WOODLAND HILLS HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLAN

SAS and Understanding By Design Template

Name Mr.Brown Date Nov. 5, 2012 Length of Lesson 7 WeeksContent Area English 12 Edline was updated this week:

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STAGE I – DESIRED RESULTS
LESSON TOPIC:• Epic Poetry and the Epic Hero: “Beowulf” / BIG IDEAS:
(Content standards, assessment anchors, eligible content) objectives, and skill focus)
• Comprehension requires and enhances critical thinking and is constructed through the intentional interaction between reader and text
UNDERSTANDING GOALS (CONCEPTS):
Students will understand:
• Essential content, literary elements and devices inform meaning
• Textual structure, features and organization inform meaning
• Focus, content, organization, style, and conventions work together to impact writing quality / ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: • How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?

VOCABULARY: -Genre

-Epic Poetry

-Epic Hero

-Alliteration

-Kenning

-Boast

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STUDENT OBJECTIVES (COMPETENCIES/OUTCOMES):

Students will be able to:
• Identify and evaluate essential content between and among various text types
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the author’s use of literary devices in various genre
• Analyze and evaluate author’s/authors’ use of literary elements within and among genres
• Analyze and evaluate author’s/authors’ use of conflict, theme and /or point of view within and among texts
• Evaluate the characteristics of various genre (e.g. fiction and nonfiction forms of narrative, poetry, drama and essay) to determine how the form relates to purpose.
• Analyze the epic and the epic hero
• Connect literature to historical contexts, current events, and personal experience
- Create a brochure explaining historical background to the story Beowulf.
-Create a personal "BOAST" that is comparable to Beowulfs Boast in sectionII of Beowulf.
STAGE II – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE
PERFORMANCE TASK:Defend the author’s choice of genre, transfer genre, modernize story elements, create monster and boasts . Connect the text to a historical facts. / FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS:
#1. Choose assessments:Graphic OrganizersExit TicketsSummarizing Main IdeasPre-AssessmentOpen Ended QuestionsThink-Pair-ShareThumbs UpResponse CardsBrief in Class Writing PrompPortfolios
#2. Choose assessments:Graphic OrganizersExit TicketsSummarizing Main IdeasPre-AssessmentOpen Ended QuestionsThink-Pair-ShareThumbs UpResponse CardsBrief in Class Writing PrompPortfolios
#3. Choose assessments:Graphic OrganizersExit TicketsSummarizing Main IdeasPre-AssessmentOpen Ended QuestionsThink-Pair-ShareThumbs UpResponse CardsBrief in Class Writing PrompPortfolios
Others:
STAGE III: LEARNING PLAN
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES:
Active Engagements used:
#1. Choose Active EngagementsNote-TakingGraphic OrganizersSummarizingHigher Level Thinking SkillsCooperative EducationPartneringWhole Class ResponseThink-Pair-ShareCompare & ContrastRandom Reporter
#2. Choose Active EngagementsNote-TakingGraphic OrganizersSummarizingHigher Level Thinking SkillsCooperative EducationPartneringWhole Class ResponseThink-Pair-ShareCompare & ContrastRandom Reporter
Others:
Describe usage: weekly
Scaffolding used:
#1. Choose Technique:Graphic OrganizersGuided NotesBuild VocabularyBuild on Prior KnowledgeChunkingProvide Visual SupportTeacher PrompingK-W-L
#2 . Choose Technique:Graphic OrganizersGuided NotesBuild VocabularyBuild on Prior KnowledgeChunkingProvide Visual SupportTeacher PrompingK-W-L
Others: Historical Overview
Describe usage: beginning of the week and the end of the unit, with reinforcement througout.
Other techniques used:
MINI LESSON:
-Research history of Anglo Saxons in Britain as background for Beowulf. by creating a brochure.
Analyze Old, Middle, and Modern English within the text of Beowulf.
-Find and explain the author’s use of literary terms within a text
-Compare/contrast a film adaptation of the literary work with the original text
-Create a personal "Boast" that is comparable to the boast of Beowulf in section II of the story.
-Think Pare, Share with readings from Beowulf.
-Creative Expressions of Understanding: Summarizing the text. / MATERIALS AND RESOURCES:
-Glencoe Literature
-Notebook/folder
CONTENT AREA READING:
Beowulf in the Glencoe Literature Book / INTERVENTIONS:
-Additional time
-Appropriately modified assignments / ASSIGNMENTS:
-Reading Log/Summary
-Literary Analysis
-Worksheets
-Short Essays