Literacy Lesson Plans
K. Nicholson
Week 4: September 7-11, 2009
Monday
Objective
Standards Covered
Bell Work
Assessment of Prior
Knowledge
Teacher Instructional
Strategies/ Student
Activities
NO SCHOOL
Labor Day
6th Grade Plans 7th & 8th Grade Plans Plans for all grade levels
9/7
Tuesday
9/8
 Intro Tree Map/
Catagorizing/ Use
grocery list
 Classify common
character traits/use
motives to help
 Identify features of a
cultural era: 1960s using
a variety of sources
Catagorizing
Lit Lingo/ Conference
Discuss Lit Log- share
additions
Author’s Circle
 Start with Trueman
questions…how can
these be answered? Have
they been answered yet? Who is
the best source?
 Classify Character
Traits that exist in
Shawn, Dad, Mom,
Siblings (knowledgeable,
caring, sympathetic…etc.)
 Read Chapter 8
 Read Aloud: Colored
Water-(1st half use
pictures for analysis)
Add to Class Map Classify mood of pics
 Intro Watsons Go to
Birmingham-1963
Wednesday
9/9
Thursday
9/10
Friday
9/11
 Tree Map/ Catagorizing/  Tree Map/ Catagorizing/  Tree Map/ Catagorizing/
Use grocery list
Use grocery list
Use grocery list
 Classify common
 Classify common
 Classify common
character traits/use
character traits/use
character traits/use
motives to help
motives to help
motives to help
 Identify features of a
 Identify features of a
 Identify features of a
cultural era: 1960s using
cultural era: 1960s using
cultural era: 1960s using
a variety of sources
a variety of sources
a variety of sources
Catagorizing
Lit Lingo/ Conference
Discuss Lit Log-share
additions
 Recap the happenings of
Stuck in Neutral & how
group reading affects us.
 Predict outcomes for
Shawn
 Classify Shawn’s
Thoughts-how do we
know?
 Read Chapter 9
 Read Aloud: Colored
Water- (2nd half use
speech for analysis) Add
to Class Map
 WGTB- Ch, 2 Classify
the character’s traits we
see in Byron, Kenny,
and Dad
Catagorizing
Lit Lingo/ Conference
Lit Log Museum- all
members have an entry
to show-museum style
 Recap the happenings of
Stuck in Neutral
 Find indicators of
characterization that
exist within ourselves as
we classify those of
Shawn
 Read Chapter 10
 RA: Non Fiction Piece:
Newspaper Article
 WGTB- Ch. 3
 Compare and Contrast
yourself with a
character based on your
tree map of yourself
Catagorizing
Lit Lingo/ Conference
Lit Log Celebration of a
Writer’s Life
 Create Tree Map &
Take Quiz via Activote
(weekly assessment)
 Recap the happenings of
Stuck in Neutral
 Read Chapter 11
 RA: Non Fiction Piece:
Newspaper Article
 WGTB- Ch. 4
(WGTB)
Closure
Homework
Notes/Reflection
Review
Reading Progress Today
with Exit Slip Strategy
Review 60’s knowledge
with Exit Slip Strategy
Writer’s Journal
Review
Reading Progress Today
with Exit Slip Strategy
Review 60’s knowledge
with Exit Slip Strategy
Writer’s Journal
Review
Reading Progress Today
with Exit Slip Strategy
Review 60’s knowledge
with Exit Slip Strategy
Writer’s Journal
Review
Reading Progress Today
with Exit Slip Strategy
Review 60’s knowledge
with Exit Slip Strategy
Writer’s Journal