Technology Lesson Plan

Unit Title or Big Idea/Concept/Skill: To Kill a Mockingbird

Lesson Title or focusing skill and/or concept: Theme
Critical Learning Objectives being taught in this lesson:
SWBAT:
Cognitive (know/understand):
1. Students will understand why it is important to understand an authors theme
2. Students will know the definition of theme
3. Students will know how to identify theme
Affective (feel/value) and/or Non-Cognitive:
4. Students will feel confident that they understand one of Harper Lees themes in To Kill a
Mockingbird
Performance (do):
5. Students will be able to identify examples of one of the themes in To Kill a Mockingbird
6. Students will be able to explain their examples of theme
SOLs:
10.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze literary texts of different cultures and eras.
e) Identify universal themes prevalent in the literature of different cultures.
CCSs:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course
of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an
objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as
well as inferences drawn from the text.
Methods of Assessment:
PowerPoint on theme: In reviewing the students created PowerPoint on their theme, I can
assess if the student was able to identify the theme in the novel and was able to connect
the theme to the real world.
Procedures/Instructional Strategies
Beginning Room Arrangement: Students seated in rows facing the front of the class
1 Bridge/Hook/Opening to lesson:
As we started reading To Kill a Mockingbird we reviewed the themes we will be looking for as
we read. I explain to the students the importance of theme and remind them that theme is a
particular subject or issue that is discussed often in a piece of literature (I have already conducted
a full-fledged lesson on theme and its purpose).

2 Explain Instructions
I explain that the students are to individually use their To Kill a Mockingbird books to find three
examples of one of the themes we are tracing throughout the novel. On the first slide they are to
type out the entire quote and cite it properly. On the second slide they are to explain how the
quote they find relates to their chosen theme. On the third slide they are to find three examples of
the theme in the real world.
3 Individual Work
The students were given time to individually complete the assignment. As they worked I
circulated and helped the students find the parts in the book where they remembered seeing their
chosen theme. If the student seemed off-track on their quote I had them explain to me why they
thought that quote was fitting. The student then often struggled to do so and saw their own fault.
Other times though the students explained the quote to me and their reasoning and I was able to
see things in a different light- I love learning from my students!
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