Woodland Hills High School Lesson Plan s21

WOODLAND HILLS HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLAN SAS and Understanding By Design Template

Name Jill Keresztury Date 10-28 to 11/1/13 Length of Lesson multi-week Content Area Gifted Edline was updated this week: My Class website was updated this week:

STAGE I – DESIRED RESULTS LESSON TOPIC:Middle Ages - Feudalism, Fables, Creative BIG IDEAS: Writng, The Black Plague, Mathematics (Content standards, assessment anchors, eligible content) objectives, and skill focus)

• Comprehension requires and enhances critical thinking and is constructed through the intentional interaction between reader and text • Writing is a means of documenting thinking • Writing is a recursive process that conveys ideas, thoughts and feelings • Purpose, topic and audience guide types of writing

UNDERSTANDING GOALS (CONCEPTS): ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: • How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response? Students will understand: • Essential content, literary elements and devices • What role does writing play in our lives? inform meaning • How do we develop into effective writers? • Textual structure, features and organization inform meaning • Acquiring and applying a robust vocabulary assists in constructing • To what extent does the writing process contribute to meaning the quality of writing? • Focus, content, organization, style, and conventions work together to impact writing quality • Writing improves through the recursive process of revising and editing

VOCABULARY: Define words within various novels, short STUDENT OBJECTIVES (COMPETENCIES/OUTCOMES): stories, poems, plays Students will be able to: • Articulate connections between and among words based on meaning, content, and context to distinguish nuances or connotations • Analyze the context of literal, figurative, and idiomatic vocabulary to clarify meaning • Generalize the use of academic vocabulary across disciplines • Use grade appropriate resources to confirm and extend meaning of vocabulary

STAGE II – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: PERFORMANCE TASK:Complete project and perform #1. Graphic Organizers metacognitive activities--create shield, perform research, read #2. Think-Pair-Share fiction and nonfiction #3. Summarizing Main Ideas Others: STAGE III: LEARNING PLAN INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND INTERVENTIONS: ASSIGNMENTS: PROCEDURES: RESOURCES: • Guided notes Complete assignments as Active Engagements used: Handouts, books, • Individual teacher/ given in timely fashion #1. Note-Taking computers student conferences #2. Graphic Organizers • Parent contact Others: • Guidance counselor CONTENT AREA contact Describe usage: READING: • RTI referral

Fiction and non-fiction Scaffolding used: pieces #1. Guided Notes #2 . Build on Prior Knowledge Others:

Describe usage: Connection to Middle Ages versus present day

Other techniques used: Review of literary terms

MINI LESSON: Mathematics related to grade level; grammar