Michael Potesky mini lesson EdTPA lesson plan

TPA Lesson Plan #___2____

Course: Sophomore Honors English

1. Teacher Candidate	Michael Potesky	Date Taught	N/A
Cooperating Teacher(s)	Jamee Bell David West Valentin Kucheryaviy Kendrick	School/District	Mead High School/Mead
2. Subject	Edgar Allen Poe	Field Supervisor	Diane Ball
3. Lesson Title/Focus	Gothicism in The Fall of the House of Usher	5. Length of Lesson	20 Minutes
4. Grade Level	10th grade honors

6. Academic & Content Standards (Common Core/National)	RL.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
7. Learning Objective(s)	Given the story The Fall of the House of Usher and a viewing of the trailer for the 2015 movie Crimson Peak, students will determine key words/phrases and characteristics that make up the tone and setting of a story by analyzing and describing the setting and characters in the short story The Fall of the House of Usher using a bubble map. Student Friendly LO: I can now visualize how words/phrases and characteristics of a story help determine the tone and setting of a piece of literature.
8. Academic Language demands (vocabulary, function, syntax, discourse)	Vocabulary: Setting, tone, analyze, phrase, sojourn, bubble map, metaphor, figurative, formal. Students will have already learned what most of the terms mean from previous literature units taught, all except for sojourn and bubble map. At the beginning of class, the teacher will introduce the idea of a bubble map and will go over any words in the story that students will not have understood in their reading.

9. Assessment

Formative Assessment: This lesson will revolve around students breaking up in to pairs or groups of their own choice in order to fill out two bubble maps that explain both the setting and the characters in in either just the story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe or both the story and the trailer for the film Crimson Peak. The completion of this bubble map and the subsequent sharing of the map by the group with the whole class in order to create a giant bubble map will determine if the students have received full participation points for the day. If the students are able to completely fill out the bubble maps and appropriately contribute examples to the whole-class bubble map, then they will have met the basic level of both the learning objective and the core standard by understanding what it means to identify what makes up a setting/tone. **Attach** all assessment tools for this lesson

10. Lesson Connections

This lesson is supported by this article: http://www.ric.edu/astal/litstrategies/mappingstrategies.html. This article says that students seem to better understand the setting and characters of a story better by mapping out all of their traits on a map in order to visualize the images and tones that are created by key words in a story, as opposed to simply reading the story and asking to interpret it. Also, the use of the visual (the trailer for Crimson Peak) helps those students who are primarily visual learners to gain a mental picture of what the setting of the story The Fall of the House of Usher might have been like in the mind of Poe (http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/crimson-peak-inspirations-guillermo-del-toro.php). Before this lesson, students will have already learned about what the term setting means and would have had some practice analyzing the settings of less-complex stories. They would have also been introduced to the meanings of metaphor and formal language, which are terms that may be used frequently in this lesson. After this lesson, students would go on to analyze another Poe story/poem given the tools and knowledge they have gained on how to analyze a story’s setting and characters from this lesson.

11. Instructional Strategies/Learning Tasks to Support Learning
Learning Tasks and Strategies Key teacher questions: ·        What key words or phrases describe the setting of The Fall of the House of Usher? ·        What key words or phrases describe the characters in The Fall of the House of Usher? ·        What similarities can you note between the trailer for Crimson Peak and the story The Fall of the House of Usher in terms of setting and characters? Sequenced Instruction
Teacher’s Role At the beginning of class, the teacher will refer to the learning objective (in student friendly terms) written at the front of the classroom and explain that the students will be doing an activity today. (2 minutes). Before the students start to analyze the short story Usher, the teacher will introduce the trailer for the film Crimson Peak and explain how it relates to Usher in term of Gothicism. The teacher will then show the trailer. (5 minutes) The teacher will then request that the students break up in to pairs or groups of three to begin their analysis of the setting and characters of Usher (and Crimson Peak if they wish). All students are instructed to fill out both bubble sheets with words and phrases that describe the setting of the story/film and the character in the story/film. (7-8 minutes). After the students have filled out both bubble maps, the teacher will then reclaim the students’ attention and create two giant bubble maps at the front of the class for setting and characters and will compose the maps with examples from the groups of the whole class. The teacher will then explain that all of these examples help create the overall genre that is Gothicism and these key words/phrases help create the background of this genre. (5-6 minutes).	Students’ Role Students will have out their copy of the story The Fall of the House of Usher and will listen to the teacher as he/she introduces the lesson for the day and the concept of a bubble map. After the bubble map is introduced to the students, the students are free to ask questions about the lesson and then they will watch the trailer for Crimson Peak, noting similarities between the film and Usher. After the end of the trailer, students are free to pick their partner for the bubble map assignment and are to fill out all bubbles on both maps with key words and phrases that describe the setting and characters of Usher and/or Crimson Peak. Staying in their groups, students are then encouraged to share examples of what they have written in their bubble maps with the whole class in order to create class-wide bubble maps for characters and setting. Students will then take note of how these words/phrases help define the genre of Gothicism.
Student Voice to Gather The bubble maps are great visuals for students to utilize in order to easily organize their thinking in to a clearer manner, as opposed to not writing down and organizing their thoughts. After the lesson is over, students will have the chance to share with the teacher their thoughts on the usefulness of the lesson at either the end of this lesson or at the very beginning of this lesson as a means of review and determination of whether or not the bubble-map method was effective.

12. Differentiated Instruction

Plan This lesson comes pre-differentiated with visual, kinesthetic, and auditory learners all having opportunities to benefit from at least one aspect of this lesson. Visual and auditory learners will benefit from the viewing of the movie trailer and the examples that are shared by their peers at the end of the lesson. Kinesthetic learners benefit form actively thinking of and finding examples to write down in their bubble maps with their partners. Students needing special accommodations can be provided with a transcript of the trailer viewed at the beginning of class and/or more class time to read through Usher in order to find examples to write down in their bubble maps.

13. Resources and Materials

Plan The idea for the lesson came from from here: http://www.ric.edu/astal/litstrategies/mappingstrategies.html. Teacher materials: Physical copy of The Fall of the House of Usher Whiteboard and markers Computer with classroom projector Crimson Peak trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oquZifON8Eg Student materials: Bubble map sheet(s) and pencil Physical copy of The Fall of the House of Usher

14. Management and Safety Issues

Plan In order to manage the classroom, the teacher will state his/her expectations on behavior when doing the group work and viewing the trailer. After the expectations, the teacher will walk around the room, ensuring that all groups are on task and correcting the behavior if it is not found to be the case. The teacher will keep a visual on the students when the trailer is being shown as the lights will be dimmed during the viewing. Students are expected to remain respectful of others while they are sharing their examples with the rest of the class and this will be verbalized to the students by the teacher.

15. Parent & Community Connections

Plan Parents are encouraged through a weekly classroom blog to talk with their students about the classroom activity that we do on this day and possibly come up with more examples of what makes a piece of literature Gothic. The community is involved by means of showing the movie trailer and showing the students that there are other forms of media out in the world that hold certain literature themes other than literature itself.

 The following page contains the two bubble map worksheet, but i could not get them on this post for whatever reason.