Meridian High School

ELA Biweekly Lesson Plans

Subject/Grade: English IV/12th Teacher: Mollie C. Reeves Begin Date: 8/8/16 End Date: 8/19/16

Theme/Topic: Seniorismness (Or, How to Be a Senior and Succeed)

Monday/ Wednesday/ Friday/ Tuesday/ Thursday/

Tuesday Thursday Monday Wednesday Friday
Standards L.12.1b Resolve issues of complex or contested usage, consulting references (e.g., Merriam-Websters
Dictionary of English Usage, Garners Modern American Usage) as needed.
W.12.3a Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its
significance, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters;
create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
W.12.3b Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot
lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
W.12.3c Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a
coherent whole and build toward a particular tone and outcome (e.g., a sense of mystery, suspense,
growth, or resolution).
W.12.3d Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture
of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
W.12.3e Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or
resolved over the course of the narrative.
W.12.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and
shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Learning I can create a rsum and adapt it to fit real-life situations and opportunities.
Goals I can participate in active reading through annotation.
I can identify stereotypes and analyze their effects on individuals and society as a whole.
I can properly format a paper as required in college.
I can examine the issue of human relationships and the age of technology in which they live
and compose a response to it.
Vocabulary KIM work words #1imperialism, despotic, dominion, reverently, incredulously, and skeptical
KIM work words #2disarray, genealogy, abrogate, beatific, and conjoin

Text- TO BE DISCUSSED AT PLC MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, 8/10/16, AND ADDED TO PLANS

Dependent THEREAFTER.
Questions

Bell Ringer/ ACT prep Allusion exercise KIM work #1 Picture prompt SAT prep
Warm-Up questionI grew I was surprised quick-check Which of your question
(5 minutes) up with buckets, his nose was not KIM work #1 friends do you Because King
shovels, and nets growing like ___. study time think will be the Philips desire
waiting by the Pinocchios; It is from The most famous? to make Spain
Adventures of Pinocchio,
back door; hip- SAT prep Why? the dominant
written by Carlo Collodi.
waders hanging in questionHoping power in
the closet; tide When she lost her to ___ the dispute, Pretend that you sixteenth-
table charts job, she acted like a negotiators are in your 70s or century Europe
covering the ___, and refused to proposed a 80s. Complain ran counter to
refrigerator door; buy anything that compromise that Queen
about kids these
and a microscope wasnt necessary. they felt would be Elizabeths
was sitting on the ___ to both labor days. insistence on
Scrooge; It is from A
kitchen table. Christmas Carol, written and management. autonomy for
1. A. NO CHANGE by Charles Dickens. (A) enforce.. England, ___
B. waiting, by the back useful
was ___.
door, (B) end..divisive
(A) reconciliation..
C. waiting by the back (C) overcome..
assured
door, unattractive
(B)
D. waiting by the back (D) extend..
warfare..avoidable
door satisfactory
(C) ruination..
(E) resolve..
impossible
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2. F. NO CHANGE acceptable (D)

G. would sit conflict..inevitable
H. sitting (E)
J. sat diplomacy..simple

KIM work #2
quick-check
KIM work #2
study time
Direct * Teacher * Introduce KIM * Teach basic MLA Facilitate rsum * Return basic
Instruction introduction work, using Weekly formatcorrect assessment MLA format
(15 minutes) PowerPoint Vocabulary Work header, indentions, workday examples and
Presentation (23 handout font, spacing, etc. comment
slides) * Assign KIM work * Teach annotation * Teach TP-
background words #1 * Read The Myth CASTT, using
information, imperialism, of the Latin TP-CASTT
overview of despotic, dominion, Woman: I Just Met handout
general reverently, a Girl Named * Read The
goals/objectives, incredulously, and Maria Day the
specific academic skeptical (due * Assign KIM work Saucers Came
and behavioral Friday, 8/12) words #2
expectations, * Distribute student disarray,
question-and- workbooks
genealogy,
answer session * Read Shooting an
* Distribute Ms. abrogate, beatific,
Elephant (pages
Reeves and conjoin (due
1318-1326), using
Classroom Friday, 8/19)
supplemental audio
Procedures
handout and clip
explain/discuss,
using
accompanying
PowerPoint
Presentation (11
slides)
* Distribute
English IV
Common Syllabus
handout and
explain/
discuss
* This is your
senior year
overview
* Begin rsum
unit, using
PowerPoint
Presentation
(Resumes,
Purdue University
Writing Lab, 21
slides), Rsum
Writing 101
handout
(http://www.colleg
eboard.com/stude
nt/plan/high-
school/36957.
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html), and
Traditional
Rsum Example
handout (The
OWL at Purdue)
* Assign rsum
assessment (due
Thursday, 8/25)
Shared * Student Shooting an The Myth of the Rsum Groups of four
Practice information Elephant Critical Latin Woman: I assessment will answer one
(15 minutes) exercise in pairs Reading Questions Just Met a Girl workday of six poetry
* Rsum handout in groups of Named Maria analysis
Worksheet four reading Quadrant D questions in
handout in pairs comprehension/ reference to
Quadrants A, B, literary analysis The Day the
Quadrants A and and C questions in groups Saucers
B of four Came, using
Easy Questions
Quadrants A, B, for Analyzing
and C Poetry handout,
and present
their answers to
the class

Quadrants A,
B, and C
Independent * Word search * Shooting an * Vocabulary quiz * MLA format * Informal
Practice * Rsum quiz Elephant quiz #1 exerciseTSW writing
(10 minutes) * Vocabulary builder * TSW annotate create and print an response
Quadrants A, B, exercise (page 314 The Myth of the example of basic The Day the
and C in workbook) Latin Woman: I MLA format Saucers Came
Just Met a Girl * Rsum provides
Quadrants A, B, Named Maria assessment readers with
and C workday social
Quadrants A, B, commentary
and C Quadrants A, B, regarding
C, and D human
relationships
and the age of
technology in
which we live.
What is the
speaker of the
poem
suggesting
about both?
* Vocabulary
quiz #2

Quadrants A,
C, and D
Closure Reflective journal Reflective journal (a) Reflective journal Reflective journal Reflective
(5 minutes) (a) entry and (b) entry and (b) (a) entry and (b) (a) entry and (b) journal (a) entry
discussionHow discussionIf you discussionHave discussionList and (b)
are the rsum had been in George you ever three things you discussion
skills that you Orwells place, experienced learned for the first Have you ever
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learned today would you have stereotyping on the time this week. Be missed out on
relevant to your killed the elephant? basis of your age, specific. something
future plans? Why or why not? gender, ethnicity, important
religion, or dress? because you
Elaborate. were
preoccupied
with something
unimportant?
Elaborate.
Assessments Rsum quiz (classwork grade), Shooting an Elephant quiz (classwork grade), vocabulary builder
exercise (classwork grade), KIM work #1 (homework grade), vocabulary quiz #1 (classwork grade), MLA
format exercise (classwork grade), informal writing response (classwork grade), KIM work #2 (homework
grade), vocabulary quiz #2 (classwork grade), and rsum assessment (test grade).

Inclusion Interventions/Modifications:
Students will work in pairs and groups for peer
teaching
Students will scaffold based on prior knowledge
Auditory aids will be used as supplements to instruction
Visual aids will be used as supplements to instruction
Students may come back or work one-on-one with
teacher as needed

Homework Accountability: KIM work #1 (due Friday, 8/12), study for vocabulary quiz #1 (Friday, 8/12), KIM work #2
(due Friday, 8/19), study for vocabulary quiz #2 (Friday, 8/19), and rsum assessment (due Thursday, 8/25).

Materials/ Resources: Paper, pencils, pens, highlighters, overhead projector, English IV Common Syllabus handout,
Rsum Writing 101 handout, Traditional Rsum Example handout, Rsum Worksheet handout, Prentice Hall
Literature: The British Tradition textbook, Shooting an Elephant Critical Reading Questions handout, Prentice Hall
Literature: All-in-One Workbook, TP-CASTT handout, and Easy Questions for Analyzing Poetry handout.