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E-10-HONORS: PERIOD 5
CURRICULUM: Based on ODE English/Language Arts Content Standards; Expanded to include mapping from the Common Core Curriculum Maps for English Language Arts, Grades 9-12; Incorporating Rigorous Lessons from NMSI and LTF
INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSE: To develop and hone critical thinking and analysis skills; To prepare students for entrance into either Grade Level 11 English or one of the English AP classes, as well as the preparation to successfully complete standardized and advanced testing; To train students for college and/or career readiness
DIAGNOSTIC and SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: Students in this class will be exposed to a wide range of both Grade Level and High- Level English skills. A few of the Grade Level skills (those determined by the FHS English department) will be assessed diagnostically and summatively through the formal district-approved SLO tests. The rest of the Grade-Level skills and the High-Level skills to which the students will be exposed will be assessed through test models provided by NMSI and LTF.
On a side note, however, despite some of these students having taken FHS Grade 9 Honors, much of the presumed scaffolded FHS curriculum and the incorporated NMSI/LTF Grade 10 Honors curriculum and materials used in this class are foreign to them. Often assessing their background knowledge requires only a simple "Have you ever heard of ______?" or "Did your English teachers ever teach or explain ____________ to you?"
CLASSROOM COMPOSITE:
Ethnicities other than White/Caucasian: 1 Black
HIGH LEVEL ABILITIES: 1 Gifted in Reading and Writing; 3 Others Identified as having superior cognitive ability (3 other students have been identified as Gifted; however, they are Gifted in Social Studies, Math, and Science)
DISABILITIES: None
HEALTH ISSUES THAT COULD AFFECT CLASS INSTRUCTION: 12 with health issues that vary in severity-- 3 with seasonal allergies; 2 with asthma; 1 with environmental allergies; 1 with bee-sting allergies; 1 with lens implants; 1 prone to migraines; 1 with multiple health disorders including those relating to GIS; 2 are insulin dependent diabetics
ACADEMICS: All have passed either Grade 9 English or Grade 9 English Honors.
At some point during the school year, all students will be expected to take the FHS English Department's Pre- and Post- SLO Tests, the State of Ohio's Graduation Test, and the national PSAT.
Direct and Indirect Characterization
Grade Level:
10
Subject:
English and Language Arts
Topic:
Direct and Indirect Characterization
Objective:
Students will analyze a character based on direct and indirect characterization techniques. Students will be asked to consider the ways in which characterization can help link meaning to a piece of literature.
Other Information:
Students will use several excerpts from Yann Martel's Life of Pi to complete the tasks related to learning and mastering this English skill.
The excerpts have been taken from an online text database and edited for length and relevance to the lesson. The paragraphs also been numbered to provide organization for easier discussion and analysis. Teacher will read most of the passages to the students in order to keep pace for the lesson's projected time span.
Lesson will begin as whole group instruction, then shift to small groups on the last day of activity. The final assessments will include both textual and visual answers.
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Prep:
Background information on the religion and literature of India; the study of a classic Indian tale (excerpt from the Ramayana in the Grade 10 textbook).
Materials:
Handouts of chapter excerpts to read and to use for analysis
Worksheets to organize character information
For final lesson: Plan diverse student groups (varying abilities); Rearrange desks to accomodate group activity
Students' own Post-it notes (for Formative Assessment of knowledge learned in lesson)
Posters with magnetic strips (o they can be placed onto the magnetic white board; Post-it Notes will be placed on these posters)
