Story+Elements+2

** Time: 30 min. ** Students will be able to: The climax and resolution of the initial question posed will occur during this lesson: “What does it take to truly know and appreciate a story?” |||| ** How will you differentiate for all the learners (ELL, Sp. Ed., poverty, gifted, etc.) in your class? **  (What will you do? What do you expect students to do? Include set induction and closing.)   ||  ** Time Allotment **  ||
 * Strategy Lesson Plan **
 * Co-Teachers:** Janelle Townley & Jon Emerson
 * Instructional Strategy:** Reading for Meaning
 * **Desired Results** ||
 * ** Relevant Minnesota or Nat’l Content Standards: ** I. READING AND LITERATURE //D. Literature: The student will actively engage in the reading process and read, understand, respond to, analyze, interpret, evaluate and appreciate a wide variety of fiction, poetic and nonfiction texts.// 1. Read, analyze and evaluate traditional, classical and contemporary works of literary merit from American literature. 4. Evaluate the impact of an author’s decisions regarding word choice, point of view, style and literary elements. 6. Analyze and evaluate the relationship between and among elements of literature: character, setting, plot, tone, symbolism, rising action, climax, falling action, point of view, theme and conflict/resolution. 9. Analyze the characteristics of literary forms. 10. Interpret the effect of literary and structural devices. |||| ** Learning Objective: Key Understanding(s) you intend students to obtain: **
 * Perceive a story for more than face value.
 * The different variations of characters
 * Impact of point-of-view in literature ||
 * **Assessment Evidence** ||
 * ** What do you want your students to __know__? **
 * Styles of narration inside a story
 * The plot terms, their use, and where they fall within a story |||||| ** What do you want students to be able to __do__? **
 * Analyze a short story’s structure
 * Compare and contrast character types
 * Be able to identify the elements and structure from a short story ||
 * ** __Group Accountability (Formative)__ **
 * How will you check to see whether your class has met your learning objectives? **
 * Refresher
 * Discussion |||||| **__ Individual Accountability (Summative) __**
 * How will you check to see if individuals have acquired the knowledge/skills you expected them to learn? **
 * A “Short Story Organizer” ||
 * **Learning Plan** ||
 * ** What key vocabulary/language will students need to know to meet the learning objective? **
 * Plot (Exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, resolution)
 * Narration (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient)
 * Character (flat and round) |||| ** How will you teach this key vocabulary to enable students to meet the learning objective? **
 * Through analysis and identification of/in the text
 * Discussion ||
 * ** What is the Essential/Guiding Question(s) for this Lesson? (It should correlate to your learning objective.) **
 * Differentiation Options: questions, stems, sentence frames, strategies, etc. ** ||
 * ** Materials/Resources Required: **
 * “Tell-Tale Heart”
 * Short Story Elements Organizer ||
 * **SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES** ||
 * ** Method/Strategy **
 * ** Refresher Activity ** : Students will be given a tag that identifies them as an element of the plot. They will then line up accordingly in order of where the element falls within the plot. They will then be asked to explain the reason for their position. || 5 min ||
 * ** Reading ** : Students will be each handed a copy of the “Tell-Tale Heart” that is highlighted with different segments. The class will read through the story aloud; each student reading their highlighted segment. || 18 min ||
 * ** Post-Reading Assessment: ** Students will fill out the “Short Story Element Organizer,” identifying each of the elements within “Tell-Tale” || 7 min ||