Title: of Mice and Men

Instructor: Kathy Dudley

Date:14 January 2005

Title: Of Mice and Men

Subject: Canterbury Tales – Guerrilla Teaching

Purpose: Students display their understanding of medieval society – its art, architecture, culture and philosophical debates – after a hypertextual or historicist reading of Chaucer's Tales.

--Provoke student thought and discussion on human rights during the period

--Have students research selected topics or those of interest personally to the student

--Teach their findings to someone outside of the class

--Write reflectively, describing the process about the Provoke students to question and identify the nature of friendship

--Demonstrate the interdependencies among humans and nature

--Inspire further inquiry into the writer’s craft

Objectives: SWBAT

1.Describe the behavior and speech Steinbeck ascribes to Lennie that indicate to the reader that he is mentally retarded

2.Cite the language Steinbeck uses to describe how George feels about Lennie

3Re-tell the action of the story

4.Define unfamiliar terms: bindle, sycamore, heron, work card,

5Give examples of other texts that have the similar or opposite themes

1. Using Steinbeck’s first paragraph as a model, write a creative text of their own, describing Poughkeepsie and a place of their choosing.

1. Use the library or World Wide Web to obtain historical and literary information about the novel, the author, and the period in which the story is set.

Materials:Novel; hypertext images of tramps, bindle, heron, sycamore and work card, narration, two rubber balls, inventory of words and phrases.

Methods:

Group Activity - Using a group activity developed by “Shakespeare and Co.” to reinforce oral elements of story, have students voice various segments of the text while simultaneously engaging in a physical performance using a ball. (This is to reinforce concentration, team work and familiarity with the text, and a means of having students exert mental and physical energy simultaneously). This is a warm up for them to LISTEN and DISCUSS. Play is essential in engaging students’ interest and intelligences on multiple levels.

Lecture – What is a text? What is Steinbeck’s text doing?

Free write

Procedure: Group Activity: Students are given a paper with a phrase that they should memorize or read from when asked to recite. (5 minutes)

1.Have students form a circle, and pass a ball back and forth to definite partners. They always throw to and receive from the same person. When throwing, they will call out their last name. (1 minute)

2.Students pass different ball back and forth in reverse order (throw to person from whom they received) while reciting name of animal, plant or geographical feature from text. (1 minute)

3.Students use both balls, reciting own name when throwing, ecological term when receiving.

4.Students take seats and discuss the action, setting and characters thus far

5.Students write their own story, re-telling the action this far in a 10-minute free write

6.Writing is collected. Students are reminded of next reading and homework. (Packet)

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Evaluation:

1. Students can describe the author’s purpose, influences and accomplishments:

-- HISTORY: To chronicle the lives of people living during the Depression:

1. Tramps
2. Migrants
3. Ranch life

-- SETTING: To describe the ecology in the Salinas / Soledad region

a.The mammals

-- mice, rabbits, dogs, coyote, humans

breptiles

-- snakes, lizard

cbirds

-- heron

dplants

-- sycamore, willow,

ewaterways

-- Salinas River

-- CHARACTER: To show human interactions and emotions

aLennie represents the theme of mental retardation

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bGeorge represents the loyal friend or ?

c The two friends share their lives and dreams

1. Students can define and use new vocabulary words

2.

Elva Adams

11th Grade Lesson Plan – Pre-introduction to The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller

Observer: Ms. Piniero

Date: October 22, 2002 – 2nd Period; 8:30 a.m. – 9:11 a.m.

Title: “A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty—Lecture Tape

Grade Level/Subject: 11th Grade Regents English

Purpose:

1. To have students actively listen to a passage while taking careful notes.

2. To have students understand why they must take good notes to recall lecture.

Objectives: SWBAT (Students will be able to)

1. Listen to and comprehend taped lecture while taking pertinent notes.

2. Recall facts as they occur in story by utilizing notes to respond.

3. Understand how Task I of the English Regents works and learn to prepare for it

Materials: Audiotape, tape player, lined paper, handout, blackboard, chalk, grading grid

Methods: Listening, taking notes, recalling events, question and answer (as time permits)

Procedure:

1. Students are advised that they will listen to a lecture tape, “A Visit of Charity”

by Eudora Welty for approximately fifteen minutes.

2. Students are given lined paper; instructed to write down questions 1-3 on

front board on one side of paper You will use language of question to respond.

3. Students instructed to take notes on other side of lined paper as events occur in

story, paying particular attention to what happens in story and the sequence in

which events occur.

4. Students are given handout listing out of sequence events from lecture.

5. Question and answer session to generate thoughts and how students make

meaning.

6. Students instructed to place the numbers 1 through 16 next to event(s) as they

occurred in story and answer the three open ended questions for homework.

Evaluation:

1. Notes used to place sequence of events in chronological order.

2. Students use of notes to respond to open ended questions about lecture

assessed and graded. (Notes turned in with responses). Work graded.