Lesson Plan~The Academy for Technology & the Classics~Cultivating Fearless Learners

Instructors name:
Ayers

Course/Grade:
Grade 11 AP Language and Composition

Week of:

Unit Name:

10/12 10/16

The Tyranny of the Majority

(1A)*Essential

Question(s):
(1A/1B) Connections (prior/future learning):
What is meant by the tyranny of the majority? What Students will connect with past experience analyzing nonflaws are present in a democratic system of
fiction work.
governance? What different forms of democracy might
be practiced?
(1A) Common Core/State Standards:
W.11-12; RI.11-12; SL.11-12
(1E) Other considerations (modifications,
(1D) Resources/Materials:
accommodations, acceleration, ELL, etc.
Norton Reader
All accommodations and modifications indicated in
student IEPs will be followed. Any needs of ELL
students (modification of assignment length,
modification of assignment complexity, modification of
source reading, etc.) will be implemented.
(1F) Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes? What happens
when students understand and when they dont understand?
Daily: direct observation
This Week: Written precis/multiple choice items/timed essay/Socratic dialogue
MONDAY
For Wednesday: Precis on The Tyranny of the Majority is
due.
Second drafts of essays with editing sheets are due.
For Friday: Read The Tyranny of the Majority in the
Norton Reader.
Learning Target: Students will show improved skills
in multiple choice testing by completing AP MC items.
(1C)

Do Now: Please read multiple choice handout and

prepare to respond to questions.
(1C)

After discussing a handout that gives advice about

scoring high on the multiple choice exam, students will
read a selection from a released AP exam and answer the
questions associated with it.

(1F)Embedded Formative Assessment: MC items

(1B)Closing Activity: As a whole class, we will discuss
what we learned today and how we will use these skills
in the future.

TUESDAY
(1C) Learning Target: Students will show improved skills
in multiple choice testing by completing AP MC items.
Do Now: What percentage of these items do you feel
confident about? What percentage do you have serious
doubts about?
(1C)

(1F)Embedded Formative Assessment: MC items

(1B)Closing Activity: As a whole class, we will discuss
what we learned today and how we will use these skills
in the future.

In table groups, students will offer their answers to the

MC items and debate the correct answers. Correct
answers will be provided by the instructor at the end of
class.
WEDNESDAY

PSAT Testing no ordinary instruction

THURSDAY
(1C) Learning Target: Students will show improvement in
essay writing by completing an FRQ timed writing.
Do Now: Please take out materials and prepare for
an FRQ timed essay.

(1F)Embedded Formative Assessment:

(1B)Closing Activity:

(1F)Embedded Formative Assessment: Timed essay

(1C)

(1B)Closing

FRIDAY
(1C) Learning Target: Students will improve their skills in
speaking and listening. They will show their learning by
engaging in Socratic dialogue.

(1F)Embedded Formative Assessment: Observation of

oral discussion and written notes

Do Now: Please produce the opening question(s) you

have prepared for todays discussion. Be ready to share
it with the class and explain why this particular question
is important to you and important for us to explore.
(1C)

Activity: As a whole class, we will discuss

what we learned today and how we will use these skills
in the future.

(1B)Closing

Activity: Students will briefly discuss high

points and areas of growth in the Socratic dialogue.

Socratic dialogue: The Tyranny of the Majority

*Refers to NMTEACH Rubric:
1A-Demonstrating knowledge of content
1B-Designing coherent instruction
1C-Setting Instructional outcomes
1D-Demonstrating knowledge of resources
1E-Demonstrating knowledge of students
1F-Designing student assessment

Formative Assessment includes, but is not limited to:

Exit tickets, white board response, consensagrams, red/green cards, formal or
informal student conferences, sticky note assessment.