TUESDAY
MONDAY
Teacher: Kelly Rozelle
Subject: ELA
Grade: 7
Dates: 10/26/15 -- 10/30/15
Lesson Title: “The Monkey’s Paw”
Standards: SL.7.4, SL.7.5, L.7.1, L.7.3, RL.7.2, RL.7.10
Objectives:
 Present projects in a focused manner with relevant descriptions, details, and examples.
 Use eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
 Provide an objective summary of “The Monkey’s Paw.”
Procedures:
 Sacred Reading Time (SRT) & conferences
 Post-Mortem of a Protagonist Presentations
 Identify and discuss key events in “The Monkey’s Paw.”
 For each event, discuss the following:
 What happened?
 Who was involved?
 Did this event have a significant effect on a character or characters? (require him or her to act,
make a decision, change a decision, or see a situation with new eyes)
 Did this event change the direction of the story?
 Based on our discussion of the key events in the story, students identify the turning or tipping point
of the story and support their answers with textual evidence.
 Sacred Writing Time—Create a graphic summary of “The Monkey’s Paw.”
Resources & Materials:
Assessments: Participation & Post-Mortem of a
Protagonist presentations
Comments:
Lesson Title: “The Monkey’s Paw”
Standards: SL.7.4, SL.7.5, L.7.1, L.7.3, RL.7.10, RL.7.3
Objectives:
 Present projects in a focused manner with relevant descriptions, details, and examples.
 Use eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
 Identify examples of foreshadowing in “The Monkey’s Paw.”
Procedures:
 SRT & conferences
 Post-Mortem of a Protagonist Presentations
 Define foreshadowing—Hints or clues of what is to come later in the story. If you pay careful
attention while reading, it’s like a secret between you and the author.
 Explain, Today we are going to read like detectives, noting places that contained important clues.
Read aloud the beginning excerpt (chess match) from “The Monkey’s Paw” and model “detective
reading.”
 Students work in investigative groups to reread Chapter 1 and find examples of foreshadowing.
Students record a minimum of 5 examples. Share whole-class.
 SWT—Continue working on graphic summary of “The Monkey’s Paw.”
Resources & Materials: copies of “The
Assessments: Participation & Foreshadowing examples
Monkey’s Paw”
Comments:
Teacher: Kelly Rozelle
Subject: ELA
WEDNESDAY
Lesson Title: “The Monkey’s Paw”
Grade: 7
Dates: 10/26/15 -- 10/30/15
Standards: RL.7.10, RL.7.3
Objectives:
 Identify suspenseful moments in “The Monkey’s Paw.”
Procedures:
 SRT & conferences
 Define suspense—Suspense is the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the
outcome of certain events. It basically leaves the reader holding their breath and wanting more
information. The amount of intensity in a suspenseful moment is why it is hard to put a book down.
Without suspense, a reader would lose interest quickly in any story because there is nothing that is
making the reader ask, “What’s going to happen next?” In writing, there has to be a series of events
that leads to a climax that captivates the audience and makes them tense and anxious to know what
is going to happen.
 Working independently, students reread Part III of “The Monkey’s Paw” and record examples of
suspense.
 Discuss whole-class.
 SWT—Finish graphic summary of “The Monkey’s Paw.”
Resources & Materials: copies of “The
Assessments: Participation, Presentations, & Graphic
Monkey’s Paw”
Summaries
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
Comments:
Lesson Title: “The Monkey’s Paw”
Standards: L.7.4
Objectives:
 Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word.
Procedures:
 SRT & conferences
 Context Clues PowerPoint slideshow with application activities
 Context Clues Application Quiz
Resources & Materials: copies of “The
Assessments: Participation & Context clues application
Monkey’s Paw”
quiz
Comments:
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Lesson Title: “The Monkey’s Paw”
Standards: RL.7.10, RL.7.1, RL.7.3
Objectives:
Procedures:
 SRT & conferences
 Read aloud and discuss Richard Matheson’s short story “Prey.”
Resources & Materials:
Assessments: Participation
Comments: