LA Lesson Plan

Subject: Language ArtsLesson Focus: Author’s Purpose and Conflict

Grade Level:6Teachers: Lyttle

Unit: 2 Characterization and POVLesson No.:Quarter: 1

Stage 1 - Desired Results
Content Standard(s) for Unit:
1.02, 1.03, 1.04, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02
Areas of Interaction:
Environment / MYP Unit Question:
How is life affected and ordered or structured by patterns?
Essential Question:
  1. What characters are unforgettable?
Common Core Standards: RL6.1;6.2;6.4;6.5
RI 4, 6, 10; L1c, L4b, L 5 / What students will be able to do:
SWBAT
  • Students will analyze and deconstruct characterization within “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros

Stage 2 - Learning Activities
(Instructional Block)
Time / Activity/Explanation/Best Practices
(The “what” and “how”) / Selected Resources
10 minutes – Warm-up / In daybooks students will write about what age means to them. They will reflect on the questions: what does it mean to grow older? On the last birthday you had, did you feel any different inside? How did turning another year older make you feel?
After students have finished those who are willing will share what they’ve written. / Daybook
25 Minutes – Guided and Independent Practice / Together we will review the reading strategy “Making Connections”. As we read students will fill out a chart in their daybooks like the one below:
Imagery, example from the text / My connections
“underneath the year that makes you eleven” / I remember still feeling 10 on my 11th birthday.
Together we will read “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros . As we read students will make at least 5 connections. We will stop throughout the story and students will have the opportunity to write a connection they’ve made to the text in their chart. As we read we will stop to analyze the characterization and point of view used in the story and students will have an opportunity to write in their Making Connections Imagery Chart / Daybook
Textbook
20 minutes- Guided and Independent Practice / In partners students will fill in the chart below in their daybooks.
Methods of Characterization / Examples from “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros
Character’s physical appearance
Character’s Thoughts, Speech, and Actions
Other characters reactions to that character
Narrator’s direct comments
/ Textbook
Daybook
15 minutes—Guided and Independent Practice / After we read students will answer in partners the reading comprehension questions (1-5) in their daybooks. / Textbook and Daybook
5 Minutes-Closure / Students will packup and write their homework in their planners.
Lesson Reflection—Daily
Activity / What Worked? / What did not work?
Review
Instructional Input
Modeling
Reference Text
Guided and Independent Practice
Formative Assessment
Summary
Homework
Closure
Integration of Technology