DeKalb Middle School Weekly Lesson Plan

Teacher: ___Wisinger______* Teaching Structures:

Week of: _____10.05.15__ (O) one lead, one support (A) alternative teaching

Subject: ____ESL______(S) station teaching (T) team teaching

Class Hour: ____5th and 6th ______(P) parallel teaching

Target Students: ______Students with Special Needs: ______

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Day/Date / Big Idea/
Goals / Lesson Activities /
Assessment
Standard Essential Q. / *Teaching Structure
Monday / Reading,
Genre study: horror, characteristics of a scary story / Do Now: Reading
Review genre. Explain the genre horror. Watch video clip: Paranormal Activity
What makes something scary? How can we create fear? What is the difference between how fear is created in writing and in movies?
Characteristics of a scary story
Centers / W.8, 10
SL.1, 6
RL.3, 6, 10 / How can you create an atmosphere of fear?
Tuesday / Reading,
Horror genre, characteristics of a scary story, descriptive adjectives / Do Now: Reading
Horror Genre: Watch video clip: The Strangers
Characteristics of horror: Setting.
Describing setting
Centers / W.8, 10
SL.1, 6
RL.3, 6, 10 / How can you create fear and suspense through setting?
Wednesday / Reading, Horror genre,
Characteristics of a scary story,
Descriptive adjectives / Do Now: Reading
Horror genre
Watch video clip: REC
Characteristics of scary story: characters
Describing people
Centers / W.3, 8, 10
SL.1, 6
RL.3, 6, 10
L.1, 2 / How can we develop characters in a story?
Thursday / Reading,
Horror genre,
Characteristics of a scary story
Descriptive adjectives / Do Now: Reading
Horror genre
Characteristics of scary story: suspense
Descriptive adjectives
Centers / W.8, 10
SL.1, 6
RL.3, 6, 10 / How can we create suspense?
Friday / Reading,
Review and remediation / Do Now: Reading
Finish any incomplete work
Big world, small world / RI.1, 2
L.1, 2, 3, 4 / How do we develop fear and suspense?

DeKalb Middle School Lesson Plan – page 2

Teacher: ______

Week Of: ______

Subject: ______

Class Hour: ______

Academic Adaptations
(as needed for gifted students and students with disabilities) / Key Vocabulary / Materials/
Support Needed / Performance Data and Notes
Monday / All students get differentiated instruction, extra wait time, vocabulary building activities, visual representations of words and ideas, small groups, text broken into small sections, etc. This happens daily. / Suspense, mood, characters, setting, analyze, plot
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday