve
learned/new knowledge of
Holocaust/debunking myths
Geisha, aphorisms, paradox,
parable, shih poems, songs,
ballads, refrains
Geisha, tone, diction,
aphorisms, paradox, parable,
shih poems, songs, ballads,
refrains
Stereotypes, prejudice,
discrimination, persecution,
genocide, antisemitism
Block: 2,3
Dates: Oct. 15-19
Watch short film “Auschwitz:
If you cried, you died” (30
mins.)
Holocaust, Aryan, concentration
camp, Auschwitz, deportation,
Final Solution, Nazi, Mein
Kampf
Ghetto, scapegoat, swastika,
yellow star, Gestapo,
crematorium, collective
responsibility, selection,
resistance, liberators