Aubrey Eder

Day 6 - Amy Tan

September 23, 2014
Setting:
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A seventh grade, English 7 class

Objective:
- Students will be able to picks out themes from a text.
Standards:
- Standard 7.2.1.a.iii. Use Key Ideas and Details to Analyze how particular
elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or
plot). (CCSS: RL.7.3)
- Standard 7.2.1.a.ii. Use Key Ideas and Details to Determine a theme or central
idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an
objective summary of the text. (CCSS: RL.7.2)
Anticipatory Set:
- Students will begin class by turning in their reflections to their class folder. This
will be written on the board, but I will remind them as they walk in. Then, also
written on the board, students will begin class with a reading quiz for American
Born Chinese.
Lesson Breakdown:
- 10 minutes: Anticipatory Set
- 5 minutes: Review quiz and reading due
- 20 minutes: Lecture on theme with guided notes and short quiz afterwards
- 5 minutes: Pass out Amy Tan's "Half and Half"
- 25 minutes: Read through Amy Tan's "Half and Half" as a class while looking at
how to find themes in the text.
- 10 minutes: Closure
Closure:
Go back to the presentation and review with the class. Then go over the homework
assignment. Students will read the story, "Yeh-Shen" by Ai-Ling Louie and complete the
theme assignment that goes with it. We will go through the assignment together as a
class.
Resources needed: Reading quiz, theme presentation, guided notes, theme quiz, copies of
"Half and Half", assignment for homework and "Yeh-Shen" (in the class anthology).