RU Teacher Education Lesson Plan Format

Candidate Name: Chandler Phipps Date: 3/29/19 Grade Level:

10

Lesson Title/Topic: Pop culture as poetry/Extended work time for symbolic crests

Standards:
10.2 The student will analyze, produce, and examine similarities and differences
between visual and verbal media messages.

a) Use media, visual literacy, and technology skills to create products.

Specific Observable Objective(s):

Students will:

- Use technology to research a vine, meme, or other school-appropriate internet

resource to create a poem.

- Share written poems with the class, and identify symbols used in the poems of
others.

- Continue to work on their symbolic crest activities.

Essential Vocabulary:
-Meme
-Psychology
-Pop-culture
-Symbol
-Poem
-Symbolic Crest

Assessment:
Through creating the meme assignment, students will show ability to create an
original product which contains uses of symbolism and a link to pop-culture and the
appeal which pop-culture has to society. This will allow students to link the
symbolism of memes to the real-life appeal of memes to enhance understanding of
the taught concepts.

Student Considerations:
During the lesson, I will repeat any directions as necessary, and work hands-on with any
students who need extra assistance during the activities in order to keep all students on
task and facilitate learning. Provided poems will be read out loud multiple times to
accommodate all appropriate students.

Instructional Resources, Materials, and Technology:

- Cell phones
- Chromebooks
- Papers for poem writing
- Symbolic crest activities

PROCEDURES:

The Beginning (a.k.a. Anticipatory Set):

Bellringer Journal Prompt: Why are memes so popular?
Discuss journal prompt with students. In the spirit of looking at symbolism, today’s
activity will be about internet memes. Specifically, what makes memes appealing to
us, and how do they do so? Explain that memes are, on the surface, nothing more
than obscure pictures or short clips, but each adopts a certain meaning that, in time,
becomes universally understood. From that point on, the meme can be used in a
variety of situations to communicate different ideas, and it takes little more than a
mere reference to said meme for the idea to be able to cue itself up in our minds. In
a sense, memes are one of the easiest-to-understand examples of symbolism
because of how frequently our current society adopts them in order to communicate
ideas.
(5-10 minutes)

The Middle:
Today’s activity will be fairly simple so that students may also have extended class
time to work on their symbolic crest activities, which are still to be due on Monday.
Students will take their favorite meme (that is school-appropriate) and convert it
into the form of a poem using a minimum of 5 lines. The style of poetry can be any
that they wish, and they must also give the instructor some indication of what
original meme inspired their poem by either showing the instructor directly or
providing a URL for the instructor to follow when grading the assignment. Students
will have as long as they need to during this period to work on their meme poems.
(20-25 minutes)

The End (a.k.a. Closing):

Any students who finish with their meme poem assignment early will have
whatever class time remains after they have finished to continue working on their
symbolic crest assignment in class. Colored pencils and other materials for
decorating the crests will be available to students in the room, and the instructor
will consistently urge students to use their class time wisely so that they do not have
to work on as much of the crest assignment over the weekend. Crests can be turned
in early if any student is able to finish theirs before the end of the period.
Instructions for both assignments for the day will be displayed on the smartboard
for students to refer to as needed.
(15-20 minutes)