Lesson Plans
Here are a host of lesson plans that I have put together during my time as a pre-service teacher, and that, with a few tweaks here and there, I hope to carry on and teach in my future classrooms one day :). Happy exploring :).
Pre-College Writing Visual Literacy Lesson Plans
The following PowerPoints are two full one hour and fifty minute lessons that I created and led entirely on my own in the absence of my pre-college writing mentor professor, who provided me with the amazing opportunity to take over her class sessions while she attended conferences that clashed with our meeting times. These lessons built off of one another in a comprehensive, deliberate fashion; they both involved students exploring and expanding upon their visual literacies by analyzing and interrogating the famous image of Florence Owens Thompson, better known as "Migrant Mother." Facilitating these lessons and the discussions they inspired truly improved my confidence as a teacher, and further illustrated the ways in which dialogic classrooms engage all parties involved in learning, myself definitely, definitely included.
pcw_lesson_plan_10_25.pptx | |
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pcw_lesson_plan_11_1_13.pptx | |
File Size: | 281 kb |
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La Francophonie Lesson Plan
As a teaching assistant for Michigan State University's LEAF program- a curriculum in which two MSU professors, my colleagues, teach French to talented and gifted high school students from the surrounding Lansing area- every Sunday, I lead a lab in which I both tutor students in French grammar, and expand upon the topics that they are studying in their regular classroom time. For example, the following PowerPoint is one such lesson, in which the students and I built upon our definitions surrounding the notion of la francophonie, the concept of a shared French culture across all French speaking nations around the world.
leaf_program_lesson_plan-_la_francophonie.pptx | |
File Size: | 168 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Romeo and Juliet Unit Plan
As a part of my senior seminar teaching course, I worked diligently with one of my peers, Chelsea Edwards, to construct a thematic, four-week unit plan on Shakespeare's classic, timeless, and commonly taught play, Romeo and Juliet. Our unit is complete with objectives, activities, and assessments, and revolves around the paralleled interconnections between the binaries of love and hate, and right and wrong that the Bard continuously unravels himself throughout the play. Each of these lessons aims to engage students in complicating and grappling with these tropes while also motivating them to consider the ways in which the text relates to their own lives. Our hope in doing so is not only to remove the fear that often surrounds reading Shakespeare's work, but also to entice students to be interested and engaged in reading the renowned play. Our aim in doing so, then, is to bring Shakespeare and his universal themes to life.
rj_unit_plan.xlsx | |
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Argumentative Writing Unit Plan
Argumentative writing is an essential skill that I fervently believe deserves a central place in every English language arts classroom. As such, I have developed a comprehensive unit plan scaffolding students in ways that aim to teach them not only the process and importance of argumentative writing, but its relevance in our society today through an analysis of stereotyping and oppression in Disney movies-- a subject that will undoubtedly capture and maintain students' attention and foster active engagement.
Attached is a calendar detailing the daily scaffolding activities over the course of this 4-week unit that prepare students for the summative assessment, an assignment sheet introducing the summative assessment--both a written letter to the president of the Walt Disney Corporation, Andy Bird, addressing the oppression in Disney films and offering suggestions to eliminate these forms of oppression, as well as a recorded version of a re-imagined, re-scripted scene from a particular Disney film illustrating the ways in which oppression can in fact be eliminated, to be submitted along with the letter, and finally, two rubrics assessing both the re-written scene, as well as the formal letter to the current head of the Walt Disney Corporation.
Attached is a calendar detailing the daily scaffolding activities over the course of this 4-week unit that prepare students for the summative assessment, an assignment sheet introducing the summative assessment--both a written letter to the president of the Walt Disney Corporation, Andy Bird, addressing the oppression in Disney films and offering suggestions to eliminate these forms of oppression, as well as a recorded version of a re-imagined, re-scripted scene from a particular Disney film illustrating the ways in which oppression can in fact be eliminated, to be submitted along with the letter, and finally, two rubrics assessing both the re-written scene, as well as the formal letter to the current head of the Walt Disney Corporation.
te_408_the_wonderful_world_of_disney_argumentative_unit_plan_calendar-weebly.docx | |
File Size: | 150 kb |
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te_408_argumentative_unit_plan_student_handout--weebly.docx | |
File Size: | 139 kb |
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te_408_argumentative_unit_plan_rubrics.xlsx | |
File Size: | 52 kb |
File Type: | xlsx |
Night By: Elie Wiesel Summative Assessment
Below you will find both an assignment sheet, as well as a sample version of the visual argument summative assessment I created in correspondence with Elie Wiesel's chilling autobiography, Night, asking students to research a historical or current event following the tragic events of the Holocaust and present them through a visual modality (PowerPoint, Prezi, iMovie, etc.) in response to the thought-provoking and extremely important question prompted by the author himself: "has the world remained silent since the Holocaust?"
te_408_lit_circle_project_teaching_artifact_assignment_sheet.docx | |
File Size: | 145 kb |
File Type: | docx |
te_408_lit_circle_artifact__has_the_world_remained_silent | |
File Size: | 3046 kb |
File Type: | te 408 lit circle artifact_ has the world remained silent |