Lesson Plans
Subject: English IV
Teacher:
Mr. Morris
Week of: 9-24-12
Standard:
Monday
Measurement
Topic
Benchmark(s)
Common Core
Standard(s)
Learning Target
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Exploring a Photo
Essay
(Activity 1.12)
MLA writing
Workshop
Reading Daze
Digging for Deeper
Meaning
(Activity 1.13)
Intro to Photo Essay
LA.1112.5.1.1
LA.1112.5.2.1
LA.1112.5.2.2
LA.1112.5.2.3
LA.1112.5.2.4
LA.1112.5.2.5
LA.1112.6.3.3
LA.1112.6.4.1
LA.1112.6.2.4
LA. 1112.1.7.1
LA. 1112.1.7.2
LA. 1112.1.7.3
LA. 1112.1.7.4
LA. 1112.1.7.5
LA. 1112.1.5.1
LA.1112.5.1.1
LA.1112.5.2.1
LA.1112.5.2.2
LA.1112.5.2.3
LA.1112.5.2.4
LA.1112.5.2.5
LA.1112.5.1.1
LA.1112.5.2.1
LA.1112.5.2.2
LA.1112.5.2.3
LA.1112.5.2.4
LA.1112.5.2.5
Students will gain an
Understanding of how
to use speaking
strategies effectively
in individual or group
settings that are either
formal or informal.
Students will use a
systematic
and ethical research
process for the
collection, processing,
and presentation of
Information.
Students will gain an
Understanding of how
to read, evaluate, and
analyze written
information for a
variety of purposes
using various reading
strategies and tools.
Students will gain an
understanding of how
to read, evaluate, and
analyze written
information for a
variety of purposes
using various reading
strategies and tools.
Students will gain an
Understanding of how
to use speaking
strategies effectively
in individual or group
settings that are either
formal or informal.
Use details,
illustrations,
analogies, and visual
aids to create
Effective oral
Evaluate the validity
and reliability of
primary and
secondary
Sources.
Determine validity
and reliability of text.
Select materials to
read for pleasure.
Students will gain an
Understanding of how
to use speaking
strategies effectively
in individual or group
settings that are either
formal or informal.
Analyze
organizational
patterns in text.
Use details,
Use details,
illustrations,
analogies, and visual
aids to create
Effective oral
presentations.
Organize, classify,
interpret, and
synthesize research
information.
illustrations,
analogies, and visual
aids to create
Effective oral
presentations.
presentations.
Students will examine
“Digging for deeper
meaning” Activity in
their Springboard
workbooks.
Students will be
introduced to the
Photo Essay
assignment, where
students will create
and present a photo
essay revealing their
perspective (position)
about an issue or topic
of importance to
them.
Communicate
information clearly
using an appropriate
delivery
Method considering
purpose, audience,
occasion and
message.
Integrate a variety of
oral, written, and
technological skills.
Lesson
Students will review
“Exploring
Perspectives in Visual
Art” Activity in their
Springboard
workbooks.
Following the review,
Instructor will
introduce “Exploring
a Photo Essay.”
In this exercise,
students will explore
how photo journalists
construct text to
Use correct internal
and final
documentation to
avoid plagiarism
And understand the
consequences of
unethical research
practices.
Students will review
MLA format for the
completion of their
senior exit projects.
Students will
complete various
writing activities in
their writing with
confidence books.
READING DAZE –
students will read for
25 - 30 minutes and
spend 10 – 15
minutes writing a
synopsis of what they
read in their
notebooks– this can
be new words,
characters, questions,
a summary, or ALL
of these things should
you have the time.
In this exercise,
students will analyze
the tone and rhetorical
strategies in an essay;
create a written text
and then use that text
as the basis for a
visual text; to
construct a mock
convey meaning and
examine how
collections of images
hare assembled to
convey meaning and
point of view.
D
Assessment (D,F,S)
ESE Accommodations:
ESOL Accommodations:
photo essay that
presents a thesis
through visuals.
F
D
F
S