Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Teacher: Hutcheson
Subject: American Lit
PLEASE NOTE: SCHEDULING
AND STRATEGIES WILL VARY
AS EACH TEACHER WORKS
TO MEET THE NEEDS OF
SPECIFIC CLASSES.
Dates: March 5 – March 8
Unit Topic:
Revolutionary Period
Romanticism & Transcendentalism
Standard(s):
ELAALRL1.1a,b,e; ELAALRL2a,b,c,d; ELAALRL3b; ELA11W1a,g; ELA11LSV2
Prior to teaching: Bell Ringer activity
Monday
Tuesday
Essential Question
How are literary devices
How are the themes of
used in Revolutionary
Romantic literature still
literature?
seen in contemporary
literature?
How are themes presented
in Revolutionary Period
How does Romantic poetry
literature
compare with the poetry
we have read in other
units?
Wednesday
How does Irving’s use of
imagery in the story
convey the tone and
meaning of the story?
How does the short story
“The Devil and Tom
Walker” portray the themes
of Romanticism?
Thursday
What are the characteristics
of Transcendentalism?
Friday
NO SCHOOL
How does Emerson’s
diction express the major
themes of
Transcendentalism
(aphorisms)?
What tensions exist
between self-reliance and
conformity?
Activating/Acceleration:
(Some ideas: KWL, Pre-reading, Think Pair Share, Thinking Maps, Vocabulary Overview, Word Splash, Survey, Big Four)
Vocabulary overview
Vocabulary Overview:
Thinking Map: Defining in KWL – What I know about
Theme, parallelism,
rhyme scheme, alliteration, context--Greed
Transcendentalism; What I
inference
allusion, meter, tone
want to know about
Transcendentalism; What I
learned about
Transcendentalism
Cognitive Teaching Strategies: include time for distributed practice or summarizing
(Some ideas: Lecture/Question, Read/Discuss, TIMS, Hands on Activity, Thinking Map, Pictograph, Research, Vocabulary,
Diagrams/Graphs,
Brunswick High School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Comprehension)
Read “What is an
American?”
Complete packet in pairs.
Review packet together.
Read intro and complete
guided notes.
Students will read and
paraphrase “Psalm of Life”
together .
Discuss tone and imagery.
Read “The Devil and Tom
Walker” by Washington
Irving.
Fill out “Is it Romantic”
sheet together.
Answer questions and
complete sequencing map.
Video clip of Dead Poets’
Society – Walking in the
Courtyard
Read/Discuss “SelfReliance” by Emerson.
Complete graphic
organizer while reading for
different characteristics of
Transcendentalism.
“You Might be a
Transcendentalist if…”
Summarizing Strategies: (Some ideas: Ticket Out the Door, 3-2-1, The Important Thing, One Word, Learning Logs)
What are common
Ticket out the Door:
The most important thing
Three word, One word
elements in all three
Answer the first essential
about Romanticism is…
packets?
question.