Course: 11Th American Literature and Composition Unit: 1 Fear, Faith, and Freedom

D’Lee Pollock-Moore

ELA Lesson Plan

Course: 11th American Literature and Composition Unit: 1 Fear, Faith, and Freedom

Date: ______Day: 13 / 23-25

• Daily grammar mini-lesson / literary skills warm-up.

• I am learning to write an objective summary of a text using multiple sources.

• How do I write an objective summary using multiple sources?

• Objective Summary
• Third person point of view

• Give students three different perspectives of the same story (Leigh’s Story).
• Read the first perspective to the class. Have the students use silent, sustained reading to finish the remaining perspectives.
• Model how to take the three different versions of the same story and objectively summarize into one using the document camera or give students simple steps to follow to work together in pairs to do a blended objective summary.
• Use terms like third person narrator, main events, news reporting, etc. to help students understand how to write a blended objective summary.
• When students finish, explain the homework assignment for tonight.

• Discuss how to write an objective summary. Reason out steps that students used with the simple narrative accounts. What steps would you use with nonfiction sources?

• Divide students into groups of four. Each group of students should choose a writer and three “Source Experts.”
• Then, each group of students should receive a group of three articles on one of the following topics: Arthur Miller, The Salem Witch Trials, McCarthyism and The Second Red Scare, and/or Puritanism.
• Each Source Expert should highlight the key ideas and details of their article.
• Then, students will work together to create one blended, objective summary for the group. The fourth student in each group should be the designated writer.

• Give easier topics or articles to lower level students.

• Students will present their blended, objective summaries to the class using the document camera, or if time permits, students can make a graphic organizer / visual representation to display the top ten facts about their topic to the class.

• Fourth Perspective Writing Assignment: Today in class, you read Leigh’s Story which was written from three different perspectives. Now, imagine that you are a different character from the story and write at least a one page account of what you witnessed that day. You should use first person. Write and communicate your account as if you are your chosen character from Leigh’s Story. You cannot be Jim, Scott, or Leigh as their perspectives are already part of the story.
• Vocabulary homework.