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Teacher: Ms. Hankey School: Centaurus High School Grade Level: 11

Content Area: English
Title: Reading Day and Acting Troop Lesson # 4 of 20
Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson: (Write Content Standards directly from the
standard)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3
Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements
of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the
characters are introduced and developed).

Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)

I can: Today I will be a close and active reader. I will reflect on the context of the play in
relation to my reading.

List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning target associated with each assessment)
- Post chapter reading notes: students will reflect on what they read after every few
scenes and or acts. There are expectations for this assignment that students know
because this reading process is routine in the classroom. They have done this before.

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Planned Lesson Activities
Name and Purpose of Lesson- as it relates to
the unit
Approx. Time and Materials
How long do you expect the activity to last and
what materials will you need?
Anticipatory Set
The hook to grab students attention. These
are actions and statements by the teacher to
relate the experiences of the students to the
objectives of the lesson, To put students into a
receptive frame of mind.
To focus student attention on the lesson.
To create an organizing framework for the
ideas, principles, or information that is to
follow (advanced organizers)
An anticipatory set is used any time a different
activity or new concept is to be introduced.
Procedures
(Include a play-by-play account of what
students and teacher will do from the minute
they arrive to the minute they leave your
classroom. Indicate the length of each segment
of the lesson. List actual minutes.)
Indicate whether each is:
-teacher input
-modeling
-questioning strategies
-guided/unguided:
-whole-class practice
-group practice
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Reading Introduction
This is an important lesson because they get reading time in class with a difficult
text, but students will also be assigned acting troops for the Troop assignment.
This assignment is going to help highlight the important moments in the text.
50 minutes
Assignment sheet for the Troops
Have a troop signup sheet for the class done before the end of the class.
Reading time
(25 minutes)
Students will read their text for their anticipatory set. This may not be the best
hook, but I want them to have time to struggle with the text in class so that the
information is still being received.
Teacher Actions Student Actions
1. Reading time. The teacher will 1. Read and thoughtfully reflect on
give any kind of announcement their reading (25 minutes)
that the students need to hear.
2. Transition into silent reading
time.
3. Walk around and help with any
questions that students have.
*if there is a problem area in the text
that a lot of students are having a hard
time with then it would be a great
opportunity to work through it as a
class.
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-individual practice 4. Introduce Troop assignment (15 2. Listen and take notes on the
-check for understanding minutes) be sure that they have a copy assignment sheet of the Troop
-other of the assignment sheet in front of them assignment. (15 minutes)
to annotate while they hear the
directions.

Last ten minutes will be getting into Last ten minutes will be getting into
groups and assigning times to present. groups and assigning times to present.
Closure Ticket out the door:
Those actions or statements by a teacher that
are designed to bring a lesson presentation to Students will have a group, scene, and date to present by the time they leave.
an appropriate conclusion. Used to help
students bring things together in their own
minds, to make sense out of what has just been
taught. Any Questions? No. OK, lets move
on is not closure. Closure is used:
To cue students to the fact that they have
arrived at an important point in the lesson or
the end of a lesson.
To help organize student learning
To help form a coherent picture and to
consolidate.

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Lesson Reflections:

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