Instructor:
Date:
Title:
Subject:
Kathy Dudley
14 January 2005
Of Mice and Men
Canterbury Tales – Guerrilla Teaching
Purpose: Students display their understanding of medieval society – its art, architecture,
culture and philosophical debates – after a hypertextual or historicist reading of
Chaucer's Tales.
-- Provoke student thought and discussion on human rights during the period
-- Have students research selected topics or those of interest personally to the
student
-- Teach their findings to someone outside of the class
-- Write reflectively, describing the process about the Provoke students to
question and identify the nature of friendship
-- Demonstrate the interdependencies among humans and nature
-- Inspire further inquiry into the writer’s craft
Objectives: SWBAT
1. Describe the behavior and speech Steinbeck ascribes to Lennie that indicate to the
reader that he is mentally retarded
2. Cite the language Steinbeck uses to describe how George feels about Lennie
3
Re-tell the action of the story
4. Define unfamiliar terms: bindle, sycamore, heron, work card,
5
Give examples of other texts that have the similar or opposite themes
6. Using Steinbeck’s first paragraph as a model, write a creative text of their own,
describing Poughkeepsie and a place of their choosing.
7. Use the library or World Wide Web to obtain historical and literary information
about the novel, the author, and the period in which the story is set.
Materials: Novel; hypertext images of tramps, bindle, heron, sycamore and work card,
narration, two rubber balls, inventory of words and phrases.
Methods:
Group Activity - Using a group activity developed by “Shakespeare and Co.” to
reinforce oral elements of story, have students voice various segments of the text while
simultaneously engaging in a physical performance using a ball. (This is to reinforce
concentration, team work and familiarity with the text, and a means of having students
exert mental and physical energy simultaneously). This is a warm up for them to
LISTEN and DISCUSS. Play is essential in engaging students’ interest and
intelligences on multiple levels.
Lecture – What is a text? What is Steinbeck’s text doing?
Free write
Procedure: Group Activity: Students are given a paper with a phrase that they should
memorize or read from when asked to recite. (5 minutes)
1. Have students form a circle, and pass a ball back and forth to definite partners. They
always throw to and receive from the same person. When throwing, they will call out their
last name. (1 minute)
2. Students pass different ball back and forth in reverse order (throw to person from
whom they received) while reciting name of animal, plant or geographical feature from text.
(1 minute)
3. Students use both balls, reciting own name when throwing, ecological term when
receiving.
4. Students take seats and discuss the action, setting and characters thus far
5. Students write their own story, re-telling the action this far in a 10-minute free write
6. Writing is collected. Students are reminded of next reading and homework. (Packet)
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Evaluation:
1. Students can describe the author’s purpose, influences and accomplishments:
-- HISTORY: To chronicle the lives of people living during the Depression:
a. Tramps
b. Migrants
c. Ranch life
-- SETTING: To describe the ecology in the Salinas / Soledad region
a. The mammals
-- mice, rabbits, dogs, coyote, humans
b reptiles
-- snakes, lizard
c
birds
-- heron
d
plants
-- sycamore, willow,
e
waterways
-- Salinas River
-- CHARACTER: To show human interactions and emotions
a Lennie represents the theme of mental retardation
“It wasn’t no good to pet.” 10
b George represents the loyal friend or ?
c The two friends share their lives and dreams
2. Students can define and use new vocabulary words
2.
Elva Adams
11th Grade Lesson Plan – Pre-introduction to The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller
Observer: Ms. Piniero
Date: October 22, 2002 – 2nd Period; 8:30 a.m. – 9:11 a.m.
Title: “A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty—Lecture Tape
Grade Level/Subject: 11th Grade Regents English
Purpose:
1. To have students actively listen to a passage while taking careful notes.
2. To have students understand why they must take good notes to recall lecture.
Objectives: SWBAT (Students will be able to)
1. Listen to and comprehend taped lecture while taking pertinent notes.
2. Recall facts as they occur in story by utilizing notes to respond.
3. Understand how Task I of the English Regents works and learn to prepare for it
Materials: Audiotape, tape player, lined paper, handout, blackboard, chalk, grading grid
Methods: Listening, taking notes, recalling events, question and answer (as time permits)
Procedure:
1. Students are advised that they will listen to a lecture tape, “A Visit of Charity”
by Eudora Welty for approximately fifteen minutes.
2. Students are given lined paper; instructed to write down questions 1-3 on
front board on one side of paper You will use language of question to respond.
3. Students instructed to take notes on other side of lined paper as events occur in
story, paying particular attention to what happens in story and the sequence in
which events occur.
4. Students are given handout listing out of sequence events from lecture.
5. Question and answer session to generate thoughts and how students make
meaning.
6. Students instructed to place the numbers 1 through 16 next to event(s) as they
occurred in story and answer the three open ended questions for homework.
Evaluation:
1. Notes used to place sequence of events in chronological order.
2. Students use of notes to respond to open ended questions about lecture
assessed and graded. (Notes turned in with responses). Work graded.