WOODLAND HILLS SECONDARY LESSON PLAN

Name _David Brown______Date 1.11.15 Length of Lesson _2 weeks__ Content Area English 12__

STAGE I – DESIRED RESULTS
LESSON TOPIC (Module, if applicable):
Analysis Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Medieval period: socio-historical background
Analysis of indirect/direct characterization in general Wife of Bath’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales
Analysis of social satire, humor, and author purpose (using tale-telling as framework for poem)
Identify internal rhyme and end rhyme
Senior Project: ongoing, argument notes, researching in the library / BIG IDEAS:
(Content standards, assessment anchors, eligible content, objectives, and skill focus)
CC1.2.11-12 CC A,B,G,J-L, 1.3.11-12C-F, H-K
• Comprehension requires and enhances critical thinking and is constructed through the intentional interaction between reader and text
• Writing is a means of documenting thinking
• Writing is a recursive process that conveys ideas, thoughts and feelings
• Purpose, topic and audience guide types of writing
UNDERSTANDING GOALS (CONCEPTS):
Students will understand:
·  Essential content, literary elements and devices inform meaning
·  Textual structure, features and organization inform meaning
·  Acquiring and applying a robust vocabulary assists in constructing meaning / ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
• What role does writing play in our lives?
• How do we develop into effective writers?
• To what extent does the writing process contribute to the quality of writing?

VOCABULARY:

Concede
Reprove
Solicitous
Sr. project:
Notes: direct quote, paraphrase, summary
Works cited page
Thesis
Supporting facts
Transitions

Canterbury Tales--see textbook index or for literary terms:

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STUDENT OBJECTIVES (COMPETENCIES/OUTCOMES):

Students will be able to:
• Use and cite evidence from texts to make assertions, inferences, generalizations, and to draw conclusions
• Analyze and evaluate author’s/authors’ use of conflict, theme and /or point of view within and among texts
• Summarize, draw conclusions, and make generalizations from a variety of mediums
• Analyze the impact of societal and cultural influences in texts
• Analyze the use of facts and opinions across texts
• Evaluate the presentation of essential and nonessential information in texts, identifying the author’s implicit or explicit bias and assumptions
• 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.
• Evaluate organizational features of text (e.g. sequence, question/answer, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution) as related to content to clarify and enhance meaning
• Articulate connections between and among words based on meaning, content, and context to distinguish nuances or connotations
• Analyze the context of literal, figurative, and idiomatic vocabulary to clarify meaning
• Generalize the use of academic vocabulary across disciplines
STAGE II – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE
PERFORMANCE TASK:
Students will type works cited page for sr. project notes.
Character analysis, completed in chart.
Text questions answered in packet.
Reading and taking notes
Writing themselves into Prologue
Open notes quiz / FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS:
Spot check for comprehension
Thumbs up/thumbs down
STAGE III: LEARNING PLAN
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES:
Do Now:
Content related questions.
Mini Lesson:
How to decide what are the best arguments to utilize in Sr. Proejct.
Guided Practice:
Paraphrasing, works cited entries
Independent Practice:
Students will do their own Sr. Project periodically
Summations/Formative Assessments:
Checking for understanding
Reflections: / MATERIALS AND RESOURCES:
Sr project handbooks
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales : Wife of Bath Tale(Glencoe textbook)
-Youtube videos related to Canterbury Tales
-Week in Rap web video(Fri)
-CNN Student News (Fri) / INTERVENTIONS:
tutoring Tues. and Weds in English Lab
parent contact
English lab / ASSIGNMENTS:
Sr. Project:
Take notes and number according to project format.
Character Analysis Chart
Text Questions Packet
Quiz