Unit Theme: 11.4 It’s a Mystery! Week: # 2

Teacher: Subject: English Grade: 11th Date: From ______to ______20____

Desired Result
Enduring Understanding
Example: Students will understand that …
EU1. Mystery requires suspense, clues, details, alibis, character development and motivation and details to be engaging and effective.
EU2. Multiple strategies including using context clues, prediction, inference and descriptive language can be used to help readers and writers determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and to understand what is read.
EU3. The elements of mysteries, particularly detective stories and expository writing include providing background information and facts to solve the story. Show but not tell, cause and effect, and investigation are all key to expository fiction.
Assessment Evidence
Summative Evaluation (Performance Task) (unit projects, exams, etc.)
Learning Plan
Suggested Learning Activities:
Day 1 / Day 2 / Day 3 / Day 4 / Day 5
Standards / Reading / Writing / Reading / Writing / Writing / Writing / Writing
Expectations / 11. R.10
11.W.3 / 11. R.10
11.W.3 / 11W.2 / 11W.2 / 11.W.2
11.W.5
Academic Strategy
Instructional Strategy and Phase
Objective / The student listens to the teacher reading aloud and reacts to the fiction genre writing. / The student uses effective techniques, targeted details, and well-structured experiences. / The student uses effective techniques, targeted details, and well-structured his/her experiences to consult references. / The student uses his/her drafts to compose an expository essay comparing and contrasting the process of solving the mysteries in the story versus the movie version. / The student also writes similar drafts about other mystery story he/she has viewed in another medium during this unit.
Depth of Knowledge (DOK) / ___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking / ___ Recall / Memory
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___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking / ___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking / ___ Recall / Memory
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___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking / ___ Recall / Memory
___ Skill / Concept
___ Strategic Thinking
___ Extended Thinking
Initial Activities / Routine writing based on the read aloud and personal experiences / Read and comprehend journal writing and details. / Read for a particular purpose in writing using prior experiences. / Review based on his/her mystery story / Predicting the possible events compared
Development Activities / Writing an explanation of how a specific place influences the way he/she behaves. Using student’s own experience to comply experiences in life. / Peer discussion
Read and share the details. Writing journal entries. / The student assumes the role of an object, writes about experiences in a particular setting from the object’s point of view, and writes a brief monologue describing the object’s experiences. / Performance Task #1
Student refines his/her draft / Share the Sherlock Holmes series.
Learning activity
Predicting Log
Closing Activities / Journal Log

/ Teacher writes the journal response. / Role Play the monologue. / Over view his/her draft / Complete a Venn diagram to view the contrast of the movie and his/her experience.
Formative Assessment – Other evidence
Materials
Homework
Differentiated Instruction Strategies
___ Special Education
___ LSP/LEP
___ Section 504
___ Gifted
Teacher Reflection