Ms.+Hofeldt's+Lesson+Plan

Ms. Hofeldt Short Story Unit Plan Bargain by A.B.Guthrie – Focus on Plot Common Core Standards: - 2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text - 3 Analyze how particular elements of a story interact Objectives: - Students will define plot when used in a short story. - Students will label parts of plot development to understand necessary elements for constructing a plot. - Students will identify rising action, climax, and falling action in the story. - <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Students will construct their own idea of a climax and therefore change the falling action of the story, to prepare for the final assessment. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Reading Reason: Reading makes you a better writer. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bell Work: (5 minutes) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Students will correct the sentence “yay I don’t have homework after school Kate said. wow that would be nice sighed Jim.” Students will be asked to correct the interjections and quotation errors. Short discussion of corrections will be led by the instructor after corrections are made. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Activity 1: (5-10 minutes) <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The instructor will have ‘Plot’ written on the board and will ask for volunteers to define plot. <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ideas/definitions from the students will be written on the board around the word plot. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Activity 2: (25 minutes) <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The students will all turn to the short story and will be instructed to read in groups of two (they can pick their own groups), taking turns by paragraphs. <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The students will be instructed to place a sticky note near events that could contribute to plot. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Activity 3: (10-15 minutes) <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When finished reading, students will return to their desks. <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The instructor will have a ‘plot chart’ written out on the board for them. (An example is attached) <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The instructor will ask students to volunteer ideas for the rising action of the story. Then the students will share ideas for the climax and the falling action. <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The instructor will record answers all along the plot chart, and will discuss the events as they are written down. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Activity 4: (15-20 minutes) <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Students will then be asked to pretend they are the author of “Bargain.” As the author, they are to make a different climax of the story and therefore change the falling action, or the ending of the story. **Should reading the short story take a much greater amount of time, students could be asked to only change the climax of the story, rather than both the climax and falling action/conclusion.** <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Students will be informed they can write out their ideas using a plot chart and then write the story out in paragraph form as the author already has. <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Students will also be asked to include at least two interjections into their stories. <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If time permits at the end of the class period students will be asked to share their changes to the story. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Homework: <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Students will be asked to complete their plot changes and turn them in the following day if they are not able to finish during class. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Assessment: <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Students will receive six points for the activity. Three points will be given for making a change of the climactic event. Three points will be given for changing the falling action of the story accordingly. Example Plot Chart:

(This does not show up on Wikispaces so if you'd like a copy let me know.) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">



<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Example Rubric:
 * **Change of Climax** ||
 * 3 ||  2  ||  1  ||
 * Original change of climax clearly stated on plot chart __and__ present in written story ||  Original change of climax stated on plot chart __or__ present in written story  ||  Climax change made but lacks originality or is unclear  ||
 * **Change of Falling Action/Conclusion** ||
 * 3 ||  2  ||  1  ||
 * Falling action __and__ conclusion make sense following new climax of story ||  Falling action __or__ conclusion changed to match new climax  ||  Falling action and conclusion are changed but do not connect with new climax  ||