Teacher: Austin Simpson

Date: 02 May 2016

School: Thompson Valley High School

Grade: 10th

Title of Lesson: Review and Post-Test

Content Area: English Language Arts
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Content (CDE) Standards addressed by this lesson:
3.3.a.
3.3.a.i.
Learning Target(s):
By the end of todays lesson
I will demonstrate my mastery over the concept of parallel structure.
Todays Warm-Up: Multiple Choice
The questions are modeled after questions missed consistently on the pre-assessment.
Choose the best answer to complete the sentence:
1. Not only does Kurt play a mean guitar, ____________ the drums like a maniac.
a. but also plays
b. but also play
c. but he also plays
2. We played in Kurts garage, ____________, and at prom and eventually picked up
a cult following around town.
a. the House of Blues
b. on the House of Blues
c. at the House of Blues
3. Getting ready for a show requires a lota trailer to move our equipment to the
venue, a van to shuttle the band, and ____________.
a. a big dinner to sustain us through the night.
b. a big dinner which will sustain us through the night.
c. a big dinner as a means to sustain us through the night.
Step-by-step minute procedure: (50 min classes, daily):
Warm-up and discussion of warm-up (5 min.)
Review: what makes a sentence parallel? (15 min.)
Post-test (30 min.)
Assessments:
Post-test
Rationale, why this lesson matters to teach:
Parallelism is a major concept in the English language and mastery of it can
dramatically improve sentence fluency. The CDE standards for 10th grade state that
students need to be able to demonstrate command of standard English grammar and

usage when writing and speaking; and first among the grammatical elements that 10th
graders should focus on is parallelism (standards 3.3.a. and 3.3.a.i.).
Not only is parallelism a key focus in the 10th grade ELA standards, but in the
month that I have been at TVHS, it is clear that there is a need for further parallel
structure instruction. Student writing is riddled with verb tense switches and,
predominantly, with lists that are not parallel (e.g. trains and a bus are public
transportation rather than trains and buses are public transportation). Parallelism is an
easy grammatical element to lose track of, especially when trying to construct longer,
more complex sentences.