Community High School District 218
COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 218
UBD Lesson Plans
Course: High School English Period(s): ? Unit: Working with Poe and the Gothic Genre.
Essential Question(s): How can I approach the subject of the gothic in order to help the students grasp the concept? While administering the lesson on the gothic, how can I check for writing skills?
WHERETO: W – Where they are heading and why, H – Hook students through engaging experiences, E – Experiences will make understandings real and equip students for final performances, R – Cause students to reflect and rethink…guide students to rehearse, revise and refine, E – Students exhibit their understanding and engage in meaningful self-evaluation, T – Lesson is tailored for individual needs, O – Organized for maximum engagement and effectiveness.
Day
A commitment to time /Learning Objectives
Students will be able to /Assessment
Formative & Summative /Hook
Getting their attention /Activities
Specified for each day /Reflection
How well did it go?Write in given day here. / -1.B.4a Preview reading materials, clarify meaning, analyze overall themes and coherence, and relate reading with information from other sources.
-1.B.4c Read age-appropriate material with fluency and accuracy.
-3.A.4 Use standard English to edit documents for clarity, subject/verb agreement, adverb and adjective agreement and verb tense; proofread for spelling, capitalization and punctuation; and ensure that documents are formatted in final form for submission and/or publication.
-2.A.4a Analyze and evaluate the effective use of literary techniques (e.g., figurative language, allusion, dialogue, description, symbolism, word choice, dialect) in classic and contemporary literature representing a variety of forms and media.
-2.A.4d Describe the influence of the author’s language structure and word choice to convey the author’s viewpoint. / -Monitor classroom discussion.
-Collect journal entries and check for validity and adherence to instruction.
-Collect stories and grade for gothic content and grammatical correctness. / -I will ask the students to write in their journals on the prompt, “When you think of scary movies, books, and stories, what images and situations come to mind?” / -Hook.
-I will open up classroom discussion on what the students have written in their journals and introduce the gothic element.
-The handout from
Will be given out and discussed (this handout is two pages long and discusses most of the themes and elements of gothic literature).
-After we have gone over the handout, we will watch a clip from Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and discuss the elements of the gothic that appear in the film.
-When the discussions and activities are finished, I will put the students into groups of three and let them know that they will have to create an original (classroom appropriate) short story that contains many of the elements of the gothic that we have discussed and that are on the handout. They will begin on day one, and will have until halfway through the next class to complete their story. Students will be responsible to turn in a grammatically correct writing.
-The stories will then be read aloud in front of the class, and the class will vote on which story captures the elements of the gothic the best (the winning group gets candy…kids love that candy). / TBD
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