AEN Lesson Plan Template

Name
Lesson #, Lesson Title
Date (including day of
week)
Grade Level & Class Title
Period or Block (# of
minutes)

Drusilla Relyea
Eyes on the Prize
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
English 12
40 min

Instructional Context
o What do I know about my students that will inform this lesson?
Are there any particular student strengths, interests, background
needs related to the lesson?
This group of students are a minimally diverse group of students. Most
come from the same social and economic background with this being a
small district. There are a few students with IEPs, but none that
require additional support in English.
o How does this lesson connect with and build on the previous
lessons? What prior knowledge have students acquired?
The class has been reading Brown Girl Dreaming. This lesson will help
the students to visualize the concepts discussed in that work.
Essential Question(s)
o Which of your essential questions is/are relevant to this lesson
plan?
How does the author use a range of design choices to portray his/her
perspective on how prejudice worked during the Civil Rights
Movement?
Central Focus
o What is the central focus for the content in the learning
segment?
The students will analyze the media to determine the writer's
prejudice.
Standards
o List Common Core standards addressed in the lesson.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.6
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is
particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power,
persuasiveness or beauty of the text.
Learning Objectives and Assessments
List the specific content learning objectives for the lesson. What do
I want my students to know, understand and do? How will I assess
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these objectives?
Learning Objectives (Students will
be able to)
Long-term objectives/unit objectives

Students will be able to determine

an author's purpose and
prejudices and point of view
regarding prejudice and where it
comes from and how it works.
Short-term objectives

Assessments (Informal and/or

Formal)
Informal assessments
Exit slips

Formal assessments

Students will be able to

None for this lesson
understand the use of imagery for
persuasion.
Students will be able to determine
the author's purpose through the
use of color.
Academic Language
o List the academic language function for this lesson.
o Analyze, Interpret
Academic language demands
(e.g. vocabulary, syntax,
discourse)

Instructional supports to help

students use the language
function and address language
demands.

Perspective
Composition
Prejudice
Production/design processes
Music choices

Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks (Procedures & Timelines)

o Launch/HookHow will you start the lesson to engage and
motivate students in learning?
Time
Instructional Strategies/Learning
Rationale/Research &
Tasks/Questions to Ask
Theory
5 mins Students will be asked, What do
This allows students
you know about the Civil Rights
to be engaged and
Movement?
invested in the
learning. It also helps
the teacher to gage
what the students
already know and
what misconceptions
or biases the students
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may have.
o Middle of the lessonWhat will you do to engage students in
developing understanding of the lesson objectives?
Time
Instructional Strategies/Learning
Rationale/Research &
Tasks/Questions to Ask
Theory
10
Play the beginning section of Eyes
This video will give
mins
on the Prize up to where the
students a view of the
Awakening Section begins. Ask the Civil Rights Movement
students to consider the following
from individuals with
questions as they watch.
first-hand experience.
- What is the effect of
This activity will help
contrasting the color segments them to evaluate the
against the black and white
bias and purpose
segments?
behind a publication
- Who is being depicted as
leading to overall
committing the violence?
better critical thinking
- What is the effect of having
skills.
the singing in the background
of the narration? What are
they singing? How does that
affect the overall message?
5 mins

Allow students to finish writing their

ideas down after viewing this
segment.

Students may need a

few more minutes to
finish writing their
ideas down. The
teacher should allow
them to get their
ideas so they dont
forget them.
15
Class discussion of answers to the
The students will
mins
questions and how the producer
probably have
used the different techniques to
different thoughts and
make his argument. Provide
opinions, so having a
students with the chart of terms.
class discussion will
- Is this similar to what is in the
help the students to
news now?
think about the video
from different
perspectives.
o Closing the lessonHow will you end the lesson?
Time
Instructional Strategies/Learning
Rationale/Research &
Tasks/Questions to Ask
Theory
5 mins Exit ticket Write what the
By having the
argument is and what makes you
students write this
think that using evidence from the
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video.

be able to gage if the

students understood
the lesson.

Materials and Resources

o Attach the handouts, notes, books, and other materials you will
need for the lesson.
Differentiation/Planned Support For Students
How will you differentiate your instruction to connect with a wide
variety of learners? What strategies will you implement for
responding to individual students or groups of students with similar
learning styles, needs, IEPs or 504, ELL? What alternative
approaches do you have for teaching content to these students?
This lesson presents the information is a variety of formats
(audio, visually, written), so each student is able to access the
information that is given.
How will you support students with gaps in their prior knowledge?
What strategies will you implement for responding to common
errors and misunderstandings? What alternative approaches do you
have for teaching content if you need it?
Analysis of your teaching
o What worked? What did not? For whom? Why?
o Based on your planned assessment, describe the varying levels
of achievement and student learning in this lesson:
Needs work
On target
Exemplary
o Based on the evidence from your assessment, how would you
improve this lesson?