Christine Romano

Education Field Experience EDUC 230-01

Professor Suk
Spring 2016
High School Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 9
Subject: High School Language Arts

Topic: Great Expectations

Objective: The students will be able to analyze two texts and create a chart of the
similarities and differences between the two.
Standards: NJCCCS for Language Arts CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4 (NJCCCS,
2009). Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text,
including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of
specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense
of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
Materials: pencils, pens, PowerPoint slides, projector and screen, Great Expectation
book, reading packet, worksheet, Chromebook.
Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge: The students have previously read, annotated,
contrasted and compared texts for other books such as The Odyssey.
Anticipatory Set: Arrange the classroom in groups of four. Have students come in and
sit in their assigned groups. Have students log onto Kahoot and begin opening quiz game
to ensure understanding of the text they read for homework.
Input and Modeling: The teacher will provide a worksheet for the students to complete
while annotating their copy of Great Expectations. At the end of the class, the teacher will
display the worksheet on the projector and have one student per group fill in each of the
questions using Google Classroom on their Chromebook.
Student Practice and Checking for Understanding1. Upon arriving to class, each student will take out their Chromebooks and log onto
Kahoot. Here, they will take a short quiz to ensure understanding of passage
assigned for homework.
2. Then, the students will get into groups of four at most, to work on certain pages of
the text. Each group will complete the same worksheet for their assigned passage.
Differentiation:
Students will be organized in groups for the duration of the reading so that all
students learning styles are supported by their peers strengths, as well as helping one
another improve their weaknesses.

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Closure: Lesson Wrap-up and Culminating Activity

1. To ensure that the students thoroughly understand all of the reading, during the
last 10 minutes of class, one student per group will log onto Google classroom
and submit their answers for all of the class to see and utilize.
2. At the end of the unit study, the students will write an essay on the similarities and
differences between the two versions of Great Expectations, (graphic novel versus
the original), to conclude their capability of reading, annotating, and
understanding texts that include difficult vocabulary and various tones to
distinguish the class of the speakers.
References
Education, The New Jersey Department of. (2009) 2009 Core curriculum content
standards revision project. Retrieved from English language arts standards report
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/9-10/4/