Modern Living 15 Days

Modern Living 15 Days ELA Lesson Plan

Teacher: English/language Grade: 7th arts teacher

Lesson Title: “A Christmas Carol” Redone STRANDS Reading Literature, Speaking and Listening, Writing

LESSON OVERVIEW Summary of the task, challenge, investigation, career-related scenario, problem, or community link. In this lesson, students will be altering various scenes from A Christmas Carol to reflect changes of urbanization and industrialization to different eras (1850’s, 1920’s, 1950’s, and the future). By doing so, students will study the characteristics of a drama, read closely to determine what the text says explicitly, and analyze how setting shapes the characters and plot. In the second lesson, students will work to improve their communication skills during dress rehearsals of our STEM-adapted version of A Christmas Carol. Instruction will focus on enhancing vocal projection, speaking at an appropriate rate, and using gestures to propel the action and reveal aspects of character.

MOTIVATOR Hook for the week unit or supplemental resources used throughout the week. (PBL scenarios, video clips, websites, literature)

The class will view a three-minute clip montage from the feature film Mona Lisa Smile, starring Julia Roberts. This story of changing societal attitudes towards education and women’s roles is set on campus of Wellesley College in the 1950’s. After viewing the clip, students will try to guess the setting. They will provide evidence of what the character’s say, what the characters do, and what the narrator/ other characters say about the characters as proof to support their analysis of setting. DAY Objectives Materials & Resources Instructional Procedures Differentiated Assessment (I can….) Instruction

1 I CAN differentiate between  “A Christmas Carol” Essential Question: What are Remediation Formative the format of a novel and a video the features of a drama that  Students will rewrite play. http://www.youtube.co make it distinct from a . m/ novel? their parts of the play to Student work displaying the reflect a specific era and differences visually in the

 watch?v=XT0Rzy5Op2Q for ease of speaking form of a graphic organizer these parts.  IPad  Prompting during writing  “A Christmas Carol” text  Heterogneous grouping ( http://www.pagebypag strategies will be used ebooks.com/Charles_Dic during writing. kens/A_Christmas_Carol/ )

Enrichment

Students choose style of template in the Inspiration app for presenting how the differences and similarities between novels and plays make best sense to them Procedures:

1. Warm-Up: Sentence Modeling

Copy the following sentence and label the parts of speech:

The darkness and the mist had vanished with it, for it was a clear, cold, winter day.

Next, create a sentence about Scrooge. Follow the same grammatical pattern as the model.

2. Lesson: Novels and Plays

a. We have read the original Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol, and now as part of this unit we are going to put on a play version of the same story. What are the features of a drama that make it distinct from a novel?

b. Gather resources.

i. Open A Christma s Carol (eBook) to page 32.

ii. Open A Christma s Carol (drama) to Scene 1, on Moodle.

iii. Open the app Inspirati on to “templat es”.

3. For homework, students will use the app Inspiration to create a graphic organizer illustrating the differences and similarities. Include the following terms: chapters, scenes, stanzas, dialogue, theme, paragraphs, lines, stage directions. 2  I CAN alter setting in a Materials Essential Question: What is text by manipulating the relationship between  Copies of the play A Remediation Formative what a character says. setting and characters? Christmas Carol,  Student choice of decade  TCAP Practice Questions  I CAN alter setting in a interpreted from the Essential Question: How (1850’s, 1920’s, 1950’s, text by manipulating original Charles Dickens does setting affect a story’s or modern day)  Class discussion what a character does. novel by Frederick plot? Gaines  Prompting  I CAN alter setting in a ------ text by manipulating Clip montage from the ------ Heterogeneous grouping what narrator/other film Mona Lisa Smile -- of students to rewrite characters say about the ( http://www.youtube.co Procedures: play character. m/watch? v=y8ucxVw8Oos) 1. Warm-Up: TCAP Practice Question: Enrichment

Students will be working in Choose how a drama teams of three for peer is different from a tutoring. The teacher will novel. also provide one-on-one assistance throughout the A A drama contains activity. a plot.

B A drama is divided into scenes.(correct answer)

C A drama tells about a speciﬁc event.

D A drama is told from third-person point of view 3 Refer to Unit Plan for Days . 3-15

“ A Christmas Carol: A Nod to the Mod”

STANDARDS Identify what you want to teach. Reference State, Common Core, ACT College Readiness Standards and/or State Competencies.

 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.3 Analyze how particular elements (lines of dialogue or incidents) of a story or drama interact, e.g. how the setting shapes the characters or plot, propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.9 Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or characters and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.7.SL.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of collaborations with diverse partners, building on the ideas of one’s teammates.

 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.7.W.7 Students contrast what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.

 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.7.SL.2 Evaluate and integrate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.