Westside High School Lesson Plan

Teacher Name: / Drue Harris / Dates: / Monday, February 23rd- Friday, February 27th, 2015
Monday / English I Prep
Periods: 2 & 3
Unit: Cycle 5 / English I PreAP
Periods: 4, 5, 6, and 7
Unit: Cycle 5
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to make complex inferences and support them with evidence from the text.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Review subject verb agreement. Students complete page 16, Exercise B from the Language Handbook
2. Read aloud strategy- notecard grade for the 2 selections on the Connecting Selections SAR
3. Review SAR Rubric
4. Write the Crossover SAR/ Label/ Turn in for a grade.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: The grammar and the SAR are for a grade.
Checks for Understanding: Students will highlight and label their SAR to ensure understanding of all components.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: pencil, folder, handouts
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none / What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to make complex inferences and support them with evidence from the text.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Grammar Warm Up: Subject Verb Agreement
2. SSR for “It’s That It Hurts” and “Vignette #4”
3. HUB Discussion Board: 3 SAR style questions
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: I will be monitoring the HUB to assess student responses.
Checks for Understanding: Students will reply to one another on the discussion board to point out a need for text evidence, make a comment, or offer a critique.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: book, laptop, handouts
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none
Tuesday / What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to use technology to collaborate with my peers.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Subject Verb Agreement Grammar Warm Up
2. Read “It’s That It Hurts” and “Vignette #4” SSR (Silent Sustained Reading)
3. HUB Discussion Questions (1 total)
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: I will be monitoring the HUB to assess student responses.
Checks for Understanding: Students will reply to one another on the discussion board to point out a need for text evidence, make a comment, or offer a critique.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: laptop
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none / What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to use technology to collaborate with my peers.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Subject Verb Agreement Warm Up
2. Respond to a Friend OR Finish SARs on the HUB from yesterday- 5 minutes
2. SSR for “Hand in His Pocket”
3. HUB Discussion Question (1 total)
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: I will be monitoring the HUB to assess student responses.
Checks for Understanding: Students will reply to one another on the discussion board to point out a need for text evidence, make a comment, or offer a critique.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: laptop, book, handouts
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none
Wednesday/Thursday / What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to use technology to collaborate with my peers.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Subject Verb Agreement Warm Up
2. Read the following from Earth:
-Hand in His Pocket
-Vignette #5
-A Silvery Night
- Vignette #6
-And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
3. Complete our “Inferences” Chart as we read
4. HUB Discussion Question: Exit Ticket
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
The exit ticket will count for a grade.
Checks for Understanding:
I will be asking students to provide content for the inferencing chart as we read.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: book, handouts, laptop
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Study for the SAR Test tomorrow by looking over the SARs we’ve done on the HUB this week. / What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to make connections across genre and analyze the author’s purpose and controlling ideas.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.5B Analyze how authors develop complex yet believable characters in works of fiction through a range of literary devices…
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Subject Verb Agreement Warm Up
2. Read Earth and add to our inferences chart
- Vignette #5
-A Silvery Night
-Vignette #6
-And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
3. Related Reading Activity
-Read “In Answer to Their Questions”
4. Discussion Question on the HUB: Crossover SAR
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: This HUB activity will count for a grade.
Checks for Understanding:
Students will refer to their “Connecting Selections” rubric to complete this SAR on the HUB.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: book, handouts, laptop
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Study for the SAR Test tomorrow by looking over the SARs we’ve done on the HUB this week.
Friday / What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to show my mastery of previous objectives.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Subject Verb Agreement Warm Up: Trade and Grade
2. Short Answer Response Test
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
This is a major grade assignment.
Checks for Understanding:
Grades will be handed back next week.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Test will be given out in class.
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none / What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I will be able to show my mastery of previous objectives.
TEKS/AP/Standards: ELA.9.Fig19B Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Subject Verb Agreement Warm Up: Trade and Grade
2. Short Answer Response Test
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
This is a major grade assignment.
Checks for Understanding:
Grades will be handed back next week.
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Test will be given out in class.
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: none