LEARNING-FOCUSED LESSON PLAN
Plan for the concept, topic, or skill—Not for the class period
Learning Goals for this Lesson
Students Will Know:
 How a character changes over time
 How to work in a group setting
 How to generate questions to a text in
varying levels
 How to have appropriate discussion
topics and manners
 How to find similar themes
Topic: Novel “Code Orange”
Standards: RL 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9 W 1, 2, 8 L 1a, c
Students Will Be Able To:
1. Identify how a character changes over
time
2. Contribute positively in a group setting
3. Generate questions of varying difficulty
4. Discuss the novel appropriately
5. Compare picture books to the novel to
determine common themes
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How do characters change over time?
How can I discuss the happenings of a novel in a formalized and productive manner with my
peers?
With evidence to support my findings, what is happening in “Code Orange”?
What are similar themes in “Code Orange” and other texts?
Activating Strategy
Pre-Research
1. With groups, students will research, create a PPT, and present to their classmates their
topic
TOPICS:
a. 9/11
b. Bioterrorism
c. Anthrax
d. Tuberculosis
e. Caroline B. Cooney
f. Epidemics
Key vocabulary to preview and vocabulary strategy
Vocab Squares (similar to a Frayer Model)
bioterrorism , pinnacle, debris , venue , nondescript, expose, scourge, eradication, delved,
quarantine, requisite, expendable, expounded, precedence, extricated , scowled, belligerent,
vicious, summoning , permeable, rampant , nonentity, coherent, colleagues, entice , whet ,
cohorts , retract ,dilute , epidemiologist , longevity , recourse, specimen , symptom , lesion
Lesson Instruction
Learning Activity 1
Annotated Map
Assessment Prompt for LA 1
- Completed Annotated Map with group
- At the end of unit, open discussion about how Mitty has changed throughout the story.
They can use their graphic organizer to complete this assignment.
LEARNING-FOCUSED LESSON PLAN
Plan for the concept, topic, or skill—Not for the class period
Topic: Novel “Code Orange”
Learning Activity 2
Question Creation
- Using Bloom’s Bucks, the students will create questions based on $1, $5, $20, $100, and 1
million dollar questions stems. In their group they will discuss the questions they come up
with and record whatever their conversation consists of. Also, they will be answering and
discussing questions already created for them.
Assessment Prompt for LA 2
Discussion sheets that the group creates and keeps in folders
Learning Activity 3
Interview- with group, act out an interview that you would have with one of the characters from the
book
- Ask groups to come up with one character they would like to meet in real life.
- They should come up with a skit of actually meeting that person
- Act out skit
Assessment Prompt for LA 3
Informal- how well did groups characterize how their character would act?
Learning Activity 4
Picture Books Connection
Using picture books, students will look at pictures first to determine common themes between
them and the novel. They will then read the book to further any connections in theme that exist.
Assessment Prompt for LA 4
Picture book completed chart
Graphic Organizer
On the back of the annotated map to help them
understand how Mitty changes throughout the
story.
Also, in the picture book stations, students
have a graphic organizer so that they can see
repeated themes found in the novel and
picture books.
Summative Assignment
Code Orange menu project
There are three levels:
1. Knowledge/Comprehension
2. Analysis/Application
3. Evaluate/Synthesis
The assignments listed are from Blooms. They
have to choose one assignment from each
category, totaling 3.
Summarizing Strategy
In Activating strategy, students are synthesizing information from various internet sources and
compiling it onto a PowerPoint slide/slides.
In group discussions, students are summarizing what they have read and answering and creating
questions about the text.
On annotated map, students are summarizing what happened in a certain location.
LEARNING-FOCUSED LESSON PLAN
Plan for the concept, topic, or skill—Not for the class period
Topic: Novel “Code Orange”
Daily Plan (At a Glance)
TIME LIMIT: This is ongoing for several weeks.
Follow-Up project- Newspaper Research Assignment
Grades: Vocab squares, PPT presentations, Annotated Map, Discussion/Questions notes, Picture
books, Menu project