LA Lesson Plan

Subject: Language ArtsLesson Focus: Types of Genres

Grade Level:6Teachers: Miller/Lyttle

Unit: 3 ThemeQuarter: 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:
  1. How do you build a good story?
  2. Which characters are unforgettable?
  3. Who tells the story?
  4. What are life’s big lessons?

Essential Question: How does genre impact the way a reader approaches a text?
Common Core Standards: RL6.1;6.2;6.4;6.5
RI 6.1;6.2;6.7 / What students will be able to do:
SWBAT
  • Students will define, understand and analyze theme by studying the story “Scout’s Honor” by Avi

Stage 2 - Learning Activities
(Instructional Block)
Time / Activity/Explanation/Best Practices
(The “what” and “how”) / Selected Resources
10 Minutes – Warm-up / D.E.A.R.
Check homework, sentences using academic vocabulary / Daybook
10 Minutes- Review / As a class we will review theme using the notes in our daybook. We will review the themes found in the Aesop fable, the “Stray Cat” poem, and “Gomebei and the Wild Ducks”, “Words like Freedom” and “Dreams” to jog students memories and connect to this class.
We will also review characterization. Together we will discuss the four methods of characterization and discuss how authors use characterization to build great stories. / Daybook
5 Minutes – Guided Practice / As a class we will read the summary found on page 360. We’ll discuss what we know already about the setting of Brooklyn and what/who the boy scouts are. We will talk about reading with a purpose. / Textbook
Scout’s Honor Worksheet
45 Minutes – Guided and Independent Practice / As the students listen to the story being read they will complete the worksheet. As we listen and follow along we will stop periodically to use reading strategies to predict, make connections, and track the events. / Scout’s Honor Worksheet
15 Minutes- Guided and Independent Practice / After we finish reading we will go over the worksheet to fill in the blanks, this is a interactive way of summarizing. / Scout’s Honor Worksheet
15 Minutes- Guided Independent Practice / In partners students will work together to complete the chart on the worksheet. They will investigate how each character changes throughout the story. We will go over the chart as a class. / Scout’s Honor Worksheet
10 Minutes – Independent Practice / Students will create a comic strip in their daybook with a minimum of 20 blocks illustrating the events in the story. / Daybook
5 Minutes – Packup / Write homework in planners, packup. For homework students will finish their comic strip tracking the events of the story. / Daybook
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