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Grade/Subject: 7
MARCH 10/11
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Listen to and read/follow along with the short story The Hockey Sweater
2. Discuss and identify important fictional and short story elements present in the short story
3. Create a plot diagram/map identifying and describing important plot elements such as climax and resolution.
4. Dramatize a tableau/freeze frame of a particular plot element in groups of 2-3 to demonstrate understanding of short
story plot elements (also gets students moving).
ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:
Group and student cooperation (who can
What are the key plot elements in the short story The
and cannot work well together)
Hockey Sweater? How can these be mapped on a
plot diagram?
Story has to be read out loud for the LL
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PROCEDURE
Monday (55 minutes)
Free Reading (15-20 minutes)
Stretch (especially Monday morning)
Review (5 minutes)
Review plot, groups (especially with 7-20 and 7-23) may have to remake groups with 7-20 (if they cant remember-not
written in my notebook)
Practice (5-10 minutes)
Practice tableaus (some classes may need more time than others)
Presentations (5-10 minutes)
Groups will present (with about 1 minute in between so that I can prep and mark using my checklist)
Closure:
Vocabulary/Quote of the Day (remaining time, just in case)
Depending on time go through some vocabulary or a quote of the day with the class
Tuesday (50 minutes)
Free Reading (15-20 minutes)
Stretch
Review
Worksheet from Thursday (protagonist, antagonist, point of view, conflict, THEME, motive)
The memoir that we began on Thursday (on the worksheet) is going to serve as pre-writing for a polished paragraph
assignment that we will write the students are going to write the beginning/opening/hook paragraph for a memoir (will
it be typed?)
Provide 3 memoir writing prompts to help those who struggle with starting
7-23 (missed class yesterday) and anyone left from 7-12 or 7-20 maybe during free reading instead?
Quote of the Day/Vocabulary/Fiction Terms Matching Contest
**May be missing some students because tomorrow is the beginning of Spring Break