Drawing Evidence from Sources Live Lesson

Author: Michael Meza

Date: 10/28/21

Lesson Overview

Subjects: English

Topic: Expository Essay

Grade Level: 10

Objective: Students will learn how to draw evidence from a text to support their conclusion.

Summary: After I go over the rules of the Live Lesson I will play a clip from Jurassic Park. We

will talk about it and I will have the students come up with a conclusion based on the clip. After

they have a conclusion I will put up a Nearpod question asking them what evidence they can

find to support their conclusion.

The next activity will be us reading a flash fiction piece, “The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner.

We will discuss elements that can lead us to the main idea. Then they will answer 2 final

Nearpod questions, “what is the main idea of the story” and “what evidence can they find to

support their conclusion.”

We will close with an overview of the takeaways for the lesson.

Implementation

Learning Context: This lesson will be held before the start of Unit 4 and the expository essay.

Teaching Strategies: Movie clip, question/answer, discussion, lecturing, probing questions

Time Allotment: 45 minutes

Sample Student Products: Students will write down their answers in Nearpod activity
Procedure

Anticipatory Set: Nearpod short answer Activity questions - “What is something from the clip that

could lead a person to have that feeling?” “What is the main idea of the story?” “What evidence

do you have to support the main idea that you came up with?”

Modeling: Demonstrating drawing evidence with examples of how people come up with fan

theories on movies.

Guided Practice: We watch the Jurassic Park clip together and come to a conclusion together

through discussion.

Independent Practice: Students read the flash fiction story and come up with the main idea and

evidence on their own.

Closure: Go over the most important items from the lesson

Follow up: The Unit 4 expository essay rough draft comes fast. I will be looking at their rough

drafts to see if they correctly drew evidence from their chosen stories/poems.

Materials and Resources

Instructional Materials: Nearpod short answer activities

Resources: Youtube Jurassic Park clip, Word Document of Mona Gardner’s “The Dinner Party”

Standards

Standards:

CCSS-ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.9 - Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support

analysis, reflection, and research.

CCSS-ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 - Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support

analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.