Teacher's Lessons
These are my lesson plans for teachers to follow.
2014-2015
January 5-March 12, 2015 How Media Influences My Choices
October 13-December 18, 2014 Utopian and Dystopian Societies
September 15-October 8, 2014 Evidence Based Claims with Cesar Chavez
August 11-September 12, 2014 Close Reading Unit with the North and South Pole
Link
2013-2014:
March 10- April 4, 2014 Poetry Unit and AIMS Prep
January 6-March 10, 2014 A Long Walk to Water. Students will read the on-line text and participate in numerous Tasks as we closely read the novel. The Teacher Lesson Plans for each week are more than 20 pages, so the files will not upload. Please look under the file titled A Long Walk to Water to view simplified lessons for each Task.
October 15-December 19, 2013 Utopian and Dystopian Societies
5 Text: The Giver, The Pedestrian, There Will Come Soft Rain (poem and short story), The Lottery
http://www.ltftraining.org/Portals/ltftraining/docs/english/Giver%20Vocab%20Lesson%20Final_rev.pdf (website for vocabulary word PPT)
September 9-October 8, 2013 Evidence Based Questions via Cesar Chavez
Forming Evidence Based Claims
Making Evidence Based Claims
Organizing Claim Worksheet (2 Point and 3 Point Claims)
Sept 23-27, 2013 Assessment: 5 paragraph Argumentative Essay with a 3-point claim
September 3-6, 2013 Lesson Plan: Compare and Contrast Text Structure (see file below)
August 12-September 6, 2013 Reading Closely for Details Evidence Based Questions via North and South Pole Exploreres
August 5-9, 2013 First Week of School Lessons
2012-2013:
January 28-March 8, 2013 Common Core Courage Unit- read Mississippi Trial, 1955 (see Courage Folder)
January 7-25, 2013 Research Unit-Students are assigned a famous African American person to research
November -December 2012 Common Core Perseverance Unit- read Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (Periods 2-6) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Period 7) (See Perseverance Unit)
October 22 - November 2, 2012 Martin Luther King Propaganda and Elements of Literarcy
October 16-19, 2012 Propaganda Vocabulary
October 1-10, 2012 Poetry Slam
September 17- 28, 2012 Drawing Conclusions
September 4-14, 2012 Elements of Poetry
August 27-31, 2012 Describe a character
August 13-24, 2012 Context Clues for multiple meanings and new vocabualry