This lesson plan aims to help students prepare for a benchmark essay on Romeo and Juliet. Students will journal about how they would change a major event and its effects. They will then discuss who or what they blame for the deaths and use a planning sheet to organize their arguments. The lesson concludes with explaining the introduction components and giving work time for students to draft their introductions.
This lesson plan aims to help students prepare for a benchmark essay on Romeo and Juliet. Students will journal about how they would change a major event and its effects. They will then discuss who or what they blame for the deaths and use a planning sheet to organize their arguments. The lesson concludes with explaining the introduction components and giving work time for students to draft their introductions.
This lesson plan aims to help students prepare for a benchmark essay on Romeo and Juliet. Students will journal about how they would change a major event and its effects. They will then discuss who or what they blame for the deaths and use a planning sheet to organize their arguments. The lesson concludes with explaining the introduction components and giving work time for students to draft their introductions.
Lesson Plan: Romeo and Juliet Benchmark Planning/Writing
Lesson Objective(s) SWBAT express and discuss their thoughts/feelings on the
themes/events of Romeo and Juliet and get started on their Benchmark essay Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey
complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2.A
Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and
information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Materials Needed Digital writer’s notebooks, PDF of R&J text, planning
(Physical and/or worksheet, and introduction notes (on Google Classroom) Digital)
Time Learning Task Methods or Procedures
20 Daily bell work prompt ● Attendance ● Check in, share stories or feelings, give time for students to get their class materials ready ● Ask students to pull out their writer’s notebooks and a writing utensil to journal their answer to the prompt (written on PowerPoint): If you could change any major event from Romeo and Juliet, which would it be and how would you make that change? What would the initial outcome of your change be and how would it affect the rest of the story? Use specific details from the story to make your changes as believable as possible. 5 Run through learning targets Teacher will read through the learning targets and make any class announcements
● I can prepare notes and create an
outline for my bench mark essay. ● I can work on my slides for my Renaissance magazine.
10 Discussion on essay prompt ● Teachers will lead a discussion
on the essay prompt: Who or what do you blame for the deaths in Romeo and Juliet? ● Teachers will ask students to do the “waterfall chat” activity by writing their answer and explanation in the chat but waiting to hit ENTER until told to do so. There will then be a discussion on who/what students blame the least, who they kind of blame, and who they blame the most. 30 Planning sheet ● Teachers will introduce the planning sheet ● Students will then go into breakout rooms either on their own, in pairs, or in groups of three and work on the sheet ● The goal is for students to figure out who/what they are blaming based off of the events of the play
40 Introduction explanation and ● Teachers will explain the
work time introduction sheet and have students read off each component and tell teacher where to highlight that part of the sample paragraph ● Students will then go back into their breakout rooms to work on their introduction paragraphs, with teachers popping in and out to check in/answer questions