OUR LADY QUEEN OF MARTYRS SCHOOL WEEKLY LESSON PLAN
Teacher’s Name__Ms. Saville____________________ Subject ______ELA_________________________________ Grade _______4______________
Week of ____1/27 to 1/31__________________________ Unit ____4_______ Week____1_______
Unit Title__Animals Are Characters Too: Characters Who Gallop, Bark, and Squeak_________________________Essential Question_How are animals portrayed in literature?
Resources: A Book of Nonsense by Norman Lear
| CCSS Code e.g. RL.K.5 | OUTCOMES (Lesson Focus) What will the students know or be able to do at the end of the lesson? | ASSESSMENT How will the students demonstrate that they have accomplished the desired outcome? Please state the question that will be asked during your formative assessment. | STRATEGIES In what activities will the students be engaged to accomplish the desired outcome? Please list in the order that you will implement. | 3 HOTS QUESTIONS e.g. one should be on knowledge, one on application, and one on synthesis or evaluation. |
Mon
| RL4.5 | Students identify the poetic techniques used in Lear’s limericks
| Students label the common rhyme scheme and meter in the limericks.
| Students create a T chart to list the poetic techniques and examples. | What is unique in how the animals are portrayed in limericks? How does the illustrator create imaginative pictures? |
Tues
| RL4.5 | Students explain the major differences between poems, drama, and poems.
| Students identify the correct genre based on the structural elements describe
| Students compare and contrast the three genres based on the e-handbook lesson onhttp://mhschool.com/lead_21/grade4/ccslh_g4_rl_1_2c.html.
| Which do you think is the most difficult to compose? Why? |
Wed
| RL4.6 | Students compare/contrast the point of view from different stories in first- and third- person narrations. | Students answer follow-up questions to reading passages in Common Core Progress pp. 115, 117, 121 | Students compare a third- person story of historical fiction with a first- person journal entry and anwer comprehension questions. | How do the features of prose, poetry, and drama affect how stories are told? |
Thurs
| RL4.6 | Students create a Venn diagram based on comparing the two previously read stories. | Students answer the follow-up questions in Common Core Progress pp. 122-123 | Students describe the points of view in the journal entries and then give examples using details to show how these stories are told in different ways. | How did the way the story was told affect what you learned about the topic? |
Fri
| W4.1 | Students explain structural elements in a drama based on reading passage. | Students answer the follow-up questions to reading passage in Common Core Progress pp. 109 & 111. | Students cite evidence in the passages of setting, stage directions, dialogue.Students answer comprehension questions.
| Which character do you think is most important and why? How could you turn this drama into a poem? |
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| Bloom’s Taxonomy (HOTS Questions) -Knowledge -Comprehension -Application -Analysis -Synthesis -Evaluation | School Grade Weighting Scale: Tests (40%): Quizzes (20%): Classwork/ Participation (15%): Homework (5%): Projects/ Portfolios (20%):
| Vocabulary words for week: 1. limerick 6.T chart 2. narration 7.rhymr scheme 3. character traits 8.meter 4. first - person 9.simile 5. third - person 10.metapor | Use of Technology: ____ Smartboard ____ Student Response System |