THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, ST. AUGUSTINE
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
ENGLISH LESSON PLAN
TEACHER: Hassan Basarally
CLASS: 2.5
ESTIMATED DURATION: 1 Period: 40 minutes
DATE:
THEME/TOPIC: Round characters
CURRICULUM STANDARD: Literary Appreciation:
Development-determine reasons for character change
Literary
Element-Character
TEACHING POINT: A round character goes through a change during the story.
PURPOSE / RATIONALE: Round characters change in the story, causing the plot to
develop and progress. Students need to track these changes as they affect the nature of
the conflict. In story writing, round characters allows for the plot to be extended and
developed.
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE / PERFORMANCE:
antagonist
short story, characters, protagonist,
ANTICIPATED DIFFICULTY: Students may not notice subtle changes in a character
TECHNOLOGIES AND RESEARCH RESOURCES:
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White board, marker, eraser
Extract from “Drunkard of the River” by Michael Anthony
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INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES (CLASSIFICATION)
Students will / should be able to:
1. Define a round character. (cognitive)
2. Identify the round character in a text.
(cognitive)
ASSESSMENT
Formative:
Students will describe round characters
from movies.
Summative:
3. Demonstrate a Freeze Frame of the point in the Students will explain how a character is
plot where the round character undergoes a
round in a given extract.
change. (psychomotor)
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PROCEDURE
SET INDUCTION: The teacher writes the name ‘Two Face’ on the board and asks the
students to say what they know about this character. Students are asked to explain why
this character changed in the movie ‘Batman’.
TEACHING STRATEGIES/METHODS/ACTIVITIES
LEARNING STRATEGIES/ACTIVITIES
1. The teacher asks the students to give other
characters they know of that went through a
major change.
2. The teacher explains that such characters are
round.
3. The teacher distributes an extract from
“Drunkard of the River”.
4. Students are asked to read the extract and
identify the character that is round.
5. The teacher asks students to share their
answers and writes the different reasons on the
board.
6. Students are asked to write a few sentences
explaining why the character is round based on
what was written on the board and discussed.
7. Students are places in groups of 2-3 and asked
to do a Freeze Frame of the part of the story
where the round character undergoes a
change.
Speaking and listening
Speaking and listening
Writing
Freeze Frame
CLOSURE: The teacher provides a list of characters from comic books and asks
individual students to pick the round characters and explain their answer
LESSON EVALUATION: Students written responses are collected by the teacher.
CONTINGENCY PLAN:
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TEACHER’S EVALUATION OF THE LESSON:
SUPERVISOR’S COMMENTS:
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