EDIS 5882

Lesson Plan #3 10/6/14

TA: Tim Hilliard
CI: Dean Eliason
Placement: Monticello HS
Unit Title: The Great Gatsby
Unit Big Idea (Concept/Theme): Literature Study and Close Reading
Unit Primary Skill focus: Close Reading
Plan type: Full-Detail
Critical Learning Objectives being taught in this lesson:
SWBAT:
Cognitive (know/understand):
A. Students will know the definition of theme.
B. Students will know how to identify the central themes of The Great Gatsby.
(Review)
C. Students will know how to evaluate the work of their peers.
D. Students will understand how universal themes in literature inform knowledge
of our own lives today.
Affective (feel/value) and/or Non-Cognitive:
E. Students will value their peers as partners in learning and as sources of
authentic feedback.
Performance (do):
F. Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of theme in The Great
Gatsby by constructing a written narrative devoted to the same theme in modern
times.
G. Students will be able to critique their peers understanding of theme by
analyzing a written narrative and visual aid.
H. Students will be able to evaluate their own work and understanding of theme
through a process of self-reflection.
SOLs:
11.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze relationships among American
literature, history, and culture.
c) Discuss American literature as it reflects traditional and contemporary themes, motifs,
universal characters, and genres.

CCSs:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development
over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to
produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
AP Language & Composition Objectives: [Not identified formally]
-Write for a variety of purposes (A)
-Converse and write reflectively about personal processes of composition (B)
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1. [ 35 mins] Step 3: The Gallery Walk
A. Set up and Explanation (5 Minutes)
I hope you are ready to unveil your masterpieces, because were now going to set up for
the Gallery Walk. Youll have one minute while the music is playing to get out your one
page story and your visual aid. Youll put both on your desk with the self-reflection sheet.
Heres how this will work. Youre going to move around the room to different projects at
different tables where youll look at the project in front of you, read the narrative, and
evaluate how it works with the visual. Ill explain the rotation process in a second, but
youll rotate three times, give feedback to three individual projects, and then have a free
round during which you can move around wherever you want and check out others you
havent had to provide feedback for.
Please check out the slide for the directions on what youll do at each station
1st Observer: Leave Blank
A Cool Thing:___________________________________________
A Question: _________________________________________________
How Clear and Relevant Is The Theme to GG and Today? (Circle, 3 = Most
Relevant)

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2
3
Explain:_________________________________________

You have probably noticed that on the front of your sheets that you will leave at your
desk, there are three sections for three observers to offer feedback. You must leave your
sheets at your desk so that each person you provides feedback may use it. When you get
to a project, you will read the narrative and look closely at the visual aid. Then youll fill
out the information that she sheet asks for. First, youll put your name. #2 - youll write
down something that you thought was interesting or cool about the project. #3 youll
leave a question. This is something that could use further clarification, a question that it
sparked about the book, or a question you have for the creator about their design
process. Lastly with the main point of today being to think about how the themes from
Gatsby relate to today, youll rate the projects ability to communicate a clear and
relevant theme to modern times. Each of you has put your central theme on the top of

your sheet, so you can tell what the creator was aiming for, and whether or not he or she
is on target. Then, youll provide a few words explaining how you rated them from 1-3 (3
being the strongest). Next Ill explain the process of rotating (Read)
There will be 3, 5-minute rounds Clockwise Rotation
Therefore, you will only observe work at 3 different tables.
If the numbers are uneven, anyone who is free will find the next available seat.
Once you rotate, you must pick one of the projects at that table. Handle this
maturely. No musical chairs.
After 3 rounds, there will be a free round in which you can move around and look
at any of the projects in the room.

Finally, after three rounds of giving feedback and one round of getting to check out all of
the projects that you havent seen, youre going to have 10 minutes to do a short selfreflection. You will have already been thinking about these questions in relation to
others projects, but this time youll thinking about them in relation to your own project.
The self-reflection is on the back of your sheet, and youll return to your project and your
seat to do it (Call on student to read)
How Clear and Relevant Is Your Theme to GG and Today? 1
2
3
What about your peers projects was interesting or inspirational?
What is one thing you would change to make your project even better than it is
right now?
What questions about The Great Gatsby did the Gallery Walk spark for you, or
what lingering questions do you still have that you want to discuss?
Okay, Im sure you have questions, because weve gone over a lot here. The main thing
is, youll rotate after the timer sounds 5 minutes at each place and youll fill out one
section of the feedback sheet in that time. Everyone will have the entire sheet filled by the
end. Then one free-for-all, and then the self-reflection. What are your questions?
B. Rotations (20 minutes)
Rotate clockwise to the next table and pick a project 5 minutes!
(Students have 5 minutes for reading, observing, and feedback. Timer sounds.)
Second station, rotate! 5 minutes
(Repeat routine.)
Third and final station for feedback 5 minutes!
(Timer sounds, and then students have five minutes to browse the remaining projects.)
For the last five minutes, you may browse the projects you have not been able to see.
C. Self-Reflection (10 minutes)
Great work, everyone. You moved efficiently between projects, and I can tell you were
very thoughtful in giving feedback. Now please move back to your original seat. Your
sheet will have all of the feedback sections filled out. Now you have 10 minutes to read

your feedback, and to fill out the self-reflection on the back. When we reconvene well
talk about that experience and any closing thoughts you have on our reading of The
Great Gatsby.
(Students work quietly at their desks. This time is meant to allow them to take note of
their peers comments as well as to intentionally think about their projects and what they
might have done differently with them. Since we want to finally close out the book, the
time also allows them to generate any lingering questions or thoughts they would like to
share.)
4. [ 18 ] Step 5: Gallery Walk Debrief & Final Gatsby Discussion
(Refer to slide.)
Gatsbys Funeral
How did this process go?
What questions did it spark about the text?
What questions do you want to discuss?
So youve moved around a lot. Youve seen each others projects, and youve spent some
time reflecting on your own. What did you think? Was this a good way to share your
work? What questions did it spark about the text? What lingering questions are you
unsatisfied with since perhaps we did not cover them in the Socratic Seminar? Several of
you made known in your SS self-reflection that you wished you had ben able to discuss
the end of the novel more. I would like to step back and let you all take control of the
conversation here, but Ill listen.
(If no one is eager to volunteer, I will note some positive characteristics of the projects I
observed as I walked around. Otherwise, I would like for this to be a time during which I
am not steering the discussion, unless I am offering a clarifying question to get them
thinking off of one another more. I would like to get a sense of how effective they
thought the sharing process was as well as what they learned from their classmates ideas.
I think a student will bring it up anyway, but I will be ready to discuss the final lines of
the book, in case there is a lull in the conversation, or if our discussion of the novel still
feels incomplete.
Slide:
The End
What does it mean?
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
It eluded us then, but thats no mattertomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms
farther. . . . And then one fine morningSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne
back ceaselessly into the past.
(Id like for us to get the idea of humanitys pursuit of things that may be perpetually out
of our grasp and whether or not the students agree with this idea that Fitzgerald develops.

Otherwise I will bring the discussion to a close. If we do not get to thoroughly wrap up
the discussion on this note, there is always the opportunity to reference this text and its
ideas in the lessons that follow through text-to-text connections.)
2. Closure:
Michael what is one way you think about the novel differently because of the activities
we have done today?
Remember that your Vocabulary Quiz on Week 8 words is next class, and please leave
your Narratives, Visual Aids, and Self-Reflections on your desk.

Name:_______________
Date: __________
Great Gatsby Final Project
Sharing
Do Now:
1. Explain the main theme that you took from Gatsby and applied to contemporary times for your
project?

2. Which part of your project are you most proud of / What are you most excited to share?

ROUND ONE
A Cool Thing:
A Question:
How Clear and Relevant Is The Theme to GG and Today? (Circle, 3 = Most Relevant)
1
2
3
Explain:
ROUND TWO
A Cool Thing:
A Question:
How Clear and Relevant Is The Theme to GG and Today? (Circle, 3 = Most Relevant)
1
2
3
Explain:

ROUND THREE
A Cool Thing:
A Question:
How Clear and Relevant Is The Theme to GG and Today? (Circle, 3 = Most Relevant)
1
2
3
Explain:

Self-Reflection:
How Clear and Relevant Is Your Theme to GG and Today?
Explain:

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What about your peers projects was interesting or inspirational?
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What is one thing you would change to make your project even better than it is right now?
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What questions about The Great Gatsby did the Gallery Walk spark for you, or what lingering
questions do you still have that you want to discuss?